Anyone else sick of all of this on-again, off-again with the supposed Retina Display for the iPad 2? It’s like a consumer electronics rom-com. Of all of the many rumors we’ve been seeing about Apple’s second generation tablet, none–save, perhaps, for the incredibly likely FaceTimey front and rear facing camera–has been more rampant than the Retina Display, the tablet’s adoption of the iPhone 4’s incredibly high resolution (about 326 pixels an inch) display.
Such a display would be have to be 2048 by 1346, reasons Daring Fireball–double the size of iPad’s current display. The site also reasons, it turns out, that the feature just isn’t coming in the next version of the tablet. “I asked around,” writes the site,” and according to my sources, it is too good to be true: the iPad 2 does not have a retina display.”
The iPad 2 may, in fact, have an increased display resolution (from, say 1024 by 768 to, say, 1536 by 1152), but it won’t be a Retina Display, according to those aforementioned sources. The site also claims that anything but complete doubling, while not impossible, is also unlikely “for reasons pertaining to UI scaling math (the same reason that the iPhone display resolution didn’t increase incrementally)–but it’s worth noting that my sources only claim ‘no retina display,’ not that the resolution is unchanged. The ‘double or nothing’ line is my opinion, not information from any source.”
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