Stories of an iPad retina display have been circling around since before the iPad 2. Fans were obviously disappointed upon its release due to the identical display and as such folks were a little more wary when the same rumor started cropping up regarding the upcoming iPad 3. Now it seems that the iPad 3 has finally received confirmation that it will come rocking a full-blown 2048 x 1536 retina display.
The confirmation comes from MacRumors, who have apparently managed to get a new iPad 3 display panel under a microscope and compared it against that of the iPad 2, finding the iPad 3 to have 4x the pixel density.
To avoid any confusion this news is regarding the full 9.7" iPad 3 expected for March and not the smaller 8 inch iPad that we've started hearing whispers of recently.
The relevation isn’t particularly shocking, but it’s definitely still welcome. Of course after offering no screen upgrade between the iPad and iPad 2 one would hope that Apple was seeking to address that this time round. Then, Apple being Apple, would most likely not be willing to settle for anything less than its precious retina display pixel density found on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S (that’s pixel density, not resolution).
Of course other rumors such as the iPad 3 sporting an A6 quad-core processor, 4G LTE, a larger battery and possibly new external design are still floating about. But for now at least it seems we have one less unconfirmed iPad 3 rumor to worry about.
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