Samsung gazed into its crystal ball today, and what did it see? The pixel density of tablet screens drastically increasing. Yes, while Apple would possibly not have managed to cram a screen into the iPad 2 worthy of the Retina moniker, it feels like Samsung might be engaged on just this kind of thing, because the company projects that it’s going to have tablet displays with 300 to 400 pixel-per-inch resolutions by 2015. Presently, the Samsung Galaxy Tab has a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 panel, which translates to simply about 170ppi, but Samsung means that tablets of the very same size might stretch way past 1080p desktop resolutions as pixel density increases, and yet still manage a decent 8 to ten hours of battery life. Samsung also said that while it’s still waiting to work out if consumers adopt stereoscopic 3D, it’d be drawn to joining the throng, perhaps bringing a glasses-free tablet display to market within the years yet to come. Curious what else the long run might hold, in accordance with Samsung? Take a peek at our gallery below.
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