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iPad 3 with LTE, Quad-Core Processor and Retina Display Set for March Launch
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I've never seen Apple deliver THREE MAJOR hardware updates in one revision EVER. There is no way that the iPad 3 has LTE, Retina AND quad core. They will save something for iPad 4. I think quad core is certain and Retina is likely - my guess is that we do not get LTE.
But I hope I'm wrong.
If they also add 1 GB RAM and 128 GB flash, my head will explode.
Tony
But I hope I'm wrong.
If they also add 1 GB RAM and 128 GB flash, my head will explode.Tony
Hmmm...how odd. Considering these responses you would be led to believe that Specs do matter to the blind followers after all. Oh wait, I see now, it only matters to them if they are in position of said specs.
Oh and it seems none of them are bothered with the possibility of a new iPad so soon. Unlike how they can't stand how android devices seem to get updated so often. How odd indeed....
Oh and it seems none of them are bothered with the possibility of a new iPad so soon. Unlike how they can't stand how android devices seem to get updated so often. How odd indeed....
I've never seen Apple deliver THREE MAJOR hardware updates in one revision EVER. There is no way that the iPad 3 has LTE, Retina AND quad core. They will save something for iPad 4. I think quad core is likely - my guess is that we do not get either LTE.
But I hope I'm wrong.
Tony
Yeah even numbered revisions of Apple products usually get the nice updates, but we'll see.
Uhm... what? I think there's some confusion here.
Tegra 3 is an ARM A9 based design, just like Apple's A5 chip.
A15 is just a more advanced architecture, which means it will have a faster performance per core plus optimizations for power consumption and additional instruction sets. It has nothing to do with the amount of cores you can put together on a chip. Both A9 and A15 can be used in quad-core configurations.
Apple's next chip (A6 or whatever they'll call it) will very most likely also be A9 based. You've already said it: A15 will probably not fully materialize for several months, probably not even this year.
Why? That seems like arbitrary spec quoting to me... Apple's track record is pretty good at doing whatever is necessary under the hood to make the user experience more than nimble. I don't care if it has 1MB or 1TB of RAM.
Not true. Just to name a product: iPhone 4. Retina display. Finally a good, powerful 5 megapixel camera. LED flash. Front facing camera. IPS display (high contrast, wide viewing angles).I've never seen Apple deliver THREE MAJOR hardware updates in one revision EVER. There is no way that the iPad 3 has LTE, Retina AND quad core. They will save something for iPad 4. I think quad core is certain and Retina is likely - my guess is that we do not get LTE.
But I hope I'm wrong.
Tony
Even if the next iPad had 512mb of ram, you wouldn't really notice because of the A6 (quad-core?).
RAM doesn't handle graphics, the graphics card does.
Sounds all good; i'm in.
I'm just not sure if we get one in Japan or face a delay.
If LTE: it would mean no carrierer around as neither SoftBank nor au can provide LTE. Only NTT docomo has. So they would need to become a player. They have already the Samsung LTE tablet today.
But I still have hope ...
I'm just not sure if we get one in Japan or face a delay.
If LTE: it would mean no carrierer around as neither SoftBank nor au can provide LTE. Only NTT docomo has. So they would need to become a player. They have already the Samsung LTE tablet today.
But I still have hope ...
Oh, yes you do. If you ever get your hands-on an iPad first gen. with iOS 5..
We always need more processing power to bring on bigger applications that do more. You're assuming that the power consumption of a Quad Core processor is significantly higher which is a WAG here. Quad Cores need only work within a power envelope. My iPad 2 last as long as my first gen iPad despite having much better graphics and a second processing core. Let's not base out opinions around unfounded and misguided assumptions
Competition hasn't closed the gap? Try straying beyond mac only coverage.
http://en.akihabaranews.com/94696/d...300dpi-wqxga-pentile-prototype-tablet-display
The competition isn't sleeping.
I've never seen Apple deliver THREE MAJOR hardware updates in one revision EVER. There is no way that the iPad 3 has LTE, Retina AND quad core. They will save something for iPad 4. I think quad core is certain and Retina is likely - my guess is that we do not get LTE.
But I hope I'm wrong.
Tony
What's so major about LTE? It's already shipping in products. Quad Core ...the Cortex A9 has had Quad Core designs from the beginning. Retina display is the major item here the other two are pretty much evolutionary and already available.
I don't consider anything related to camera updates as major. And Retina / IPS is one thing (screen update). So that's just one type of thing (display) - even if you consider the camera updates as major, that's just two types of things.
Never 3.
LTE will be in the iPhone 4 first.Tony
Agreed, but I don't think that chip exists today given the different standards. One thing about putting LTE in a tablet is that battery life isn't as big an issue.
RAM does matter, however. Browsing Safari requires quite some RAM. Multitasking requires quite some RAM.Even if the next iPad had 512mb of ram, you wouldn't really notice because of the A6 (quad-core?).
RAM doesn't handle graphics, the graphics card does.
And yes, the higher resolution display will be more demanding on the RAM. For example, when you close an app with multitasking support (the 'sleeping'-in-background kind), than it makes a picture and saves this in your RAM memory. These pictures will now contain four times as many pixels as before, and thus you will run out of memory faster.
Gaming. Also requires a lot of RAM, and if textures and stuff are four times as detailed, it will again require more RAM. 1 GB is a must, really.
That's the exact iPad I use all the time, and I have zero problems with it. The wife has an iPad2 so I know what I'd be comparing it against.
1GB of memory still makes a tradeoff vs. battery life. The life on the iPad1 is insane. If we get *both* 1GB RAM and LTE, I could see that taking a huge toll on battery life.
