The long awaited announcement for the iPad 3 is out.
The quick highlights: (all quotes from a press release):
"Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the stage in San Francisco Wednesday to announce a new iPad. In fact, he just called it simply "the new iPad." It will have a quad-core chip, "retina" high-resolution display, a 5-megapixel camera and 4G LTE networking for fast connection on Verizon Wireless and AT&T.
The display has 2048 x 1536 pixels. That's over 3.1 million pixels, "the most ever on a mobile devices," says Phil Schiller, worldwide marketing boss.
The new iPad will have an A5X chip, which is a quad-core processor. It delivers four times the performance of the iPad 2.
The camera on the new iPad has a 5-megapixel center, optics with an IR filter, and some nice controls to maximize picture taking. As you may expect from the camera and the screen, you can shoot 1080p video with this baby.
There's voice-to-text for emails and other text-input windows, but it doesn't look like there's full-blown Siri here, which seems odd. The voice is some guy's voice, not the sultry Siri we've come to know (in the U.S.)."
Of course, this begs the question - "When do I move up to the new technology?" A quad-core processor - that's good (and fast); a better camera (nice - (okay, the old camera on the iPad2 is lacking, but okay - my stand-alone camera is good - but that means I have to carry both a tablet and a camera); high resolution display (nice - but ... actually I have no problems with the display on my iPad2 (after all, if it is too small, I can enlarge it ...); LTE / 4G connections - that's good (but ... I'm not on a data plan currently - but looking at one); voice to text? (dragon speech is already available); no Siri (doesn't sound right).
So ... will I upgrade? Not yet!!!
The camera on the new iPad has a 5-megapixel center, optics with an IR filter, and some nice controls to maximize picture taking. As you may expect from the camera and the screen, you can shoot 1080p video with this baby.
There's voice-to-text for emails and other text-input windows, but it doesn't look like there's full-blown Siri here, which seems odd. The voice is some guy's voice, not the sultry Siri we've come to know (in the U.S.)."
Of course, this begs the question - "When do I move up to the new technology?" A quad-core processor - that's good (and fast); a better camera (nice - (okay, the old camera on the iPad2 is lacking, but okay - my stand-alone camera is good - but that means I have to carry both a tablet and a camera); high resolution display (nice - but ... actually I have no problems with the display on my iPad2 (after all, if it is too small, I can enlarge it ...); LTE / 4G connections - that's good (but ... I'm not on a data plan currently - but looking at one); voice to text? (dragon speech is already available); no Siri (doesn't sound right).
So ... will I upgrade? Not yet!!!
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