Watched some live blogging and podcasting about this morning’s Apple announcement of their new iPad, conveniently called the new iPad. I had four browser windows open simultaneously, one with TWiT doing their live commentary coverage, and three others from MacWorld, Engadget and The Verge, all of which were doing an amazing job live blogging the event with pictures.
Very abridged details of the event (besides the mention of the new Apple TV): The new iPad has a faster A5X dual-core processor along with a new quad-core graphics processor. It now also boasts a very similar Retina display as the iPhone 4 and 4S, as well as the same 5 megapixel iSight camera used in the iPhone 4S. It can now also record HD video in full 1080p. It comes with advanced voice dictation, but not Siri. There are two models, one for AT&T and another for Verizon, and both run on the 4G LTE network. They also demoed the three iLife apps (iMovie, Garage Band and iPhoto), now updated to take advantage of the new iPad’s features. The most impressive was the completely rewritten iPhoto with incredible, new multi-touch gesture editing and sharing features. They also introduced three third-party vendors who demonstrated their apps on the iPad, two games and an illustration app.
Even after being introduced almost two years ago, I still find the iPad to be a beautiful and amazingly advanced device, years ahead of any other tablet, that will truly become ubiquitous within a few years.
CEO Tim Cook ended with a promise of many more innovations coming this year. iPhone 5 anyone?
(The first image shows my desktop with the four browser windows.)
