The new tablet, the first after company founder and industry legend Steve Jobs passed away last year, boasts a lot of interesting features that improve on its previous models.
The Guardian live blog from California reported that the new model has a retina screen with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, a million pixels more than HD Tv. Phil Schiller, who conducted the launch presentation, said that the device is powered by the new A5X quad-core propriety graphics chip, which is four times faster than the A5 installed in its previous model, the iPad2.
Other features include a five megapixel camera with HD video recording and image stabilisation.
The iPad (no new annotation revealed) will function on the 4G or LTE networks, where dual-carrier HSDPA will allow it to achieve internet streaming speeds of up to 42 megabits per second; and up to 73Mbps on LTE.
For those who are fans of the Siri personal helper, which debuted on the iPhone 4S launched in October 2011, a voice dictation system, will come pre-installed. It can decipher English, French, German, and Japanese.
It will also support iCloud.
Despite earlier speculation that the tablet may push $600, Schiller announced that prices will start from $499 in three models of 16, 32, and 64Gb. The models though will be carrier specific.
A $99 HD Apple TV was also launched at the event.
Read the full features list here.
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@Faraz Talat: Disagree.
First man made clay tablets to write contracts; then he wrote on stone; then on parchment; then on copper; then on palm leaves and paper; nothing changed since then, until iPad.
iPad is the new paper and the new television
Just ordered one! Cant wait for 16th to lay my hands on it :)
With this price, I can buy a second hand car.
I don't think that iPad is wastage of money... It can do alot more thing then an ordinary laptop do and yes it is not expensive! You can easily get a slightly used iPad 2 around 35K etc.. It is a wonderful product, specially for those who are more into presentations etc..
I hope someday i will realize the need to buy an iPad or someone will come from somewhere and tell me the pros of having an iPad that a laptop or notebook cant deliver!!
All of the above comments mean n say only one thing...that we are simply poor lol
and that @someone thinks, 4s was a fail! you gotta see their financials man !
829 USD! Just out of my reach. When will we see the next generation of Amazon's Kindle Fire (a good replica of Ipad- but not Ipad)? Anybody knows?
Better resolution on 9.7 inch screen than most screens out there. The experience is going to be immensely enhanced, there is no doubt about that. That said, for those who have an iPad 2, this update does not warrant the upgrade. No matter how good the iSight camera on this thing is, the camera on my laptop (though less in resolution) is still going to be my first priority. The biggest problem with tablets, which bar them from being adopted as main stream computing devices is to be able to do multiple things at one time. I do not think Apple's idea of "post-pc" era has come to life, just yet. It may take more than we have imagined.
Yet another unnecessary gadget that serves little more purpose than to show people you're wealthy enough to afford such a thing.
It's so pretty that it makes you want to buy it, but then good luck paying for services that other systems offer for free. If the smartphone doesn't fulfil your needs, simply buy a nice notebook or a laptop, something that an iPad can never, ever replace.
After a long negotiation, my wife agreed to my spending spree! Hopefully, I get to keep this without sacrificing it to my daughter.
Apple seems to have overcome the sickness created by the release of iphone 4s in lieu of 5. These are interesting and brave moves and company has finally lived upto the expectations. can't wait to have one though...
A new fail. Reminds me of iPhone 4S.
Really Apple??? where did your philosophy of innovation go ? IPAD 3 a major FAIL !!! I mean all that they could come up with was a better display ??
Why on Earth we need this 1 ?? We still Struggling in GSM era ...I can play games on a quite less expensive thing as well :D