Update No. 1: Frank was kind enough to give us more pics demonstrating his findings. This time it is showing up in Newsstand, which is Apple made surely meaning something of substance.
A TechUnwrapped tipster just mentioned us saying that iOS 5 for iPad contains images double the resolution of the current ones. The current resolution of the iPad and iPad 2 is 1024 x 768. There were many rumors leading up to the iPad 2 release believing it would have a retina display, but many people believed it would be a waste or be too expensive. People saying the iPad 2 wouldn’t have a retina display were combatting statements saying the iPad 2 would in fact have a retina display using the iPad 3. Our tipster said images were two times the resolution coming in at 1,536 x 2,048. Our tipster said:
As I was going through the iOS SDK I came across some images in the new Twitter .framework. The resolution appears to be 1,536 x 2,048.
Our tipster, @Frankrockz, went on to say:
Apparently the Twitter.framework is the only framework I found to have these enormous images.
The images prove a lot, but the fact that the huge images can only be found in the Twitter.framework is discouraging to our beliefs that this means an iPad 3 is coming some time around the release of iOS 5, featuring a retina display. Here are the pictures:
From the watermark you will be able to tell the size difference because both watermarks are at the same size, but the resolution on the image below is much larger, 2x the size of the one above.
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