Review of New iPad

Apple’s event took place March 7th at their usual venue, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Clearer display, more powerful chipset, higher speed wireless network connection capability are the key selling point of the new iPad. The invitation sent on Feb, 29 showed a corner of the new iPad and literature as “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” Is it really as cool as Apple boasted? Let’s have a look at the new iPad.

At the conference, Apple announced that the new iPad tablet features an A5X dual-core SoC and a quad-core graphic processing unit capable of underpinning the new Retina display that comes with a resolution of 2,048 x 1,536. The clock rate of the new processor wasn’t revealed, but it’s certain that it was developed on the platform of the old A5 chipset placed inside the current iDevices.



The new iPad has a 3.1 million pixels and it comes with 44% more color saturation, which translates into “richer, deeper and more vivid” colors. The new iPad also comes with a rear-facing iSight 5 megapixel camera with a backside illumination sensor, autofocus, face detection and 1080p HD video recording support. The new iPad works both on Wi-Fi and 4G LTE networks, the latter ones capable of reaching download speeds of up to 72Mbps.

The new Apple iOS tablet is 9.4mm thick, thus the rumors saying that it would be thicker than its previous generation were confirmed today. Unfortunately the new tablet is also 19 grams heavier than the iPad 2, but the difference is insignificant and few will even notice it. The good news is that the third-generation iPad can stay awake for 10 hours on a single charge and offers up to 9 hours of battery life on 4G, a record for a tablet of its kind.

The iPad is starting at $499, while the old iPad 2 is on sale at $399. The new iPad will begin to take the lead in Australia, United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and Singapore. And later, it will be made available on even more countries of the planet.