Apple has announced its long anticipated iPad 2 Tablet which is the successor of the original iPad. When compared to the first iPad, the iPad 2 is thinner, lighter and more powerful. It measures a mere 8.8mm thick and weight in at approximately 1.3 pounds with the original iPad weighing 1.5 pounds. It packs the power of a dual-core Apple A5 processor that according to Apple is two times (2X) faster than the processor found in the original iPad, it offers 900 percent faster graphics plus they have also added a gyroscope which can be found in the new versions of the iPhone and iPod touch plus other competitions such as the Motorola Xoom and Web Cameras as well. Read more…
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Apple on Wednesday launched the iPad 2, a thinner, lighter and faster upgrade of the popular tablet.
The iPad 2 weighs 1.3 pounds, just 0.2 pounds lighter than the previous iPad.
Rumors are flying fast that Apple are prepping the iPad 2 for a late January, early February release. Of course Apple have not confirmed any of the rumors, but when have they ever done that?
Founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, has stated that a source close to him is indicating a February 1st release. Other news on the iPad 2 is obviously the ‘square’ shape compared to the curvy design of the original (like the iPhone 3G/S to the iPhone 4). Also included in the rumor mill for the iPad 2 is a higher resolution display and dual cameras (front and back) for some FaceTime-action. <
Apple has updated its multitouch-enabled iWork suite for iPad with an improved Microsoft Office compatibility, richer editing features, support for MobileMe iDisk cloud storage and other WebDAV servers, and more.
MobileMe subscribers can now take advantage of iDisk cloud storage to copy documents from iWork apps, a handy feature that bypasses iTunes to keep your documents synchronized between an iPad and desktop. Exporting capabilities have been enhanced with improved Microsoft Office compatibility across all iWork apps, providing a greater compatibility with Microsoft’s productivity suite. A
Sure, the iPad is a great device for Web surfing, book reading, and movie watching. But it’s also getting a lot of interest in corporations as a possible business device for field forces, nurses and doctors in hospitals, and knowledge workers in the office and on the go.
That interest is obvious from the top iPad downloads from the Apple App Store, where Citrix Receiver, an app that makes the iPad a portal to server-based apps such as Microsoft Office and SharePoint, has stayed in the top five almost every day. Also in that top-downloads list are Apple’s iWork productivity trio (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) and two Microsoft Office-compatible productivity apps (Quickoffice Mobile Connect Suite and DataViz Documents to Go Premium).