While it’s not officially Retina Display, the iPad 2 may come with a greatly enhanced screen resolution, if we believe the clues found in the new version of Apple’s iBooks. How does 2048X1536 sound?
The clues of what we can expect from the iPad 2 are becoming more specific (and believable) as the actual launch gets closer, and here’s one that could make the next gen tablet even better. Tucked inside version 1.1 of Apple’s iBooks app was some artwork indicating that screen resolution has been doubled for the iPad 2. As the photo shows, the app’s bookmark icon has four versions—iPhone, iPhone Retina Display, iPad and iPadx2. After this photo was leaked, Apple pulled the artwork from the versions of iBooks.
What did it reveal? That the iPad 2 will have a 2048×1536 resolution screen, a major jump from the 1024×768 of the current iPad. This would be one reason why Apple is upgrading the GPU, since it will have a higher resolution to drive.
