Apple executives have touted the power and screen quality of the new iPad. Without dwelling on its battery, the choice of its name or its compatibility with European 4G networks, noticed bloggers.
What can we learn from the presentation of the new iPad Wednesday? A new high definition display of a stunning quality and a more powerful processor, capable of running the most demanding games, of course. These advances are unaniment hailed by early testers of the tablet.
Other features - not necessarily to the disadvantage of the iPad - were not discussed during the lecture given by Apple executives and are also discussed since Wednesday evening, while other questions remain unanswered. These are summarized below:
• One camera has been improved. It is undeniable: the new iPad takes much better pictures than the iPad 2 and can shoot in high definition (1080p). Its sensor is back in effect increased to 5 megapixels and optical sound is inspired by the iPhone 4S. The front camera, however, does not change, noticed Engadget . The quality is generally poor, close to that proposed smartphone five years ago, believes PCMag .
• The new iPad includes twice the memory. Apple is always very discreet about the amount of RAM built into its phones and tablets, preferring to focus on the user experience on the specifications. Positive: the new iPad happen for the first time to 1 GB of RAM, twice that for the iPhone and the iPad 2 4S, learned The Verge .
• The iPad has a new battery. Apple has indeed confirmed that the new iPad would have the same autonomy as the iPad 2, around ten o'clock in WiFi. But according to ZDNet , the bottom shelf includes a brand new battery, delivers significantly revised upwards (11.666 mAh against 6944 mAh) and more efficient, to support the use of the Retina display. This would explain the way the small increase in weight (50 grams more of the WiFi version).
• Nvidia wants to know the real graphics power. During the conference Apple's head of marketing, Phil Schiller, said the new processor A5X the iPad was four times better than the platform rival Nvidia Tegra 3. Without naming methodology. Asked by ZDNet , an Nvidia spokesman asked Apple to prove his point by publishing a complete test. Another competitor, Asus, remarked on Twitter that Apple's tablet was equipped with four hearts, against twelve for the brand new Asus Transformer. This does not prove, however, that performance will be better ... Transform
• The 4G will not work on future French networks. The iPad is compatible with mobile phone networks, fourth generation. But in the frequency bands of 700 MHz which do not correspond to frequencies allocated to France (800 MHz and 2.6 GHz), note iGeneration . Specifically, the iPad purchased today will not work on future 4G networks to be deployed in the country. They are however compatible with 3G, even in its latest developments, making it the product of Apple's most advanced to date.
• Applications of 50 MB download in 3G. "Apple has made a major change to its App Store and not told anyone," as Business Insider . Henceforth, it will be possible to download applications up to 50 MB instead of 20. What promises to weigh more heavily on operators' networks.
• Apple is trying to stop using Google Maps. In the new iPhoto presented Wednesday, Apple uses its own plans to display the location of more photos and does not use Google Maps. A first, remained very discreet. We know that Apple bought in 2009 a mapping company, Placebase, and more recently a specialist display plans in 3D, C3 Technologies. For now, the rendering seems to be less accurate than Google, the blog notes 512pixels .
• Why not have called the iPad 3, but simply the iPad? This is THE question that torments the largest number of bloggers. Why Apple did he not call his tablet iPad 3, iPad or HD iPad 2S, a preferred name for "odd", asks the blog VentureBeat ? For The Next Web , this is another example of the quest for simplicity of Apple, its advertising does not forward the data sheet for its products and does not compare with the competition. "We do not like being predictable," said Phil Schiller, quoted by a journalist from Fortune on Twitter.
• The Apple logo will he change? On Tuesday, a former Apple marketing executive noted that the company logo, the famous apple, had appeared in a colored version of a poster. During the conference, this new version of the logo was broadcast at the very end of conference, noted bloggers from Gizmodo . Apple has not been expressed on this change of tone. Its historic logo, multicolored, has gradually disappeared from the Mac and communications company between 1998 and 2001.
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