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If you’ve been holding out for a iPad mini with a retina display, you won’t have to wait much longer. According to a statement by NPD DisplaySearch to CNET this morning, Apple will start mass producing Retina iPad minis later in the year, and as a bonus, it’ll have one of the highest tablet resolutions currently on the market.
According to Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, they’ll enter production around June or July. Shim also made sure to point out that Apple’s chief competitor Samsung won’t be involved in the creation of the new devices; instead, LG Display will be the largest supplier, followed by a number of other manufacturers.
“Samsung is currently not in the iPad mini and they won’t be in the next generation,” Shim said. “LGD is becoming a much bigger supplier than before.”
With a resolution of 2,048 x 1,526, the 7.9 inch Retina iPad mini will deliver roughly the same amount of pixels per inch as the iPhone 5, although with a greater pixel density. Shim said. Still, Shim expressed his concerns that differences between displays become indiscernible to the human eye around 300 PPI, but points out that Apple and Google both are on track to produce tablets with similar resolutions.
As MacRumors points out, this must be one of the new great products that Tim Cook said we’ll be seeing “”in the fall and across all of 2014.”
