[subego]

Ouch.

[ajprice]

More stuff:

A proximity sensor similar to the iPhone sensor that turns off the screen when you put it up to your ear linked to screen unlock settings found in 4.3, so uncovering the iPad from a folding case like the Apple one unlocks it instead of pressing the home button and swiping the lock graphic.



AppleInsider | Proximity sensor on Apple's iPad 2 could bring auto screen lock, unlock

[imitchellg5]

Originally Posted by subego 

My gut feeling is that not only is Gruber right, he's being intentionally used by Apple as damage control.

Gruber might also be trying to get in a pissing match with Engadget, but I think that's a risky ploy with this sort of thing unless you know the outcome beforehand.

It's pretty clear that Gruber has done both before and at the same time, so who knows? Personally my argument would be that there really aren't any super-high res 9.7" screens, but then again there weren't such high res 3.5" screens when the iPhone 4 came out on the open market.

[Moose]

Originally Posted by ajprice 

Some say it depends on the distance from your eyes, so you hold a tablet further away than a phone, and the new iPad would be a Retina Display standard.

Those people are correct.

At the WWDC 2010 keynote, Steve said that the limit was "about 300dpi" at the 8-to-10" people usually hold their iPhones. It's simply not comfortable to hold an iPad that close for any length of time. I keep mine about two feet away most of the time.

The farther away the pixels are from your eyes, the bigger they need to be before you can see them as distinct objects. To argue otherwise is to argue against math.