![]() It's immediately noticeable that everything has adopted a sharper, glossier appearance, and a screen of text looks so crisp that you'll struggle not to read it. But when you see this kind of high-resolution display on the larger scale of the iPad, somehow the quality has far more impact. If you've seen the Retina Display found on recent models of iPhone and iPod Touch, you'll have some idea of what to expect. With a resolution of 264 pixels per inch, you really struggle to notice individual pixels, and, along with increased colour saturation, the result is a display that's simply gorgeous. The Retina Display manages to pack four pixels into the space where there was previously one, so the 1024x768 resolution found on the original iPads becomes 2048x1536 on the new iPad. ![]() Perhaps the stand-out feature of the new iPad is the Retina Display, which brings the high-resolution screen technology first seen in the iPhone 4 to a tablet device. However, I was pleased to find that Apple's Smart Cover still performs its job admirably, despite the jarring aesthetic conundrum of using a year-old cover with a brand-new device. And, like trying to don a shirt you purchased a year ago, it also means that not all iPad accessories will necessarily fit as snugly as they once did, if at all. This difference is slight numerically, but more noticeable in your hands than the measurements would suggest. In fact, breaking with tradition, Apple's latest product has the rare attributes of being slightly thicker and slightly heavier than the one which came before it. Unlike the iPad 2, whose enclosure had evolved to make a svelte product even more slender and attractive, the new iPad is nearly identical to its predecessor. Apple's latest model, which, following on from the iPad 2, is logically called the iPad, was announced on March 7th and released into the wild less than two weeks later. ![]() Yet in the span of two short years - and three iPads later - there are now few people anywhere who do not know about the iPad. At the beginning of 2010, few people outside of Apple knew about the iPad.
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