HotOnline.Net covers the Apple press conference in real time, during the Apple Press conference that is taking place right now in San Francisco.
Let’s see together how events unfold and if the iPad 3 / HD tablet will be presented or not.
- The Apple Press Conference is about to start in a few moments
- Tim Cook, Apple CEO, appears on stage
- Tim Cook talks about the “post PC” device sales. He says that the iPad generated 76% of the Apple revenue.
- Tim Cook says that Siri will be available for Japanese users in a few weeks.
- PhotoStream Full HD is one of the iCloud services presented now
- Tim Cook starts to talk about the iPad 1 and iPad 2 tablets
- ” Today we are going to announce the new iPad and it is incredible” Tim Cook says.
- The new iPad seems to be thinner than the iPad 2 and the Home button was not included in the design
- Tim Cook says the resolution of the iPad 3 screen is 2048 x 1536 pixels!
- The new iPad 3 tablet has a A5X processor with quad core graphics! Apple says that this is twice as fast than a Nvidia Tegra 3 and provides four times bigger performance!
- Apple also upgraded the photo camera of the iPad – on the iPad 3 we get a 5 MP photo camera, with similar features as the one present on the iPhone 4S smartphone.
- the new iPad 3 photo camera – iSight has auto focus, auto exposure, IR filters and face recognition features
- the iPad 3 virtual keyboard can be replaced with vocal dictation through a microphone. This is not exactly Siri for iPad but similar feature wise.
- the new iPad 3 tablet offers 21 Mbps HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA 42 Mbps connectivity
- the new iPad 3 tablet has a 10 hours autonomy, similar to the autonomy of the iPad 2
- the new iPad tablet has a thickness of 9,4 and a weight of 630 grams ( a bit heavier than the iPad 2 )
- Prices: iPad 3 16 GB – 499 dollars; iPad 3 32 GB – 599 dollars; iPad 3 64 GB – 699 dollars
- Apple representatives explain the way the quad core graphics processor works: the four cores are not active when you run applications that do not require resources, this way the autonomy of the new iPad 3 tablet is increased.
- Epic Games representatives present a new HD game on the iPad 3 proving the superiority of the processing power and the clarity offered by the Retina Display.
- the iPhoto application for the new iPad 3 was also announced, with advanced multitouch controls and Photo Beam and Photo Journal options.
- the iPad 3 tablet will arrive on the market on March 16, 2012.
Personal note: Do you think the competition has any chance in front of the new iPad 3, considering it’s technical specifications ? We say NO!
- Tim Cook goes on stage, probably to present the new commercial name!
- the new iPad needs to have a name! It would be shocking to be named ” the new iPad”
- Apple knows how to surprise people! ” Meet The New iPad!”
- We promise to publish a more in depth article about “The New iPad” shortly. We repeat, this is the commercial name of the iPad 3 tablet. Nobody would have guessed that!