Apple iPad 2 Coming March 11th – A5 Dual-Core CPU w/ HDMI Out, Same Price & Battery Life
Apple has officially announced the new Apple iPad 2! It’s thinner and lighter, dropping from 1.5 pounds to a mere 1.3 pounds. When launched on March 11th, 2011 it will be available in both black and white! Models of the iPad 2 will be available that work on both AT&T and Verizon Wireless will be ready on day one. The Apple iPad 2 will be using the new Apple A5 dual-core processor with twice as much CPU performance and 9x video performance. The iPad 2 will also maintain the same battery life — about 10 hours — as the first iPad, and up to a month of standby. Also preserved is the $499 price for a 16GB, same when the first iPad launched. Wi-Fi iPads at 16GB, 32GB and 64G are $499, $599 and $699 respectively. The new iPad 2 also comes with an optional HDMI out adapter that will retail for $39. Along with the iPad 2, the company also is releasing the next release of iOS 4.3! Lots of Apple news porung out from the press event and we’ll be sure to post up the press release as soon as it comes across the wire!
“Now here we are adding stuff into the iPad. Cameras, faster CPUs, gyroscope and all this stuff. We’ve made it way thinner. Something’s gotta give. You would think we’d have to give up battery life. But we found a way… the same battery life as the original iPad.”
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