Apple’s Steve Jobs made an appearance to officially announce the much awaited iPad 2. iPad 2 is the descendant of iPad tablet which is very trendy and exceedingly eye-catching.
The new iPad 2 is powered with a dual-core A5 CPU. It is slimmer than its previous iPad and has a screen size of 9.7 inch. It has XGA resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. Steve Jobs told said that the new iPad 2 was a result of complete redesign of earlier versions but was still basically an iPad. The new iPad 2 is 33 percent thinner than the earlier version and because of its less thickness, it measures even less than iPhone 4 in thickness. It is 8.8 mm thin and weighs about 601 gram.
iPad 2 is equipped with two cameras. The camera fitted at the back is of 0.7 Megapixel and it records images at 960 x 720 pixels and video at 720 pixels resolution. The front camera is of the same quality as that of VGA in both image and video recording mode. It also has Facetime calling with Wi-Fi support.
The new iPad 2 has all the qualities of previos iPad and many more. It is more compact, has less thickness, lesser weight, is more attractive and still provides 10 hours of battery time with all its features.
iPad 2 will also come in CDMA and EV-DO versions, which will be provided by Verizon in the US. iPad 2 will come in black and white flavors with the white flavor being offered from the very day of lauching.
The Apple iPad 2 will can be yours from 11th of March, 2011 in the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, UK, France and Germany. Apart from the above countries, it would be available for sale in twenty additional countries from most probably 26th of March, 2011.
The following is the price of Apple iPad 2:
- The 16GB Wi-Fi only version of the iPad 2 will cost $500.
- The 16GB 3G-enabled version of the iPad 2 will cost $630 starting price.
- You have to pay 100$ more if you want upgrading to 32GB Storage.
- You have to pay 200$ more if you want upgrading to 64GB Storage.