iPad 2 Update
Josh C Webb asked:
The iPad 2′s arrival is definitely not long away. Rumour has it the official unveiling date will fall in February of 2011. Foxconn, one of Apple’s manufacturers, say they will be shipping 5-6 hundred thousand units in the next 120 days. All this, coupled with the white edition of the iPhone 4 and a potential 5th edition of the iPhone on the horizon, bodes for a massive year for Apple.
The expected iPad 2, or ‘second-gen’ iPad is expected to stay the same size – Steve Jobs said in an interview that 7 inches was too small for a tablet PC. The coming iPad is also expected to incorporate both front and back cameras to allow Facetime accessibility, a really great piece of software for video chatting. whether Apple will concede to public complaints and decrease the weight of the new edition remains to be seen.
Sources seem to indicate the iPad 2 will again lack a USB port. There are, however, rumours emerging of a potential SD card port, presumably to allow for direct image viewing from a digital camera or for extended memory – the largest of these providing 32GB at the moment. There will also be a port available on the vertical panel as well as the horizontal, allowing for horizontal docking.
As the iPad 2 hasn’t been unveiled yet, we can’t expect a release date sooner than April or May, with the iPhone 4 white probably being released around June and then the iPhone 5 about September. This spaces Apple’s 2011 release dates fairly evenly.
The iPad 2′s arrival is definitely not long away. Rumour has it the official unveiling date will fall in February of 2011. Foxconn, one of Apple’s manufacturers, say they will be shipping 5-6 hundred thousand units in the next 120 days. All this, coupled with the white edition of the iPhone 4 and a potential 5th edition of the iPhone on the horizon, bodes for a massive year for Apple.
The expected iPad 2, or ‘second-gen’ iPad is expected to stay the same size – Steve Jobs said in an interview that 7 inches was too small for a tablet PC. The coming iPad is also expected to incorporate both front and back cameras to allow Facetime accessibility, a really great piece of software for video chatting. whether Apple will concede to public complaints and decrease the weight of the new edition remains to be seen.
Sources seem to indicate the iPad 2 will again lack a USB port. There are, however, rumours emerging of a potential SD card port, presumably to allow for direct image viewing from a digital camera or for extended memory – the largest of these providing 32GB at the moment. There will also be a port available on the vertical panel as well as the horizontal, allowing for horizontal docking.
As the iPad 2 hasn’t been unveiled yet, we can’t expect a release date sooner than April or May, with the iPhone 4 white probably being released around June and then the iPhone 5 about September. This spaces Apple’s 2011 release dates fairly evenly.
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