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Samsung will launch an HD tablet next year
KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung will launch a high definition Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) tablet next year.
In a bid to trump its major rival Apple, Samsung will launch an 11.6in tablet that will be unveiled at next year's Mobile World Congress in February. If we believe the Boy Genius Report 'trusted source', the device will have 2560x1600 resolution and a 16:10 aspect ratio.
Crunch the numbers and you get a mouth watering pixel density of 260ppi, almost double the 132ppi of the Apple Ipad 2. Unsurprisingly the tablet will run Android 4.0 ICS but won't be much bigger than the Galaxy Tab 10.1in due to a thinner bezel.
To outdo the fruit themed firm further, the Samsung HD tablet will use the firm's own Exynos 5250 2GHz dual-core processor based on the ARM Cortex A15 design. However, Apple's upcoming A6 chip apparently will be similar to this.
Like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone the tablet will use near field communication (NFC) technology and the Android Beam feature for wireless content transfer. It will also have some kind of wireless docking mode for tasks such as gaming on TVs, which sounds similar to digital living network alliance (DLNA) technology.
How much of this is true we don't know, but it certainly sounds interesting. The tablet rivalry between Samsung and Apple looks set to continue into 2012. We're certainly intrigued as to what Samsung will come up with in this tablet to avoid further legal challenges from Apple. µ
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According to digitimes (i would say better source)
The market expect Apple to launch a 9.7-inch new iPad with a display resolution of 2048 by 1536 and non-iPad vendors will make 10.1-inch models with a resolution of 1920 by 1200. Also the `average` resolution of tablet screens will reach 200ppi (pixels per inch)
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What is the point of anything higher than 1920 by 1200 on a small screen? rasing the PPI would be more important i would of thought.
Fonts in portrait look pretty ropey on my 1280x800 tablet in comparison to landscape.
I guess this is because of the subpixel font rendering.
These higher resolutions are going to largely sort this out.
You have to read this:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/
The you will understand why they have to go 2560x1600!
for 11 inch tablet 1280x720 is more than enough. for tablets 4:3 aspect ratio is even better. i would go for 1280x960