Probably the new default

iOS 5.1 has a little gem for wallpaper fanatics like me: Apple will include four new wallpapers in the iPad version of iOS 5.1 (likely the release launching alongside the iPad 3 next year). The new wallpapers are water crashing onto a sand beach, grass blades, and two ocean wallpapers. These are reminiscent of some of the OS X Lion wallpapers, but scaled to the iPad’s screen size.

Apple has yet to include these new wallpapers for the iPhone, but we’ve shrunk them down to iPhone and iPod touch Retina size. Something interesting to note: Apple shipped an all-new wallpaper set with the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 was the first iPhone to include a new screen resolution, so Apple needed to make new wallpapers of the Retina size. Apple could be doing the same with the iPad, but we’ll have to wait and see. To clarify, these downloads aren’t for a Retina iPad.

Downloads: iPad (1, 2, 3, 4), iPhone (1, 2, 3, 4)

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