APPLE UNVEILS ITS NEW iPad

THE NEW iPad FEATURES A SHARPER SCREEN AND A FASTER PROCESSOR...

Apple unveild its new iPad on Wednesday 7^th morning in San Francisco and I was browsing the sites here in night as the LIVE EVENT was going on in the States. Many sites offered the live coverage of it online but I looked for reading the specifications. I knew the event was going to be a sad one as the company would remember their former CEO Steve Jobs.

Anyhow, coming to the launch event, Chief Executive Tim Cook, presiding over his second major product launch after debuting with 2011's voice-enabled iPhone 4S, introduced the highly anticipated third iteration of the tablet, which is available for pre-orders from Wednesday and will hit store shelves March 16 in USA.

But he stumped many in the audience by breaking away from the tradition of calling the third-generation tablet the iPad 3, as some had expected, referring to it simply as the "new iPad."

The company said it will continue to sell the iPad 2 but dropped its price by $100. The older tablet now starts at $399 while the new third-generation wi-fi only iPad starts at $499.

Now moving on to the specifications and features, I’ve compiled them in major points. So here it goes.. Perhaps the most touted accomplishment of the new iPad 3 is its new screen, or ‘Retina display.’ The screen boasts incredibly high resolution, 2048 x 1536, which is double that of the current iPad 2. At 3.1 million megapixels, the most ever in a mobile device, the iPad 3 Retina display has over a million more pixels than 1080p full HD TVs. A new processor, the Apple A5X makes the iPad 3 even faster than its predecessor, the X standing for quad-core graphics. The A5X claims to deliver 4x the performance of NVIDIA’s Tegra 3. In addition, added image stabilization feature in the iPad 3 makes gaming and watching video clips that much easier on the go. 

The theme of the innovations and design changes for the iPad 3 seems to be enhanced visual capacity and graphics, and increased diversity of features that are guaranteed to deliver the ‘Wow!’ factor. The iPad 3 incorporates a brand new camera, dramatically increased from the 1.0 megapixel in the iPad 2 to a 5.0 megapixel camera. Referred to as the iSight, the new camera enables the iPad 3 to have even more of the same functions of a digital camera. For example, the new camera is capable of shooting 1080p full HD video.

For those interested in speed and connectivity, the iPad 3 does indeed offer 4G LTE, and boasts 21Mbps HSPA, DC-HSPA for 42Mbps, together with LTE for 72Mbps. The 4G LTE will be available from AT&T and Verizon carriers. Also new on the iPad 3 is a dictation feature with an incredibly simple on/off switch that allows users to have the iPad 3 take notes from their dictation. Incredibly useful for students and presenters, this new feature is a sure-fire draw for the education and business communities. 

Believe it or not, the iPad 3 runs all of its impressive new features with 10 hours of battery life, 9 hrs if 4G LTE is turned on. And if all of the new tech specs weren’t enough to grab consumers’ attention, Apps like Sketchbook Pro and Garageband and have exciting updates that take full advantage of the new Retina Display. And the things the latest version of iPhoto is capable of make it fully drool-worthy for every photographer alive, amateur and professional. 

Here’s the table of specifications:-

General	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 for AT&T
		CDMA 800 / 1900 for Verizon
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 for AT&T
		CDMA2000 1xEV-DO for Verizon
	4G Network	LTE 700 MHz Class 17 / 2100 for AT&T
		LTE 700 MHz Class 13 for Verizon
	Announced	2012, March
	Status	Coming soon. 2012, March 16

Body	Dimensions	241.2 x 185.7 x 9.4 mm
	Weight	662 g

Display	Type	LED-backlit IPS TFT, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	1536 x 2048 pixels, 9.7 inches (~264 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Scratch-resistant glass, oleophobic coating

Sound	Alert types	N/A
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

Memory	Card slot	No
	Internal	16/32/64 GB storage

Data	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	Speed	HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, LTE, 73 Mbps; Rev. A, up to 3.1 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
	Bluetooth	Yes, v4.0 with A2DP, EDR
	USB	Yes, v2.0

Camera	Primary	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus
	Features	Touch focus, geo-tagging, HDR, face detection
	Video	Yes, 1080p@30fps, video stabilization
	Secondary	Yes, VGA

Features	OS	iOS 5
	Chipset	Apple A5X
	CPU	Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
	GPU	PowerVR SGX543MP4
	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, compass
	Messaging	iMessage, Email, Push Email, IM
	Browser	HTML (Safari)
	Radio	No
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	No
	Colors	Black, White
		- MicroSIM card support only - iCloud cloud service - Twitter integration - MP4/MP3/WAV/AAC player - Photo viewer/editor - Audio&video player/editor - Voice dictation - iBooks PDF reader - Google Maps - TV-out

Battery		Standard battery, Li-Po 42.5 Wh
	Stand-by	Up to 720 h
	Talk time	Up to 10 h

The launch Apple iPad 3 Price and Launching Date:

Apple iPad 3 release date in US- March, 2012.

Apple iPad 3 release date in UK- March, 2012.

Apple iPad 3 release date in India- Spring, 2012.

Apple iPad 3 price in US is $ 800 and the price in India is around Rs.40,000/-.

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 Sources:- TOI, Yahoo news, gsmarena.com