Google’s Nexus 7 is essentially the most successful Android tablet to date, though the Kindle Fire does follow closely behind it. With that in mind, would Google be wise to attempt to enter into the 10-inch tablet world with a Nexus 10? They certainly seem to think so.

Google is planning a special product event in New York City on October 29th and while we know that we’ll see the Nexus 4, odds are the Nexus 10 is also going to join the party. So what do (we think) we know about the Nexus 10 so far? For starters, it will be built by Samsung. We also believe it will more directly compete with the Retina iPad line.

According to the rumor the Nexus 10 will pack an extremely impressive 2560 x 1600 resolution with a 300ppi. This is excellent and, if true, will give the newest iPad a run for its money. For those that don’t know, the Retina display on the iPad has a resolution of 2048 x 1536 and outputs around 264ppi.

Adding even more to its competitive abilities, rumors claim it will run Android 4.2 and feature a new multi-user ability that will make sharing a tablet with family and friends easier than ever before. If the Nexus 10 is at least a little cheaper than the iPad 4th generation and packs a similar display, would you consider the Samsung-made device or not?

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UPDATE: Nexus 10 is official. Check out more information, here.

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According to DigiTimes, supply chain sources claim that Apple is readying a new MacBook Pro with whooping  2880×1800 screen for Q2 of 2012. A 2880×1800 pixel display would have a density of about 220 pixels per inch at a 15.4″ size, which is double the density of the current default 1440×900 display. New MacBooks may come in three sizes: 17″, 15.4″, and 13″ by screen diagonals.

Such a pixel density coincides nicely with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion’s hidden HiDPI display options, which double the number of pixels used for user interface elements. TextEdit in this HiDPI mode will look this beautiful:

This rendering was made  from the screen of “older” MacBook Pro, so many elements, like these bitmapped triangles, don’t scale up nicely on the experimental HiDPI mode. They will certainly do much better with the release of new MacBooks, even if there’s a lot of these bitmapped elements to take care of.

Unlike iOS with its fixed resolutions, Mac OS X has to contend with a much wider variety of display sizes. Thus far, there has been no Mac equivalent of the iPhone 4, arriving with a double-density display. Plain doubling, or quadrupling the pixel count on a laptop display to reach “Retina” class resolutions is not the actual target though: smaller pixel densities than “Retina” (or roughly 300 dpi) can look equally good if the generally larger observation distance from the display is meant.

Such is the case when working on the MacBook Pro. Calculations show that the desired effect of no visible pixels, or “jaggies” on diagonal lines can be reached for a laptop screen of about 220 DPI. Naturally, you are not supposed to hold such a screen closer than 15″ from its screen. In normal working conditions, nobody does.

Recent news on iPad3 getting a 2048×1536 display now seems to fit rather well into the grand scheme of a user’s unified experience for Apple products.

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“Retina”-class displays instigated by Apple’s research were demoed by several major display manufacturers on technology shows since this summer. They were presented in different sizes, form-factors, and LCD techologies by Toshiba, Sharp, LG Display, and Samsung.

This time Samsung is rumored to move ever closer to its target. The mysterious netbook-sized tablet will most probably sport a 11.6″ 2560×1600 display (there are also 10.1″ 1920×1200 specimens demoed, but there’s no rumors tying these to any future product just yet). The technology to drive such a display could be IGZO TFT LCD by Sharp, so such a display won’t be too sluggish and ghosting when repainting such a stupendous number of pixels.

It also could be a PenTile type of display for gaining a better screen transparency and liminence on a very dense grid of pixels. With a PenTile type panel, the pixel count numbers may differ depending on who counts, but it’s not substantial for anything in the ongoing discussion of Samsung rumors.

This Samsung super-slate will be driven by Samsung Exynos 5250 SoC, a 2 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A15 chip on 32-nm High K Metal Gate technology. The chip is claimed to double the performance of existing ARM Cortex A9 dual-cores running at 1.5 GHz. It’s modded prototype might be an obvious basis for designing iPad 3′s A6 processor.

So again, Samsung continues to play very close to Apple. Next year will show what this cat and mouse game boils down to.

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