Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Over the past few days, Ming-Chi Kuo of Harmony Securities printed a letter explaining what he thinks would be the characteristic set of the coming iPad 2, based on data coming from "reliable" sources.
To many folks's discouragement and as outlined by fairly a few on-line internet websites over previous several weeks a long hoped for iPad 2 will NOT provide you with a retina display. As a substitute 'they' loaded it with the similar high quality nonetheless a bit of slimmer display as a 1st era iPad. Keep in mind that Apple's show suppliers - Samsung and LG - will offer you higher shows although, as the brand new screens are expected to be a few third thinner than their first generation iPad counterparts, and may carry out a lot better outdoor, thanks to a brand new anti-reflective coating.
A brand new twin-core processor may even be an ideal characteristic of a brand new iPad 2. ARM Cortex-A9 based mostly processor operating at 1.2 GHz and referred to as Apple A5. Compared to a brand new processor, both iPhone 4 and first era iPad use the Apple A4 processor that offers a single core and operating at 1GHz,additionally based mostly on the older ARM Cortex A8 architecture. Just like the Apple A4, the Apple A5 will embrace a PowerVR graphics engine, however the brand new iPad 2 processor is anticipated to include the newer SGX543 from Creativeness Technologies.
As for the iPad 2 cameras, the report suggests that the gadget will give you precisely the identical set of cameras found within the fourth era iPod touch - VGA resolution for the front digicam, and about 1MP for the again digicam
