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iPad 3 with LTE, Quad-Core Processor and Retina Display Set for March Launch

Tones2 said:
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
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iPhone 3G than. Brand new design. It got GPS (which was huge back than). It got 3G support. iPhone 3G's display was better than iPhone first gen's display (better viewing angles, slightly better colours). Significantly improved speakers.

And sure, you could argue that camera updates aren't major. Adding another camera was huge. It now is 'standard' for Apple users, but when Apple added the front facing camera the whole Apple community was like "wow, what, wauw, never! wow, omg!".

And make no mistake, IPS and retina display are different. iPod touch has a retina display, but no IPS. iPhone 4 got two screen updates, not one. You could see this as one upgrade but it really is two.

So for iPhone 4 I now have this as 'major': front facing camera, retina display, and IPS support.

Let's add another one: A4 processor. This was huge as well. Much higher clock speeds. New process line (this is really major). More power-efficient. More RAM.

So: front facing camera, retina display with IPS and A4 processor.
 
chrf097 said:
LTE is pretty much a requirement now. If Apple fails to include 4G LTE, they're going to be hurting their sales, ESPECIALLY the Verizon version's sales as they pretty much now have full nationwide 4G LTE.
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Only half of all iPads sold have a sim card, and only about half of these are sold in the US*. And less than half of these are sold to Verizon customers. And an unknown number < 100% of these is actually LTE covered or will be in the near future. How on earth is LTE a 'requirement'?

* LTE is not deployed as widely in most other countries.
 
Raineer said:
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.
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I don't want to really argue with you, but you do realize more RAM barely uses more energy? It's not like when the iPad 3 gets 1 GB of RAM, battery life will be 5 hours.

Also, don't forget that all production processes are moving to a 32 nm line at Samsung. This means the A6 processor will use less energy and give better performance.
 
gri said:
So, does that meant he iPhone 5 will have no LTE?
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No, it means what the article said; that the iPad will get LTE before the iPhone. Nothing more or less than that but I'd bet the next iPhone is LTE compatible.
 
Come to butthead

Droid whaah? Better catch up robot clowns.
I hope that they upgrade the camera as well, but it doesn't matter, because I'll buy it anyway. MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH
 
gri said:
So, does that meant he iPhone 5 will have no LTE?
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There is no conclusion about the next-generation iPhone that can be made from rumors about the next generation iPad.

LTE availability on any device will be subject to the availability of appropriate chipsets at the time of that device's production. Since we don't know the release dates, we don't know about whether or not those devices would have suitable LTE chips to include.

It is highly likely that these next generation devices will not use the LTE chips that are installed in current devices. Tim Cook already touched on this last year and there has not been a release of new chips to this date.
 
More pixels than SOME high-definition TV's? As if HDTV's have lots of different resolutions. Unless you've got a 4k monster, it'll have more pixels than basically ALL HDTV's.
 
chrmjenkins said:
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Quad core would suggest a tegra 3 like design. If it is 32nm, they are still with Samsung, but if it is 28nm, that suggests TSMC. A15 is very unlikely if it is indeed quad core. I'm interested to see if they implemented heterogenous multiprocessing like tegra 3 did. They may also go to 543MP4 with the die shrink.
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I hope it runs apps like my iPad 2. Don't try to sound smart with your techno mumbo jumbo.:D
 
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Wow that retina displays going to be something...
 
BC2009 said:
That would be sweet to see Tim Cook taking credit cards at the Apple Store.

Seriously though.... I'm more interested in graphics performance improvements over quad-versus-dual-core. Quad core would be great, but I'm betting most iPad apps don't even take advantage of two cores because they simply don't need to do anything concurrently.

LTE would be awesome. I had an AT&T first-gen iPad, but whenever I travelled I had no coverage. I bought a Verizon iPad 2, but the CDMA performance is sometimes painfully slow. I'd like to stick with Verizon as my data provider for iPad, but get LTE support. Incidentally, my iPhone is with AT&T on a grand-fathered unlimited data plan.
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This will be my first iPad. Like you my iPhone 4S is grandfathered from my iPhone 3GS on AT&T. But I was going to go with Verizon for the iPad since they offer more GB in their plans. But now you got me worrying since I'm used to GSM on AT&T. I'll never go off GSM on an iPhone I like to have phone and Internet same time. But wouldn't have to worry about that with an iPad. Are the Verizon iPad a lot slower than the AT&T ?
 
whats wrong with thickness???

those hating the idea of a thicker iPad are being a little bit silly,
you all want more ram, quad-core LTE etc.
but don't want a thicker device?
in order to gain greatness sometimes you have to give something up.
and it may be just a little bit of extra thickness thats fine.

to be honest i think the iPad2 is too thin
 
ImpostorOak said:
I would have a hard time believing it would be thicker, but it's definitely more likely now than it would have been a few years ago. Steve Jobs would never have let a regression like that happen. They made a huge deal out of the second one being so much thinner. Heads would have rolled if the engineers tried to tell him that they needed to make the new one thicker.
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100% agreed. Steve Jobs would have never let this happen. I hope it won't be thicker, it will be a bad sign of things to come.
 
It looks like the right time to invest in an iPad. The first two were nice but this one has just about everything you could ask for.

There still aren't any reasonable competitors on the market yet, and I don't see Dell or HP being able to match this anytime soon. Blackberry have got to do something interesting in the near future if they wish to remain relevant, the Playbook was terrible.
 
The main advantage to LTE is less time doing I/O not total throughput per user per month. The throughput is likely to almost double based on my purchase of a Verizon hot spot over something else, But the iPhone 4S users use double the data of prior model iPhone users, without any network speed increase of note.

When the network is 10x faster people spend 5x less time on it so it can accept more users or better accept peak usage. That is the prime benefit of 4G LTE.

The "excessive" users will love the momentary speed increases and be even more abusive unless throttled. But that under 10% of the market is not what we should focus on when considering how we enjoy the typical experience of the device.

To me this device is a seminal change in the category. Quad core means almost all waiting ends. LTE means almost all waiting ends and almost all network congestion goes away.

My interest is in if the graphics are themselves sufficient to let it act as an Apple TV to an external 1080p screen, even if only one at a time.

Rocketman
 
scott911 said:
that's a lot of pixels...

I'm in the market for a 27" display - and I don't think I'm seeing the number of pixels offered as there will be on the ipad3.

I suspect regular monitor display will need to kick it up a notch from the number's that are now common place.
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Keep in mind that the pixel density is higher when your face is expected to be closer to the screen.

I'm using a 27" iMac and the resolution is good enough considering I sit about twice as far away as I do from my MBP. However, I really expect to see Apple double the resolution of the laptops as well this year because that's where the market growth and heavy competition is at.
 
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