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Digitimes reports that Apple is currently evaluating a pair of options for addressing issues with LED backlighting on the iPad 3, noting that the current backlight bar design used in the iPad 2 is insufficient for the higher-resolution display reportedly set to debut in the next-generation tablet.

One of the new LED light bar designs has proposed to keep the light bar in a single-bar form factor but with two LED chips inside; the other has suggested using dual-LED light bars, the sources indicated.

Apple is likely to adopt the design using dual light bars, the sources asserted, adding that BLU makers have solved issues related heat dissipation and battery consumption for the dual light bar design.

Apple is unsurprisingly expected to introduce the iPad 3 early next year, with The Wall Street Journal being the highest-profile publication to confirm that timeline. A higher-resolution "Retina" display is the most widely-claimed enhancement scheduled for the device, although several reports have indicated that Apple's suppliers are struggling to produce the displays in volume.

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Top Rated Comments

Quad5Ny Avatar
185 months ago
I have no idea what the difference is. :)

By choosing a display with higher pixel density they need more light to provide the same brightness (you loose about 50% of the light as it passes through all the display elements).

Dual light bar just means there is two strips of LED lights behind the diffuser, filters and LCD.

http://www.plasma.com/classroom/images/What_is_TFT-LCD.jpg
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
wickoo Avatar
185 months ago
I have no idea what the difference is. :)
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DUSTmurph Avatar
185 months ago
<sarcasm>
It's a bar! Apple is putting a bar in the iPad! You can get drinks from your iPad now! </sarcasm>

Maybe we can find an iPhone 5 or 6 at that bar!
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
justperry Avatar
185 months ago
<sarcasm>
It's a bar! Apple is putting a bar in the iPad! You can get drinks from your iPad now! </sarcasm>

Actually 2 for the price of 1, Happy hour. :D
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
igazza Avatar
185 months ago
I hope apple can keep the 10 hour battery life.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Adey Avatar
185 months ago
Why have two really clever bars in there?

Surely Apple can develop one really, really, really clever bar.

Call it, like "Genius Bar" or something.

No, hang on. Think they've done that one already.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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