Hopefully they'll dump 16gb completely and go 32/64/128gb in the current 16/32/64gb price slots.
16gb really has no place in a 'retina' age.
As nice as this all sounds, the original iPad is mostly dead to me.
the Mini is the perfect balance of form and function; bring on the next generation mini with a retina screen and comparable battery life.
As nice as this all sounds, the original iPad is mostly dead to me.
the Mini is the perfect balance of form and function; bring on the next generation mini with a retina screen and comparable battery life.
I feel the same way. Having both a full size iPad and a mini, my full size iPad almost never gets used.
I had the iPad 2 but sold it, as I have a MacBook Air which I use for everything. iOS touch based apps are gimmicky, and being a touch typer for many years, the no tactile feedback for the Ipad is a sore point. I also don't use many of the apps on the
As for this obsession with lighter and thinner, this is going to hit a brick wall one day as whenever this method is used, something has to be removed or rolled backwards - aka the LED backlight. Having two LED backlights is better for colour and light balance, and yes it uses more power, but you just increase the battery capacity to compensate for it. Cutting this back to one LED means saturation might suffer, and the BLU (Back Lighting Unit) wont cover as evenly as two of them, which means image integrity may suffer - all because we are chasing size over functionality. I wonder what happened to the Sharp IGZO display?
As for the bezel, the original reason why the Bezel was wider is to support your fingers / thumb better, otherwise you actually touch the screen inside the viewing area which negates the point having a bezel. Bezel's these days are mostly used to house display electronics and wireless cards.
Too late.
6 months into 2013 no new products.
No wonder Apple have had a profit fall.![]()
I feel the same way. Having both a full size iPad and a mini, my full size iPad almost never gets used.
Let's just give them wings and call them "Maxi iPads".
"Obsession with thinner and lighter".
Yes, most people prefer their portable devices to be thinner and lighter. Apple should make a special version just for you, thicker and heavier.
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Too late?... Really?
I know this is sarcasm, but yes indeed it is innovative. Such a high resolution display with such performance, battery life in such a thin and light device is truly innovative. Just look at all the Samsung, Sony and Google tablets out there, they are inferior on all those aspects.how innovative haha
No, the total thinness is 0.2mm down from the 0.25mm of the iPad 4.
I agree, the sentence is a little hard to get. I re-read it a few times.
I have a MacBook Air which I use for everything. iOS touch based apps are gimmicky
the no tactile feedback for the Ipad is a sore point.
I also don't use many of the apps on the iPad.
As for this obsession with lighter and thinner,
this is going to hit a brick wall one day as whenever this method is used, something has to be removed or rolled backwards - aka the LED backlight.
Having two LED backlights is better for colour and light balance, and yes it uses more power, but you just increase the battery capacity to compensate for it. Cutting this back to one LED means saturation might suffer, and the BLU (Back Lighting Unit) wont cover as evenly as two of them, which means image integrity may suffer
because we are chasing size over functionality.
As for the bezel, the original reason why the Bezel was wider is to support your fingers / thumb better, otherwise you actually touch the screen inside the viewing area which negates the point having a bezel.
I'm in the other camp, I use my full size iPad occasionally as a "netbook" replacement and I can type pretty quickly "desktop style" on the normal sized virtual keyboard, and I also do a good bit of remote controlling of desktop machines so having the larger size helps there as well. The only thing I really wanted was for the large size iPad to lose some major weight and ~30% is quite a bit.
I think that uneven backlighting may actually be caused by having two light bars, since not every light bar is a 100% the same.Some already complain about uneven colors/backlighting in their iPads.. now they are changing to just 1 light bar?
Too late.
6 months into 2013 no new products.
No wonder Apple have had a profit fall.![]()
I had the iPad 2 but sold it, as I have a MacBook Air which I use for everything. iOS touch based apps are gimmicky, and being a touch typer for many years, the no tactile feedback for the Ipad is a sore point. I also don't use many of the apps on the iPad.
As for this obsession with lighter and thinner, this is going to hit a brick wall one day as whenever this method is used, something has to be removed or rolled backwards - aka the LED backlight. Having two LED backlights is better for colour and light balance, and yes it uses more power, but you just increase the battery capacity to compensate for it. Cutting this back to one LED means saturation might suffer, and the BLU (Back Lighting Unit) wont cover as evenly as two of them, which means image integrity may suffer - all because we are chasing size over functionality. I wonder what happened to the Sharp IGZO display?
As for the bezel, the original reason why the Bezel was wider is to support your fingers / thumb better, otherwise you actually touch the screen inside the viewing area which negates the point having a bezel. Bezel's these days are mostly used to house display electronics and wireless cards.