“This is the first iPad with a decent camera. The very first iPad didn’t have one at all, of course, and last year’s wasn’t much to write home about. This year, there’s a 5Mp sensor,” Oscar Milde reports for Register Hwrdware. “Note that there’s no flash on this camera, so deploying it for stills or video is best suited to brightly lit situations. The video camera capabilities have been enhanced, too, so now it can shoot 1080p HD footage, up from the 720p last year’s model managed.”
“The new iPad’s ‘retina display,’ a 264 pixels per inch, 2048 x 1536 panel… is designed to be so high-resolution you can’t see the individual pixels,” Milde reports. “Take one glance at it and you can see Apple’s claim is true. This screen is very impressive… But to my eyes, it’s bright, crisp and crystal clear.”
Milde reports, “The A5X processor is not quad-core, as some had hoped, but it has twice the graphics performance of the iPad 2, I’m told. I tested a couple of games and they played very smoothly, with advanced graphics, to boot… If you haven’t had a tablet computer before, this looks like it is head and shoulders above the competition… If you have the iPad 2, the glorious 2048 x 1536 screen is reason enough to upgrade.”
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The iPadNew has twice the graphics performance if the iPad2, but it has 4x as many pixels. Does that mean it’s half as fast?
“Oscar Milde…” Cute.
Haven’t these people heard that this is only an iterative update? You can tell because the form factor is almost the same.
I must say I was shocked that they didn’t upgrade the front facing camera. Won’t people look really crappy during Facetime conversations between other iPads on that high res screen?
If you upgrade the FaceTime camera, you immediately and exponentially increase the amount of data being sent and thus the bandwidth needed for FaceTime video. If Apple’s goal is to get FaceTime over wireless networks, then increasing data and bandwidth requirements would be counter productive.
With AT&T and Verizon already throttling some iPhone/iPad users’ data, adding a data hog like that would not help get FaceTime adopted by the wireless carriers.
I too am shocked that the front camera is not able
to see every zit,mole,pimple,crease,wrinkle,blotch
on a face to be shown to ones friends.
A positive review of an Apple product from The Register! Wow!
see, I love me some MDN
it curates the content I want to see
and badmouths the content I don’t
call me shallow, call me shill, just don’t call me late for dinner