Why dont Samsung tablets have "retina" display? (They make the new iPads display)

Rroff said:
Your very defensive of apple. It might be pentile but its a big step up from previous pentile displays and pretty decent. Granted there are some thing where it would fall short in tablet functionality i.e. it wouldn't match a good table for showing off your photo album but its still pretty capable when it comes to most tablet uses like internet browsing, bit of light desktop publishing, etc.
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The Galaxy Note is the ******* child of Smartphone and Tablet. Not big enough to actually be useable as a tablet and far too large to be of any use as a phone. I've seen one in the wild (as in not in a shop) and it looks stupid as a phone.

The screen is OK but not even close to what is in the iPhone 4S and not even in the same league as the new iPad.
 
LordSplodge said:
The Galaxy Note is the ******* child of Smartphone and Tablet. Not big enough to actually be useable as a tablet and far too large to be of any use as a phone. I've seen one in the wild (as in not in a shop) and it looks stupid as a phone.

The screen is OK but not even close to what is in the iPhone 4S and not even in the same league as the new iPad.
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If you have real man hands it's perfect as a phone. And my hands are almost mole like in size lol
 
Having used both the iPad3 and 7.7, it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Pros for iPad:
Size, resolution, whites looking white

Pros for 7.7:
Portability, vibrancy, blacks looking black

Now colour accuracy is a big thing for IPS no doubt, but surely that only matters to graphic designers? I prefer how the colours pop in games and tv shows on my 7.7, even if they are more saturated (and you can control the vibrancy too).

It's down to preference, and personally the pros of the 7.7 were more relevant to me, even when ignoring OS and ecosystems.
 
estebanrey said:
People questioned the point of the iPad when it came out....
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So what? They questioned the iPhone when that came out as well. History says what happened in both cases.

A device that is neither phone nor tablet isn't going to have the same effect.

Flukester said:
If you have real man hands it's perfect as a phone.
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Rubbish. Even if you have Annsley Harriot size hands it's too big. However, unfortunately to compete with the iPhone Android handset makers have started a race to stuff the biggest screen in a phone.

krooton said:
Having used both the iPad3 and 7.7, it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Pros for iPad:
Size, resolution, whites looking white

Pros for 7.7:
Portability, vibrancy, blacks looking black
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I had to Google what the hell a 7.7 is. However as for colour reproduction well everybody should care, that's why Apple show photographs in the iPad advert.

Personally having used a 7" tablet they are too small and not really much more portable.

You also missed the biggest advantage of iOS and that's the App store ecosystem and iCloud. That's where Android falls down. I mean you can get better spec'd Android phones (not seen any tablets on par with the iPad 3 though) but without apps and slick integration between devices what is the point?
 
Im not a fanboi of either Android or iOS to me they are just computers and OS's. But having said that I do admit that I agree that I have yet to see an Android tablet to match the slickness of the iPad. Its like they are all desperately playing catchup and just not getting it yet.

Im not expert on OS' but I get a "messy vibe" from Android. All those different versions. This device runs ice cream that wont but runs gingerbread. Until they unify it under one umbrella and fill in the holes....maybe then it will give the Apple devices competition. Not saying Android is trash..far from it. Ive messed with my friends HTC phones and its a slick OS no doubt...but they still have work to do.
 
KatanaDV20 said:
Im not a fanboi of either Android or iOS to me they are just computers and OS's. But having said that I do admit that I agree that I have yet to see an Android tablet to match the slickness of the iPad. Its like they are all desperately playing catchup and just not getting it yet.
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Spot on really. The rigid control over iOS and the Apps that run on it is why the iOS experience is so much better (to most people) than the fragmented Android experience. Just look at the difficulty getting Instagram to run on Android.

Combine this with a very slick cloud inteace between your iOS devices and OS X and you have a combination that is difficult for competitors to match.

In my opinion Android manufacturers need to stop this race to put bigger CPUs and larger screens in the phones and concentrate on matching Apples end user experience. Now this may mean locking Android down and having a more strict app submission routine and that's going to annoy the tinkerers but that's what most people want. Apps and devices that work and sync.

The soup-to-nuts approach from Apple of iTunes, iCloud, OS X and iOS is a hard thing to match and Apple have a big head start.

My last Android phone a Nexus One was a nice phone, and 2.3 was a nice OS when it hadn't been skinned to death by **** like what HTC et al out on but there was far too much freedom on apps. Crappy apps running in the background ruined the battery or made the device run slow.

I've used a Galaxy Nexus and although ICS is nicer still than 2.3 the same problem exists. The app experience is horrendous and a very standalone experience. Good for tinkering though but I, like many others, don't want to tinker with our smartphones or tablets.
 
Sefirosu said:
Yeah - a load of greedy ****wits bought something pointless.
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Yeah that's right. The phenomenal success of the iPhone and iPad and the massive growth of copycat devices is all down to a bunch of well off people buying playthings.

You might want to pull your head out of the sand and have a look at the real world.
 
I may be wrong but Im starting to wonder if part of the deal with Samsung making these hi-rez Retina displays for iPad was to agree that THEY (Samsung) would not use the Retina in one of their own tablets?

Is that feasible?...or does that sound retarded. The two companies are at each others throats over the tablet form factor - but Samsung makes screens for Apples iPads. Funny world...yup :D
 
Energize said:
Most people in my experience can see the flicker of a 60hz crt monitor.
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yes i can too but i think that is where the statistic comes from.

i'm sure it's actually based around fluorescent lighting not monitors though.

remember though energize most people you know will be below the average age so have good eyesight.
 
Retina is simply a trademark. Put lots of pixels in a tight space and according to Apple, it's "Retina", but according to someone with knowledge on the subject it is simply a "high pixel density display".

This is the same as any trademark.

For example; If Panasonic implemented frame interpolation in a TV set and listed it in the specifications as "SMART DEINTERLACE PRO2™", that's simply what Panasonic are marketing frame interpolation as. To people with knowledge of video technology it's still simply frame interpolation, but to the general consumer, it's "OMG SMART DEINTERLACE PRO2 WTFBBQ™".

All Apple has done is squash lots of pixels in a small space, thought of a cool buzzword to do with optics (Retina), trademarked it, and used it to market their product. (http://www.apple.com/legal/trademark/appletmlist.html)

The point I'm trying to make is that asking why Samsung doesn't have Retina display is like asking why KFC don't sell McNuggets.
 
My wife has the latest iPad. I came to the conclusion that it is called retina display because the screen is ridiculously reflective you can almost see your retina in it. Other than that films look nice on it, but it's in no way breathtaking like Apple and their fans claim.
 
our latest laptops come with an intel processor and a whopping 2 gig ram so you can watch tv and do complex folding at home AT THE SAME TIME - remember these type of ads which had me shouting, "Yes but what about the graphics card" every time they came on.... lol

LIES the lot of it. I doubt anyone on these forums reads descriptions of products it's straight to the tech specs tab :D

Retina display pfft who cares look at them both in the shops and choose the one that doesn't give you headaches after 20 minutes ;)
 
LordSplodge said:
So what? They questioned the iPhone when that came out as well. History says what happened in both cases.

A device that is neither phone nor tablet isn't going to have the same effect.
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You are questioning the 'point' of the Galaxy Note. I am saying people questioned the 'point' of tablets before they came out (we already have notebooks etc).

Can you not make the link between them?
 
estebanrey said:
You are questioning the 'point' of the Galaxy Note. I am saying people questioned the 'point' of tablets before they came out (we already have notebooks etc).

Can you not make the link between them?
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I berated tablets when they first came out. I thought they were pointless, and by and large they were. Now the technology has progressed enough for them to actually be useful. :p
 
krooton said:
I berated tablets when they first came out. I thought they were pointless, and by and large they were. Now the technology has progressed enough for them to actually be useful. :p
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I don't think technology has progressed as such, I just think we've been further convinced that a computer's only real need is for social networking, buying music and books from the manufacturer's site and reading Wikipedia on.

I can't see me ever having a tablet because whilst I do all the above, a tablet doesn't do half the stuff I use my home PC for. And then it doesn't do much more than my smartphone does for what I use that for so a tablet fills a niche I don't have personally.
 
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