On Mar 3, 6:25 pm, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > If the argument was that the iPad could > not support retina display because it would take too much graphics > power to push that many pixels then with a 9x increase in graphics > power could it have coped with higher res?
The problem is not the graphics power, the biggest problem is the screen: Nobody can produce the 30-40 million iPad 2 screens at 2048x1536 that Apple is projected to sell at acceptable yields and therefore at acceptable costs. Look at Samsung and their AMOLED smartphone screens for the Galaxy S. Now these are roughly one quarter of the iPad size, and Samsung sold about 6 million Galaxy S phones over six months. First HTC used AMOLED but had to switch to LCD because Samsung couldn't make enough of them. Then came the Galaxy Tab at half the screen size of the iPad - and it only used LCD. Now the Nexus S comes to Germany (in March, I believe) - and it's supposedly got an LCD screens instead of AMOLED (like it had in the U.S.) because Samsung still can't make enough screens (or rather enough at acceptable yields). Having four times the pixels would have also increased power consumption and reduced the graphics power increase quite a bit. So for all these reasons, Retina iPad screen has to wait until iPad 3. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
