Today Apple announced the iPad 2 which will be available in the USA a week on Friday and in most other countries on March 25th.
Here is a run down of the new features:
Macotakara claims that Apple is planning to hold a short media event at the end of February to launch the iPad 2 and actual availability of the device will be in March.
Apple is widely known to be prepping the next generation iPad. There have been reports of iPad 2 prototypes being spotted and there was also an unconfirmed tip that a television commercial for the iPad 2 had already been shot in LA last week.
Foxconn Electronics factories have recently been told that they will ship Apple’s next generation iPad within the next 100 days with initial shipments to reach 400,000-600,000 units according to Digitimes.
iPad 2 will ship as soon as the end of February in 2011. Apple originally planned to start mass production in January, but because the device’s firmware is currently still in testing, Apple has been postponing the schedule. Since Foxconn’s new plants in Chengdu are still in pilot production, iPad 2 will be mainly supplied by its Shenzhen plants, while the company’s upstream component partners have all been notified of the shipments schedule.
Rumors have suggested that the new iPad will include a FaceTime camera, gyroscope, thinner form factor, better display and a USB connector.
DigiTimes claims that Apple will refresh its iPad in the first quarter of 2011, moving to a processor based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 design, up from the current Apple A4 chip leveraging the Cortex-A8 design. The report also claims that the new iPad will carry the same 512 MB of RAM as the iPhone 4, up from the 256 MB found in the current iPad.
According to the report, the iPad will be available in both the existing 9.7-inch screen size and a smaller 7-inch size. The smaller version is, however, said to carry the same 1024×768 resolution of the existing iPad, resulting in an increase in pixel density to 183 ppi from 132 ppi. While not offering the same high resolution as the iPhone 4′s Retina display at 326 ppi, content on the smaller iPad would appear a bit sharper than on the larger version.
Reports by DigiTimes suggests that Apple may launch a smaller iPad in the first quarter of 2011. This would bring the price below $400 and would offer a 5-7 inch screen.
Apple is reportedly scheduling a smaller 5- to 7-inch version of the iPad that is expected to launch as soon as the first quarter of 2011, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo.
Kuo, citing talks with upstream component sources, said Apple’s smaller-size iPad will be priced below US$400 and will target the highly-portable mobile device market and consumers that focus mainly on reading and do not have a high demand for text input.
There has been speculation about this possibility previously but since the official launch of iPad this is the first time it’s been spoken about again.
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