Samsung to Show Off 2560-by-1600, 10.1-Inch Display

The original Samsung Extragalactic nebula Tab

Samsung will unveil a 10.1-inch tablet display next week with 2560-by-1600 closure that draws 40 pct to a lesser extent power than older RGB stripe LCD screens. The new PenTile WQXGA display has double the resoluteness found in the forthcoming Samsung Beetleweed Tab 10.1 and has much five times as many total pixels equally the iPad's 1024-by-768 display.

Samsung and Nouvoyance (the company behind PenTile applied science) bequeath appearance the new display during the SID Display Calendar week 2020 International Symposium in Los Angeles from English hawthorn 17-19.

Samsung says tablet manufacturers will stimulate access to the new display later this class. The troupe is not saying whether any tablet makers have already signed up to use the newborn show, Beaver State if Samsung plans to use it in the succeeding version of its Samsung Galaxy Tab devices.

Intelligent for iPad 3?

Many critics and online pundits are wondering whether the new pad of paper display is destined for the adjacent iteration of Apple's iPad. Apple introduced a high resolution screen with the iPhone 4, and almost Malus pumila watchers expect the company to come after suit with the next iPad.

Earlier in the year, there were rumors that iPad 3 might have a 2048-by-1536 display — two-base hit the resolution of the iPad and iPad 2.

LG's AH-IPS

But Samsung won't be the only company showing off late displays during SID. LG, the current senior supplier of iPad displays, plans to evince off a new line of civilised high performance in-plane switching (AH-IPS) displays, including an iPad-sorted 9.7-inch panel.

LG doesn't specify what the resolution of its parvenu displays will be new than to say they are 1.5 to 2 times the resolution of typic LCD panels. LG also says the AH-IPS displays ingest "a greater count of pixels than the PPI that can be recognized by the human eye at a typical distance." Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the Sami thing when he get-go introduced the iPhone 4's retina display utmost June.

LG also says its new displays wish have lower power pulmonary tuberculosis and will live an "ideal" display to use alfresco, something you cannot say for the current iPad crop.

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