Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Silverman: The screen's the thing on new iPad

Sure, the screen was brighter and its colors richer, but the pixel count hadn't gone up. Apple has equipped the new iPad with the optional ability to connect to newer, faster 4G LTE networks from Verizon and AT&T. As with the earlier models, which worked with slower 3G networks, it's still a pay-as-you go deal - you only need to buy data access if you need it, and there's no contract. The least you'll pay is AT&T's base rate of $15 for a piddling 250 megabytes, or $20 for 2 gigabytes from Verizon, but you could pay as much as $50 a month for 5 gigabytes of data from both carriers. (The original iPad didn't have a camera at all.) The rear camera on the new iPad has 5 megapixels, like the iPhone 4, but has some of the optical features found in the superior iPhone 4S. There's a beefed-up chip inside, Apple's own dual-core A5X, and a quad-core graphics processor. With a pixel-packed screen, 4G connectivity and faster graphics, the iPad should have worse battery life, but Apple has bulked up the size of the battery to compensate, which makes the new tablet a bit thicker and heavier. In my tests, the battery life was comparable to the iPad 2 and better than the iPad 1. iPad 2 users will, however, notice the increased weight. If you've got an iPad 1 and use it to read e-books, websites and content in apps and you're not happy with the way text looks on it - run, do not walk, to buy one of these.

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