![]() The Retina display is the latest step in Apple's plan to make technology disappear. Is the Retina display a real step forward, or does it just give Apple a few numbers to annoy the competition with? We think it's the former. Does it matter? Many tech specs don't matter much: on paper the iPad is often trounced by rival devices with more horsepower, more memory or an extra bit to plug things into, and yet we all know it's the best tablet money can buy. ![]() On paper, then, the new iPad has the best display around. In fact, with some minor calibration tweaks the new iPad would qualify as a studio reference monitor." The new iPad is "most likely better and more accurate than any display you own, unless it's a calibrated professional display. According to Dr Raymond Soneira, president of display calibration experts DisplayMate Technologies, the new display has better colour saturation too: "a virtually perfect 99% of the Standard Colour Gamut… are 'more vibrant' but not excessively so or gaudy like some existing OLED displays." The display isn't just better in terms of pixels. Full HD in a tablet is pretty impressive, but at 224 pixels per inch it's still a considerable way behind the iPad - and the iPad is shipping now, not at some unspecified point in the future. The new iPad's display is miles better than not just today's rival tablets, but tomorrow's: current Android tablets typically run 1280x800 displays, and the forthcoming full-HD tablets from the likes of Lenovo and Asus run at the same resolution as HD TVs, 1920x1080. That means the iPad has more pixels than a 1080p high-definition television, which maxes out at 1920x1080. The resolution is twice that of the iPad 2: it's running 2048x1536, and the iPad 2 runs 1024x768. We think it is: in everyday use, the new iPad's screen is as crisp and as clear as our iPhone 4's, with no noticeable jaggies - or at least, none in apps that have been updated to take advantage of the new iPad's extra pixels.
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