One of the features rumoured to be included in the next generation iPad is Retina Display. Ever since iPhone 4 was released and the features of its new display captured the imagination, the users clamoured for a larger display with the same pixel density.
Now, professional groups as doctors and pilots explain how an iPad with a large Retina Display would improve their daily activities. For the pilots, a display with the highest resolution available would mean a device capable of showing very complex flight maps. “The charts for the in-route portion of a flight are still too complex to be displayed well on any electronic device,” declared Les Dorr, representative of FAA.
Kevin Hiatt, Flight Safety Foundation executive vice president, also supported this need. He highlighted the fact that the aptitude of using a device to navigate highly complex flight maps could be improved with the unprecedented resolution offered by a “Retina Display” iPad.
Doctors would benefit from an iPad with a display with a resolution four times better than the current model has. Medical imagine is an area where the US Food and Drug Administration approved the use of iPhone and iPads earlier this year. At the time, the subject was Mobile MIM, an app allowing radiological images to be transmitted to doctors on the move using appropriate Apple devices.
Unfortunately, analysts don’t seem to be too encouraging for the hopes expressed by pilots and doctors. Rumours say that the supply chain is not prepared for the mass production of the next generation iPad featuring a Retina Display.
