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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