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Alan_Peery
2010-01-27 , 21:17
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The two biggest disappointments were lack of multi-tasking (soon to be fixed by jailbreaking), and low screen resolution. The iPad is only 1024x768 (
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
).
They're also doing something interesting with the iPhone screen upscaling. During the presenation Steve Jobs mentioned "going to 2X size being full screen. The iPhone's native resolution is 480x320 (
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/hom...co=MTAyNTQzMTI
), which is not half of the iPad's resolution. I wonder if they're blanking the outside edges, or if they're doing the equivalent of anti-aliasing the iPhone display upwards...
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