Retina Display coming to Apple’s next iPad according to LG Display CEO

By on Jul 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Tablets July 22, 2011

Apple’s next-generation iPad will employ the company’s famous Retina Display according to LG Display CEO Young Soo Kwon. The Korea Times reported on Friday that Kwon let slip the news while speaking with reporters following LG Display’s second-quarter earnings report, which saw the manufacturer’s profit tumble 96%. “[Kwon] said more smartphone manufacturers will release new models employing LG’s “Retina Display’’ that has been used in iPhones and iPads,” The Korea Times’ report states. LG Display manufactures the current Retina Display found on Apple’s iPhone 4 handset. Earlier reports suggest Apple is preparing to launch an updated iPad in September alongside the iPhone 5. The new Retina Display-equipped iPad is expected by some to be a complimentary model, perhaps dubbed “iPad Pro,” rather than a replacement for the current iPad 2.

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  • Bringit

    Apple = win.  Again.

    • Anonymous

      This wont be the only tablet with a “retina” display. Samsung (among others like Hitachi) are CREATING their own high-res, 300+ DPI tablet display, but watch people bytch about them “copycatting” Apple again.

      • http://twitter.com/cdoruff Collin Doruff

        I dont think it’s possible to copy using a higher resolution, that’s just evolutionary.

      • Anonymous

        You tell that to everyone else in the coming months. People are under the false impression that Apple “innovated” high-res displays, as with some of their other “innovations”.

      • Anonymous

        Well, I don’t recall any other mobile devices featuring screens with the high of resolution. Call it what you will, but Apple has a habit of pushing the market forward.

      • Bringit

        But it will run Android.

      • Anonymous

        And?

      • Anonymous

        And there will be no barely any apps for it… Even months after Honeycomb was released.

      • Anonymous

        What makes you think they’re going to create 300+ DPI tablets? They haven’t done that with their phones yet and the iPhone 4 is over a year old now.

    • Awesome

      You=Dumbass

  • Anonymous

    Magical.

  • Bart Simpson

    Not cool if they really do an iPad update already.

    • Tony

      Can you blame them?  They same sheep that lined up when the iPad 2 launched are still going to get in line to buy this one two.

    • Anonymous

      Why? If you have an iPad 2 and really want the new one, you can just sell it for 90% of the original cost anyway, just like people who sold their base model iPad 1 for $450 right after the iPad 2 announcement.

      The resale value of Apple gear is crazy high.

      • joey

        sold their base model iPad 1 for $450,  that is so BS it’s not even funny. i had trouble getting rid of mine for $400.00. ended up selling it for $325.00 and it was 2 months old

  • http://twitter.com/cdoruff Collin Doruff

    I was under the impression that the retina display wasn’t necessary for something large like an iPad, and something you hold further from your face, like an iPad. I heard that from a number of sources a while back but now I can’t confirm it. If that is case, then I feel it’s unnecessary for Apple to put this display in their iPads and are doing it to give consumers a reason to buy a(nother) iPad. It’ll work, we know that, people will gobble that up if Steve says it’s better and the old iPad.
    And if it’s the case that the retina display is actually a needed improvement, why wasn’t it included in iPad 2?

    • Anonymous

      Slow upgrade iterations so you can keep buying all their stuff. Why give you everything you want in one upgrade?

      • http://twitter.com/cdoruff Collin Doruff

        Play fair with the consumer? This proves Apple doesn’t really care about their consumers, money is first on their agenda. 

      • Anonymous

        Apple going for the money isn’t a surprise. Any and all corporations do the same, just not as well as Apple.

      • Zac Caslin

        And all the other phone company’s care so much about you. Grow the fuck up is’t a business to make MONEY.

    • Anonymous

      Apple doesn’t like to include too much with each gen of device.  They have to save something so the Jobians feel it is worth upgrading less then 1 year after the fact. 

    • Anonymous

      Well, it wouldn’t need the same ppi as the iPhone 4 to be “retina” as it is farther away, but Apple would likely double the resolution to make apps scale easier.

    • Jefresh123

      The current display is the only thing keeping me from buying an iPad. After experiencing my iPhone 4′s retina display, I can’t use anything else on a regular basis without getting annoyed by the pixels.

  • http://twitter.com/myz06vette Mike Beauchamp

    And boom, just like that, Apple yanks the contract from LG for letting it slip early.

    That, or, it was a planned leak.

  • Apple!@!!

    I think that the only reason that people need to upgrade their iPad is to get the new Ice Cream Sandwich OS version (unless they are going to let people download it like they did with Lion on the Macbook).  I don’t think Retina Display is really needed, particularly with the iPad2s have AMOLED technology in them, which I think looks as good as Retina Display, if not better.  Does anyone else have experience with that?

    • Anonymous

      “I think that the only reason that people need to upgrade their iPad is to get the new Ice Cream Sandwich OS version”

      YEA!  All iPad users should upgrade to a tablet that will run Ice Cream Sandwich (but I think you got your wires crossed).

    • Zac Caslin

      AMOLED is nothing but bright over saturated colors. No wonder all the android kids love it.

  • Anonymous

    “Apple’s next-generation iPad will employ the company’s famous Retina Display”

    I think you meant to say: “LG’s famous Retina Display.”

    But I do wonder how they will pull off backlighting that large of a display (required with that type of display) and still keep battery life reasonable.  Unless they won’t be using IPS LCD tech for the iPad’s screen.

  • Applesucksfatties

    …………………..and the iSheep will flock to the Apple stores in masses.

  • http://twitter.com/aids_ftw aids_ftw

    This would be cool to use as an external display somehow.

    • Anonymous

      There’s an app for that.

  • Anonymous

    this should of been on the ipad2…just another reason why people shouldn’t have purchased it. what a joke, all the apple morons will flock to it, what a waste of cash

    • Anonymous

      The retina screen should have been on the iPad 2? Because all the other tablets had retina screens and the iPad 2 was overpriced.

    • Anonymous

      Yes. It SHOULD have been on the iPad 2. I am a huge android nut hugger. You know that. But atleast I have enough common fricken sense to know the details before commenting. FYI apple approached samsung and LG to produce the screen of course samsung and LG said for sure. Then apple said we need 80 million screens in 12 months starting feb 2011. Samsung and LG both replied “there ain’t nofreakingg way we can make that many!

  • Anonymous

    This is not a rumour.
    As crApple’s newly hired C.t.O. (Chief tAmpon Officer), I can confirm to you all that mAxiPad 3 will, indeed, be built with our highly advanced Retina display. To all those who bought mAxiPad 2 we can only say that we most sincerely appreciate your customer loyalty and, especially, your continued financial support while we endeavor to milk you for more money by way of product upgrades (that should have been included in previous models).

    We at crApple thank you for your patronage and the continued emptying of your iWallets.

    In gratitude,

    PAPINYC, CtO

    • Roflmao

      Hey CTO, I got a genuine idea for you that you can really use:

      You know how BGR posts stories on their website? Well, funny thing is, you actually have to click on the story to read more about it and comment. But see here’s the thing. If you hate something, a company for instance, then normal people with intelligent minds *don’t* click on the article written about said hated company. It’s really a flash of genius! How simple is that… Not clicking on an article? Who would’ve thought!

      • Anonymous

        I’m stupid. What can I say. tAmpon. MaxiPad. I like to go down on boys.

    • Anonymous

      Oh damn. Another tAmpon joke. I’m a fucking loser. Feel free to call me one when you see me.

  • Anonymous

    I hate how apple coins terms like retina display and then you people eat it up. Confuses the crap out of base consumers. Its a high res display, there’s nothing else to it!!!!

    • Anonymous

      Because other companies don’t use buzz words.

      Fact is, the retina screen is so good that you really can’t see the pixels. 

      • Anonymous

        I would like to also emphasize the fact that Samsung created the display. Lol @ apple

  • Roflmao

    Wait wait wait, “LG’s retina display”?
    I thought Retina display was apple’s idea…

  • Fatty Bunter

    I wish the effort developing this display had been put into something other than increasing the resolution.  

    I’d much rather have a display 100% readable (like the kindle) in the sunlight than a retina one.

  • Teck Speak

    if there is an iPad update in September, right after i just bought my iPad 2, i might punch a baby… and then i’ll buy the new one.

    http://www.teckspeak.com

    • Anonymous

      And this is why Apple has such huge profits.  Seriously I just bought a car last year now there’s a new model?  MUST BUY!!!!!11!

  • Anonymous

    I was molested my entire life. Forgive me for my lame tAmpon jokes.

  • zps

    i just cannot see apple releasing new iPad hardware this soon.

  • http://www.ipadappz.com iPadAppz

    It;s sound like the new iPad will really have the retina display

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