With the iPad 2 just hitting the market a few months ago, it should come as no surprise that the public just wants more and more and more. Now rumors of an iPad 3 have become more than just rumors and plenty of people are starting to turn their attention to what will actually be in these new devices. Apple moves quicker than most when it comes to improving their products and while there are a number of different new features that will most likely be included in the third iteration of the iPad, the one making the most news is the supposed screen resolution.
According to several different sources it appears that the screen resolution for the iPad 3 could actually be about twice what the resolution is currently. All of these rumors popped up because of a couple of people managing to get a look at the screen resolution settings of a Twitter framework – of all things – and that little tip has started a bit of a tidal wave of speculation.
While current screen resolution settings are currently sitting at a very respectable 768 x 1024 the framework of the Twitter app makes it appear as though the images will appear with dimensions of 1536 x 2048. This number of pixels would be unheard of on any of the existing tablet PCs and it is the main reason that there is so much speculation about what the new iPad 3 is going to be doing. While increasing the screen resolution to twice what it currently is may seem like quite a tall order, but it is actually not something that is completely unheard of, especially when dealing with Apple. When introducing the “Retina” display on the iPhone 4, Apple had to jack up the screen resolution of their phones from 480 x 320 to 960 x 640 with an increase of pixels of 326 per inch.
Interestingly, even doubling the resolution of the iPad 3 to 1536 x 2048 would fall short of the 300 ppi arena that is supposed to be the very highest resolution the human retina can process when held 10-12 inches away. If the iPad 3 were to sport a display of 2048 x 1536 it would technically be reaching 264 ppi compared to what is currently 132 ppi. Apple could then claim that the iPad 3 is sporting a retina display people tend to hold the iPad’s farther away from the face than people hold iPhones and iPods. Of course while the Twitter framework appears to be as official as anything is going to be until there is an actual release, the rest of this is quite a bit of guesswork as to what exactly the iPad 3 is actually going to be able to accomplish.
If you really want to see just how much speculation can get out of control, check out the recent reports of a Taiwanese newspaper that the iPad 3 is going to have an even higher resolution and pixel count than currently believed, up to five times more than what most people believe they will see.
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