Category Archives: iPad 3rd Gen. (New iPad)
Apple Has Sold 3 Million iPads (3rd-Gen) Since Its Launch On Friday
Earlier today, Tim Cook revealed that sales of the third installment of his company’s iPad tablet were the fastest to date, although refused to disclose exactly how many of the Retina-toting devices had been sold.
By means of a press release, though, the Cupertino has posted sales figures of three million – not bad – especially considering it’s only been retailing for four days.
As is the case with nearly all major Apple releases, fans and devotees queued through the night of last Thursday in order to be among the first to get their hands on the new iPad. Apple’s iPhone 4S was the fastest-selling smartphone of all time back in October, and it seems the current behind the California-based giant is getting stronger and stronger with each new product release.
Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing, said:
iPad (3rd-Gen) Vs. iPad 2 – Drop Test From Six Feet Onto Concrete [VIDEO]
Since Apple announced the new iPad nearly two weeks ago, the tech world has been inundated with questions – many of which have been answered with the subsequent release.
Does it overheat? How long does the battery really last? How much RAM does it have? These are all valid queries – especially considering the kind of money that Apple wants you to pay for one. Indeed, purchasing an iPad is just the beginning of the expense, for you need apps, music, videos, games, a cool decent case, insurance, and – if you’re looking for a cellular connection – a data plan.
Being such an expensive gig has left many consumers priced out of the market – at least for the time being. Thus, the following video – which tests to see which of the iPad 2 and the new iPad comes to the most harm when dropped from various different heights – may just be a little too much for some viewers:
This is not our review of the new iPad
There are lots of reviews of the new iPad. Lots and lots. My review? In deeply abbreviated form, here it is:
The screen is amazing. You must see it before you make up your mind. It’s pretty much every superlative people have thrown at it, aside from the glare and brightness all of these suffer from in direct sunlight. Everything else is nearly the same as the iPad 2, save slightly more weight and thickness, but if you’re going from an iPad 1 to the new one (as I did), you won’t be bothered a bit — you’re still saving weight and thickness over the first-gen.
Giving your former iPad to a spouse or family member: the quick guide
My wife is thrilled with the “new” iPad 2 she inherited when my new iPad arrived. I wanted to configure it for her so she could get up and running, so I thought I would just change a few settings here or there and give it to her using my settings. After about 30 minutes of tweaking, I decided to start over from scratch.
The reason is simple: there are just so many settings underlying the personalization of the iPad that un-doing them all was nearly impossible. It was much easier to add the things that I knew she would want rather than remove the things that she might not. Even the things that I knew I wanted to change, like Messages, left residual effects behind. For example, Spotlight had cached my iMessages, and continued to show them even after I had logged out of my iCloud account and into my wife’s.
Long story short: start clean, sync back the apps and media you want to keep, and work from there. Here’s how.
Backup your iPad and transfer purchases from iPad (optional)
Before you reset the iPad, you probably want to back it up and transfer all
A Closer Look Inside The New iPad Reveals iPhone 4′s 5MP Camera, iPad 2′s 0.3MP Front-Facing Camera & Lots More
The teardown of the 3rd generation iPad by iFixit revealed that Apple’s new iPad has 1GB (double that of iPad 2), comes with Qualcomm’s MDM9600 baseband chip and a much larger battery.
Folks at Chipworks have picked up from where iFixit left off. They have taken an even closer look inside the new iPad, which has revealed some interesting details. Here are some of the highlights:
- The new iPad comes with a vastly improved 5 megapixel camera. However, Chipworks reports that we’ve seen it before.
It is very likely that Apple has recycled the 5 Mp back illuminated CMOS image sensor from the iPhone 4. That unit was the Omnivision OV5650. The OV5650 is the second generation back illumination (BSI) technology from OmniVision. This 5 Mp camera features 1.75 µm pixels, and is designed to deliver DSC quality in a mobile phone application. The sensor supports HD (1080p) video at 60 fps. Apple specifications for the new iPad also tout the same specification. So the analysis we have just completed . . . drum roll please . . . says that the 5 Mp back illuminated CMOS image sensor in the new iPad is the same, it is the Omnivision OV5650 (die markings OV290BF).