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Picked up the iPad mini today
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1466092" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Agreed. Also the size of one's hands and the way it's being held are factors.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I suspect the iPad mini would be well-suited for children. The narrower bezel shouldn't be as much a negative factor, and the reduced weight would be a plus.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Going back to my "proposals", if they simply widened the bezel to the point that it'd be a 16:9 ratio as-is, you'd have a resolution of 1024x576. At the aspect of the Nexus 7 (which is a littler wider than 16:9), it'd have to be 1024x640. Compared to the Nexus 7 at 1280x800, that's clearly a poorer screen and I have little doubt I'd notice that.</p><p></p><p>If they jacked up the pixel density as I "propose" to make it 1364x768 at 16:9, it'd be a closer match to the Nexus 7 and very superior to the alternative of 1024x576. Let's see... that'd be 1,047,552 pixels vs 589,824 pixels. That'd make a PPI of about 290 if I'm not mistaken, which would put it fairly superior to the Nexus 7. Since I really doubt a "proper" Retina display is going to come any time in the next few years for the iPad mini, re-doing the display in this manner makes more sense. The available hardware can easily accommodate that now and eliminate a very real disadvantage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1466092, member: 38864"] Agreed. Also the size of one's hands and the way it's being held are factors. EDIT: I suspect the iPad mini would be well-suited for children. The narrower bezel shouldn't be as much a negative factor, and the reduced weight would be a plus. Going back to my "proposals", if they simply widened the bezel to the point that it'd be a 16:9 ratio as-is, you'd have a resolution of 1024x576. At the aspect of the Nexus 7 (which is a littler wider than 16:9), it'd have to be 1024x640. Compared to the Nexus 7 at 1280x800, that's clearly a poorer screen and I have little doubt I'd notice that. If they jacked up the pixel density as I "propose" to make it 1364x768 at 16:9, it'd be a closer match to the Nexus 7 and very superior to the alternative of 1024x576. Let's see... that'd be 1,047,552 pixels vs 589,824 pixels. That'd make a PPI of about 290 if I'm not mistaken, which would put it fairly superior to the Nexus 7. Since I really doubt a "proper" Retina display is going to come any time in the next few years for the iPad mini, re-doing the display in this manner makes more sense. The available hardware can easily accommodate that now and eliminate a very real disadvantage. [/QUOTE]
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