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The New Apple iPad

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Ditching the expected nomenclature, Apple has launched its new tablet device today, "The new iPad". What was the point in bringing out iPad 2 then going back to the old days of how iPods are named, the blasted generation title.

So whats on everybody's mind is, should I upgrade or not? For me its a no, but that's me. Apple has bumped up the hardware in the "new iPad", while keeping the design the same. Frankly that is a pretty good idea as the iPad 2 still has a fresh design.

So what's changed, first and foremost is the screen. It has been given the retina title, with a resolution of 2048 * 1536, that is a mind blowing number of pixels, when a full 1080p HD screen is olny 1920 * 1080 pixles. Everything is much more crisp on "the new iPad", you no longer see a grid but a seem less image.

Next is the backward facing camera, which apple renamed the isight camera. Its now 5MP and takes decent images. I found myself scratching my head at this particular upgrade as an iPad isn't really practical at taking photos and I have never taken out an iPad to take a photo of something. But I have heard of people who do and seen a video's on youtube of a person using the iPad like a camera. It looks ridiculous, in my mind its like wearing 3d glasses, you look like a tool. The forward camera has remained the same at .3MP but again apple has renamed it, to the facetime camera.

The processor on the iPad is a hybrid, dual-core processor with quad-core graphics, the apple A5X SoC processor, be prepared to see this on the next iphone. while apple is touting its graphics performance and stating it's reason for its upgrade was gaming, I'm leaning towards the notion that the quad-core graphics is for the sheer number of pixels that the iPad has to deal with, also it has finally 1 GB of RAM.

Finally the last major addition is of 4G LTE, a super fast mobile internet connection does wonders at 20 mbits down and 12 mbit up on a real world test.

The high resolution display, 4G LTE and other goodies are packed into the iPad while maintaining the same price and battery life of the old iPad2. Seems like a good time to upgrade right, well i'm not completly convinced with windows 8 launching later this year with nokia potentially making lumia 900 unibody tablet, I'm holding off. Also the speed of the tablet hasn't really changed it still doesn't feel any different to a iPad2 in terms of performance of responsiveness. Also i find this new naming system as being a bit schizophrenic, maybe it's tim cooks take on apple but changing it from last generation was pointless.

So if your new to the tablet device, "the new ipad" is a great choice, if your on the iPad 2 and especially if you got it during christmas there is really no motivation to upgrade and if you on the original iPad i would recommend the upgrade, but you can still wait for the next model if your tight on cash.

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