iPad HD (iPad 3) - 2048x1526 res, better performance then tegra 3?

[Boyiee]

Some notes on the news conference, highlights of specs etc.

+ A5X Quad core
+ Supposedly 4X performance of the just release NVIDIA Quad Core Tegra 3
+ Siri
+ 4G across multiple networks
+ Apple sold more iPads than anyone has sold PC's
+ 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution, which is 1million more pixels than 1080p
+ Same price points as iPad2
+ Still has 10 hour battery on Wifi and 9 hours of 4G. Starts at $499. Same prices across the board.
+ Epic Games is demoing Dungeons: craft the Infinity Blade. looks pretty nuts. Guess that’s why Infinity Blade went on sale this morning.
+ “more memory and higher screen resolution than an Xbox 360 or PS3.”

I may update with more, I may not. Gizmodo and 9to5mac are doing a good job, so I'm just going to copy paste.

2:20 iPad video.

2:15 Almost 20 minutes of demo time for iPhoto and still scratching surface. Oh, just $4.99. All of iLife now on iPAd.

2:05 Editing pictures in iPhoto from a professional DSLR (Nikon). Weird – no support for Google’s Picasa.

2:00 iPhoto for iPad ” Amazing” great way to browse and edit photos. Multi touch editing, Professional Quality Effects, Brushes, photo beaming, Photo journals.

1:58 – iMovie – new interface, looks like professional tool. And with 1080 camera built right in? iPads are going to be the new Video end to end tool – low end prosumer grade-ish at least.

1:56: New stuff for Garage Band – Smart Strings, Note Editor, iCloud sharing – JAM IN REAL TIME OMG

1:55 iWork Apps with jaw dropping graphics – available today at the app store (great – that helps a lot!)

1:53 “more memory and higher screen resolution than an Xbox 360 or PS3.”

1:51: Epic Games is demoing Dungeons: craft the Infinity Blade. looks pretty nuts. Guess that’s why Infinity Blade went on sale this morning.

1:50: Autodesk (guess Apple’s over that whole two decade Autocad boycott). We’ve had 10 million customers in 29 years. More than that in a year on the iPad.

Sketchbook Ink is new lineart app (watch out Illustrator!) export images greater than 100 megapixels.

1:45 Namco is demoing a Retina Jet fighter app

1:42: Preoders start today and delivered on March 16th in US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia.

1:40 Still has 10 hour battery on Wifi and 9 hours of 4G. Starts at $499. Same prices across the board.



1:35 AT&T and Verizon in US, Rogers, Bell and Telus in Canada. 2 US bands= 2 different LTE iPads.
Personal Hotspot too.

1:33 L to the TE 4G 72MB theoretical


1:30 Voice dictation Siri-ous.

1:29: 5 megapixel camera, 1080P recording. Crazy Apple optics. This will ruin just about every public event in the future.

1:28 Supposedly 4X performance of the just release NVIDIA Quad Core Tegra 3. I suppose there will be some discussion on this front.

1:27: A5X Quad core graphics. Dual core processor. Everyone was right. Or everyone was wrong!

1:26 “we’re allowed to call 264 pixels per inch Retina (a term we made up btw) because you hold it further from your face. Also AppleTV is Retina too.”

1:23 Schiller time! “Retina display” “Stunning” 2048 x 1536 pixels! (iPhone 4 stuff on repeat. Text, graphics – when can I have one?!) 1 million more pixels than 1080P TVs.

1:21: The new “iPad” That’s it. No suffix!

1:20 200K iPAd apps. Talking smack about the competition. Yelp, Twitter look bad on Android.

1:18 Speaking of Gloating, Apple sold more iPads than anyone else sold PCs and GDGT has the graph to prove it



Taking a bit of a break here to gloat that we called the whole AppleTV 1080P thing. For those who waited to buy an AppleTV, you are welcome Those that didn’t the 720P ones make great hockey pucks-fyi

1:17 Movie UI also has genius. (hopefully you can turn it off!)

1:15 New user interface looks a lot like Netflix a bit..

1:12 AppleTV 1080P. You don’t say. 9to5mac readers, take your jaw off the ground. iTunes Match support.

1:10: iCloud: zooming past 100 million customers already. Now supports movies

1:09: App store. Virtual cycle: Better apps= mo money= better developers= mo money. 25 billion app downloads, not all of them free.

1:08: Siri is now in Japananese (whoops Siri already told us that!) and in Australia Germany, etc.

1:07: 315 million iOS devices and 62 million just last quarter

1:05: Retail Stores (362 total right now – one for every day of the year -road trip?!), Grand Central. Newest Largest Store in Amsterdam.

Looks like Tim is actually there!


1:00 Tim Cook enters the stage…”Apple is leading the Post-PC revolution…Cloud+iPad, iPhone+ iPod” – 172 million “post-PC” devices were sold last year – 76% of Apple’s revenues.

12:55 Reporting from NYC…

[tyven]

ILL TAKE 2

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[hey]

2048 x 1536 pixel resolution

Starts at $499

Well, you got my attention.

[Isiolia]

Hopefully will at least result in higher density LCDs becoming more common/commonplace rather than the disgustingly stagnant (if not regressive) market we've tended to see for the past few years.

[Kaisha]

Can't wait to see what the battery life really is like come its release in a couple weeks.

[octopus]

So I guess no more special model numbers. It's just "the new iPad"

[Ragnell]

But Xbox 360s or PS3s don't have screens....

[Ratatapa]

There is no siri it's a voice dictation

Unless i missed it i never saw Siri anywhere

[Boyiee]

There is no siri it's a voice dictation

Unless i missed it i never saw Siri anywhere

I saw "Siri-ous" next to the voice dictation, so I just put it there.

[Ratatapa]

Yeah from what i read I might be wrong when they said about siri language was for the iPhone 4s while ipad3 just get a voice dictation but nice anyway

[Alolbont]

Eh disappointed really. Minimal hardware upgrades and nothing terribly useful software wise. Ipad2s.

[miokomioko]

Eh disappointed really. Minimal hardware upgrades and nothing terribly useful software wise. Ipad2s.

Sounds par-for-the-course for Apple these days.

[octopus]

That resolution and 4x Tegra 3 graphics is minimal hardware upgrade?

[Franzer]

4x Tegra 3 graphics

There's a difference between a tech demonstration and people actually using the hardware. Just because they said that, doesn't mean anything. Once its goes on sale, and people can start doing benchmarks and comparing it against the tegra 3 will 2x-4x be a fair assumption.

[octopus]

Even if it's just 2x and not 4x, it's still a significant performance increase over the absolute best chip that Android tablets have to offer.

[Boyiee]

Eh disappointed really. Minimal hardware upgrades and nothing terribly useful software wise. Ipad2s.

I think you're delusional. Highest res on the market by FAR, in fact isn't it the highest resolution monitor under 27inches?

Ram's been upgraded, cpu and graphics got a major overhaul.

This is not an apple hate or apple fanboi thread, keep the bullshit out.

Spamming F5 on apple store now.

[Nyima]

I don't really understand the purpose of having a resolution that high when nothing can use it, except a few games.

[Ratatapa]

Perso i'm not getting it at launch for me atm it,s too much for Photographers and people who do designs and what so ever but maybe later i'll get one

[Tyche]

I'll wait. It's going to take a while for programs to switch to the new display (or at least it did for the 3Gs to 4). I'll probably hold onto my 2 until the 4 comes along.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

I'm looking at getting an iPad for my one year old so the most exciting thing about this announcement today is the price drop of the 2.