Asus teases MWC 'retina display' revelation
Starts posting Transformer Android 4 update too
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It's official: Asus has begun posting its Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Eee Pad Transformer tablet.
The pad, aka the TF101, will get updated first in Taiwan, Asus said, but pledged to roll out the new Google operating system "in other regions soon".
The update takes the TF101's system software to release 9.2.1.11.
Separately, Asus posted a teaser vid for what it may say at next week's Mobile World Congress (MWC). With the tagline "twice the detail, twice the fun" and images emphasising pixels, it's hard not to conclude that the company will be showing off a 'retina display' tablet.
Showing off and shipping are different matters, of course. Will Asus - as many fans will hope - be able to get its ultrahigh-res offering out before Apple does with the 2048 x 1536 iPad 3 early next month. ®
COMMENTS
Yes, I've been playing with it (ooo-err!) for a couple of hours now. It's definitely an improvement over Honeycomb. The stock browser is much better and scrolls nicely without the annoying tiling that the HC browser does. The typing lag in the browser seems to be gone as well. Overall, it's a great update.
By the look of my latest firmware update it seems that they have rolled it out to the UK, which is nice :-D
Re: why?
At some point you get diminishing returns. Once you can render smooth text without anti-aliasing there's really no need for any increase in DPI. What I'm really looking forward to is desktop monitors with the DPI of current smartphones (probably looking at 4K resolutions here).
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