New iPad will be announced on Wednesday next week. What new features will it have? Retina display? No home button?
That picture seems to imply both. 
The question is if anyone is going to be travelling to and back from the States in a few weeks? 
Something close enough to retina to drool over. And I’d bet Macs get something similar pretty quickly.
But, what happens to the iPad 2? Will Apple keep it around at a discount, like the iPhone 3GS and 4? That wold be a real kick in the teeth to all of the next efforts of the also rans.
Looks like a new Apple TV will be announced at the same time.
[quote=“Jaboney”]Something close enough to retina to drool over. And I’d bet Macs get something similar pretty quickly.
But, what happens to the iPad 2? Will Apple keep it around at a discount, like the iPhone 3GS and 4? That wold be a real kick in the teeth to all of the next efforts of the also rans. [/quote]
I’d imagine they’d do that. The whole “free” 3GS and super-cheap iPhone 4 worked pretty well to put a serious hurt anyone who wasn’t Samsung, who decided to take a very brilliant approach at their marketing for the Galaxy S2.
Have my fingers crossed for the retina-esque iPad and an update to the Pro this spring to go Air-like with an SSD main drive and a retina-level display. The only thing that would make me happier and my pockets much lighter is if Apple also decides to announce double resolution 27" Thunderbolt displays. Imagine that! 5000+ pixels across.
Andy Ihnatko seems to have a review device but can’t say anything due to the hush-hush agreements. But, posted this:
[quote=“Ihnatko”]What do we know for sure about what Apple will announce March 7? You did say “for sure”? Ah. Well, nothing. But there are many safe guesses to be made, and possibly one or two surprises in store.
The event will unveil the iPad 3. The new iPad will be the same size as the iPad 2 with only marginal cosmetic changes. Its signature feature will be an ultra-high-def display that will render ebooks, websites and nearly every element of every iPad app at twice the resolution of the first and second generation hardware … surpassing even the clarity of an art magazine.
We’ll likely see an upgraded camera. Apple can hardly avoid improving the current hardware, even if only by accident. The biggest surprise could be the pricing. Apple will make sure that the cheapest iPad still costs no more than $499. Will they do this via a $499 iPad 3? Or with a new $600 iPad and a price cut on a still-alive iPad 2?[/quote]No real surprises there. Well, it’s good to hear the camera’s been improved. Would be great if it were the same as that in the 4S. Would be nice to give it a new mic and Siri too.
It seems like these are just guesses, as opposed to him having an actual test unit?
No, he’s got one. Usually gets previews.
Caught him doing his distraction comedy routine on the MacBreak Weekly podcast this week when asked questions he couldn’t answer under a non-disclosure agreement.
macrumors.com/2012/02/17/con … a-display/
2048x1536 “retina”. That’s over 50% more pixels that a “full HD” 21-24" monitor and is 85% the pixels of a 27" Thunderbolt or Dell display. :discodance: 
Sign me up for 2 of 'em!
That’s higher resolution than a 150ish DPI real book.
At 264ppi, it’s not quite iPhone 4’s 326ppi, but it’s approaching a 300 DPI glossy magazine.
Reasons why anyone would want to use a regular book or magazine after this are very slim.
Speculations aside–the real important question is when will it be available at the Apple stores in Taiwan?
Does anyone remember how long after iPad2 was announced before it made it to the Taiwan Apple stores?
The iPad 2 was released in the US on March 11, 2011 and was released in Taiwan on May 27 - so around 2.5 months later.
On the one hand, they’ve been getting better at their international roll outs. On the other, the retina display screen probably has much lower yields than the older generation screens so it may be harder to get them out in mass quantity.
So word on the street is that this new device will be called the iPad HD!
chronicwire.com/the-ipad-3-has-1gb-of-ram
1 gigabyte of RAM. Wow.
I just want the one with the wifis.
With the biggest GeeBees
But, but… what if they include the 4th G?
New rumors that the iPad HD could have haptic feedback.
[quote]But now there’s this suggestion that Apple’s made good on a number of its patents and implemented haptic technology in a very advanced way on the iPad screen. They’ve probably done so by licensing the physical tech from another firm and melding it in a very seamless way with the rest of the iPad hardware and, most importantly, software. This would mean much more than just feeling a nondescript “jolt” when you dab at the otherwise featureless glossy face of the tablet.
If, as The Guardian is implying, Apple’s gone with Senseg’s ESense system, it’ll mean that the screen will be able to sense ridges, cloth, sand-like surfaces, and dynamic moving textures. Senseg’s sytem uses an electrostatic effect to physically attract your fingertip microscopic amounts–enough for your highly sensitive finger nerves to feel–and it’s clever enough to dynamically generate a sensation that you’re moving an object on the screen when you push at it with your finger.[/quote]
Pretty crazy stuff! I guess we’ll find out in a few hours (or when we wake up in the morning).
That would be crazy cool.
Sweet. 2048 x 1536 “Retina” and the 4th G. 5MP, 1080P camera. Siri “lite” (dictation only). 1GB of RAM and quad core graphics. Same pricing as the iPad 2.
Retina display, LTE and A5X CPU. Available March 16th.
Obviously, no word on TW. Get yee to the USA or HK, fine iPad lovers, this one looks good.
Looks pretty good. Only odd thing is the name “the new iPad”. Maybe it’ll be like the iPod Touch where they just have a single model each year. Except, they’re still selling the iPad 2 for $100 less.
Does Taiwan even have 4G? I have no idea.
[quote=“Adam_CLO”]Looks pretty good. Only odd thing is the name “the new iPad”. Maybe it’ll be like the iPod Touch where they just have a single model each year. Except, they’re still selling the iPad 2 for $100 less.
The rationale seems to be to take the MacBook naming route and just leverage how strong the iPad brand is. Even to today, at the beginning of the 3rd year of tablet computing, when it comes to tablets there’s the iPad and then there’s “something else”. Since there’s no need to get in a pissing match about newness, they probably figured, “just call it iPad from now on”.