iPad 3 with More Tapered Edge and an 8 Megapixel Back Camera?

[Superken7]

Mmm oooh yeah...

• 2048x1536 264 PPI IPS display
• Quad-core Cortex A9 or A15
• PowerVR SGX643MP1 or MP2
• 1GB LPDDR3 RAM
• 8MP rear camera, 1080p video, 3MP FaceTime camera

That's what I'm hoping for.

I'm not sure 1GB RAM would be enough. I have an original iPad at home (256MB RAM) and it runs out of ram pretty fast. Given how most resources will have 4x pixels, I would say 1GB is a minimum for the iPad 3.

Now, I guess the much faster GPU (with presumably a lot of VRAM) and faster memory bus would make it less painful than an iPad 1, but it would still run out of ram almost just as quickly as an iPad 1, which would not be pretty

I would prefer dual-core (a fast GPU can take care of that big screen) with 2GB of RAM, but since Apple has always been very conservative with ram on their iDevices, I guess 1GB or 1.5GB is more likely

 

[elmo151]

looks like an MBAir

 

[Defender2010]

It's a fake - Chinese knock off.

 

[macchiato2009]

one good lesson to remember about manufacturing in China: don't ever trust Chinese people about intellectual property rights or confidentiality

 

[416049]

It's a fake - Chinese knock off.

Do you know this for sure or are you only assuming?


back to the O.P. with these specs and a similar price i would buy it the second it becomes available to purchase.

 

[smellalot]

I was at a dance competition today. I saw a few parents using an iPad to video their kids on stage.

The best part? After the dance... it's much easier for a group of kids to stand around a 9.7" iPad to watch their performance... instead of squinting at a tiny phone screen.

Do I still think it's silly to hold up an iPad to video? Yes.

But get used to it. It ain't gonna stop!

There should be a feature called LocalCloud for this. The iPad opens a wifi network and the pictures (taken with your iPhone) will be synced locally rather than through the iCloud to the iPad. LocalPhotostream.

 

[SmoMo]

Same here.

I'd like to see an official Apple stylus.

Something I can sketch with on a small scale.

It might sound funny but the #1 reason I bought the original iPad was as a replacement for a sketch pad. Not because I was looking to save money in the long term but I wanted a sketchpad that I could back up.

So it is a shame that all the iPad stylus options have such fat ends to them, and more importantly there is a lag of roughly 1/10th of a second as you are drawing. Which I find makes it too inaccurate to use.

So if there is anyway that Apple can produce an additional stylus that would somehow give the same resolution and response time as a wacom stylus then I'd buy it immediately. I'd even pay a fair bit for it, perhaps 50% of the iPad cost again, which would be reasonable if it really did give me a portable wacom equivalent.

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I'm also surprised that none has brought out a pressure sensitive stylus yet.
I don't know much about engineering but I imagine that the pressure detection could be performed in the stylus that then relayed the information back to the iPad via bluetooth. Perhaps it would be tricky to synchronise the pressure information and the stylus position.

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I only want a stylus to use for sketching btw, the other 99% of the time I use my hands.

 

[speedylomeli]

iPad 3 might be worth getting

This might be the first iPad I get. iPad is in full swing with this model.

 

[HangmanSwingset]

The power button looks hard to hit

They don't want you to use the button. They want you to use the smart cover. Kind of an underhanded technique, IMHO.

 

[gpat]

It sounds like it will be a mind-blowing upgrade. Retina, more power and better camera? What else can we hope for? (I'm not counting LTE, the networks here in Italy are still not up to scratch, but 3G is good enough for my uses)

 

[Superken7]

They don't want you to use the button. They want you to use the smart cover. Kind of an underhanded technique, IMHO.

BTW, I wish they put magnets in the back, so the smart cover would attach itself to the back while you are using the ipad instead of having to hold it. That would be really awesome

 

[rmwebs]

Don't see how they can do a quad-core, retina display, bigger battery and an 8MP camera and still keep the price points the same. I'll believe it when I see it.

Who knows, we may see the iPad 2 being kept on as a 'baseline' 16gb model with the iPad 3 being more expensive and starting at 32gb.

 

[parish]

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If they're going to bother putting an 8 MP camera in it, why can't there be a flash?

Regardless, I think a camera on the back of a tablet is ridiculous. I keep recalling a wedding I went to about a year ago. Some guy had some tablet with him trying to take pictures during the ceremony. It was almost comical.

I agree. I just can't see the point of a rear camera in an iPad (or any tablet) except as a gimmick, but then Apple don't do gimmicks.

The front camera makes sense, even though I personally wouldn't use it.

Cameras in phones make sense. You have your phone with you all the time but as your example if the wedding shows a camera in a tablet are pointless.

I've got an original iPad and will almost certainly be getting an iPad3 if the Retina display rumours are true but I'd rather have a lower price than a rear camera.

 

[MythicFrost]

I'm not sure 1GB RAM would be enough. I have an original iPad at home (256MB RAM) and it runs out of ram pretty fast. Given how most resources will have 4x pixels, I would say 1GB is a minimum for the iPad 3.

Now, I guess the much faster GPU (with presumably a lot of VRAM) and faster memory bus would make it less painful than an iPad 1, but it would still run out of ram almost just as quickly as an iPad 1, which would not be pretty

I would prefer dual-core (a fast GPU can take care of that big screen) with 2GB of RAM, but since Apple has always been very conservative with ram on their iDevices, I guess 1GB or 1.5GB is more likely

It does, but 1GB is quite a bit -- I think it'll last longer than 512MB does on the iPad 2.

 

[seong]

Mmm oooh yeah...

• 2048x1536 264 PPI IPS display
• Quad-core Cortex A9 or A15
• PowerVR SGX643MP1 or MP2
• 1GB LPDDR3 RAM
• 8MP rear camera, 1080p video, 3MP FaceTime camera

That's what I'm hoping for.

I think this is going to be one of the biggest improvement from generation to another generation out of all iDevices! Can't wait to see what iPad 3 will actually offer!
Thanks Steve, for bringing us the most innovative device!

 

[pmau]

Maybe they don't use it because it's crap.

Yes. But to build a good camera you need SPACE.

I never understood why people think that a device so thin could be as good as a real camera with real optics.

It's a gimmick to do facetime or take a snapshot. I would never expect anzthing good out of such a thin device.

You need a good camera? Buy one
(This remark has nothing to do with the remark I quoted, just wanted to make a point)

 

[Neodym]

It's funny that people only think of taking photos or scanning documents when it comes to the back camera.

How about some kind of tour guide? You point the iPad at some building and it recognizes it (together with GPS and compass), giving you information about that building?

Or a routing device, where you lift your iPad and point in the direction you are walking, so the iPad can show your next exit in that small town with lots of tiny alleyways?

In both cases a better back camera would also help in analyzing the scene. It may not need to be 8MP, but from an economies of scale POV it would make less sense to stick with a lower spec cam if one is already using a higher spec cam on another device selling in the millions...

The could well be other use cases for an improved back cam I currently don't think of.

Even taking pictures would not be that bad to me - imagine you are doing something on the iPad (reading, surfing the net, playing, using it as tour guide etc.) and suddenly you want to capture something in front of you. It'd be easier to simply lift the iPad than getting your camera/phone out of the pocket...

 

[Lesser Evets]

This just seems too good to be true: 8MP camera, retina display, (probably) more memory, upgraded processor... and there will certainly be other little improvements. With similar battery life?? SAME PRICE??

It seems like Santa Claus-type magic.

If they keep the price, I wonder if they are selling at the cost of production for hopes of getting money from selling more apps/music/movies/etc.

These specs would make this iPad the version which trounces all competition, definitively, as the iPad sales zoom upwards. With Apple's hardware and software so advanced and polished, the alternate makers of such devices are a decade behind.

Can't wait to see idiots using their iPad as a camera everywhere. 8 MP? Jesus. I doubt it but who knows.

You hold it up, you take a picture. The iPad isn't much wider than most of the old video cameras from early VHS days, but it far thinner and lighter. What would the fear be? That someone SEES you taking a photo? OHZNOES... the shame.

What the iPad3 could become is an all-in-one HD 1080 video suite. It depends on the camera (8MP? Could this be real?) and how those pixels are utilized to make the image on screen. You shoot video, edit, output, right on the pad, and you have resolution to see! The biggest problem with iPhone-cams and other small-screen cameras is that you can take a photo and the screen is so small that you don't see detail which later, on a full screen or in print, looks crap. The iPad3 will be a camera that will improve on that.

Yeah, you look like you are holding up an iPad and taking a picture... have you seen the tattoos on people these days? No one gives a ******.

 

[pmau]

It probably will have LTE as an option

I'm pretty sure it will have LTE as an option. It's far more advanced to build a phone with LTE and GSM because you need the chips to cover all frequencies.

The iPad has a bigger battery than any phone, so field testing LTE features on such a device would be great. This way they can gather data before rolling out the next iPhone.

With the availability of LTE in mind, I still doubt there will be an iPhone5 with LTE... But of course I might be wrong.

 

[Skoopman]

one good lesson to remember about manufacturing in China: don't ever trust Chinese people about intellectual property rights or confidentiality

And you think if they made it in the US, pictures and information would not be leaked? Grow up.

I really hope the iPad 3 has 2 GB RAM. RAM is pretty cheap these days, but I don't really see Apple putting 2 gigs in it's iPad

 

[parish]

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All 3 what?

And how would you use an 8 Mp camera on an iPad ?

I have iPad 1, iPad 2, and probably getting iPad 3. I am also a photographer and the camera would be great to use when I don't have my dslr.

I use the 8Mpx camera in my iPhone 4S when I don't have my DSLR with me and it's a whole lot easier to carry around with me than my iPad.

As for people bemoaning the (alleged) lack of flash I dont think it's a big deal. I have the flash turned off on my 4S and it still takes good pics even in low lighting. Need a bit of PP to fix the white balance but that's all. Small flash units have such a short range that they're only really good for close ups.

 

[Asia8]

Why would there be no writing below the Apple logo? Where is the iPad name and other info? Aren't they required by law to have the recycling info / symbols somewhere - where could they have hidden it? I like it this way (looks much cleaner), but still curious. They should employ this across the line for all iOS devices. I always thought the "writing" looked tacky right there on the back. At least the iPod nano manages to hide it behind the clip.

Well, ProView can't do anything about it if it doesn't say iPad on it. It could possibly be labelled later outside the country, after the case is over, or... not at all?

 

[zarusoba]

I recently backed a Kickstarter project for the first time. The unfortunately-named jaja is the first pressure sensitive stylus for iPad:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonatherton/jaja-worlds-first-pressure-sensitive-stylus-for-ip

The closest I think we'll get to an "official" Apple stylus would be another Kickstarter project, iPen. It doesn't have pressure sensitivity, but they say they'll add this in the next iteration.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipen/ipen-the-first-active-stylus-for-ipad?ref=users

Apparently the latest version of Android has pressure sensitive stylus support, so it will interesting to see what else transpires this year.

It might sound funny but the #1 reason I bought the original iPad was as a replacement for a sketch pad. Not because I was looking to save money in the long term but I wanted a sketchpad that I could back up.

So it is a shame that all the iPad stylus options have such fat ends to them, and more importantly there is a lag of roughly 1/10th of a second as you are drawing. Which I find makes it too inaccurate to use.

So if there is anyway that Apple can produce an additional stylus that would somehow give the same resolution and response time as a wacom stylus then I'd buy it immediately. I'd even pay a fair bit for it, perhaps 50% of the iPad cost again, which would be reasonable if it really did give me a portable wacom equivalent.

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I'm also surprised that none has brought out a pressure sensitive stylus yet.
I don't know much about engineering but I imagine that the pressure detection could be performed in the stylus that then relayed the information back to the iPad via bluetooth. Perhaps it would be tricky to synchronise the pressure information and the stylus position.

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I only want a stylus to use for sketching btw, the other 99% of the time I use my hands.

 

[tmarks11]

How often does apple make a generation-leaping, revolutionary change in it's annual product upgrade?

Almost never.

Quad core, 8MP camera, retina display, LTE? Pick 1 of the 4. And next year pick another 1 of the 4. My best Guess is quad core this year. I will buy it anyway, and so will you.

My vote is that LTE will be on the iPad 4G next year. Catchy.

With Apple's hardware and software so advanced and polished, the alternate makers of such devices are a decade behind...

Uhh, no. Did you use any pda or ppc or any other tablet like object of any size from 2002? They sucked compared to anything that is the worst tablet example being sold today.

3 years behind? Yes. A decade? Please.

 

[KoolKid]

You would think that with a high resolution display as the retina, Apple would have a high res camera on the Ipad, but I don't think so. At least not an 8 meg.
I think 3.2 or 5 megapixels for the Ipad 3 at best. Apple are known to be sufficient, or cheap as I would like to call it, when it comes to certain matters.

But hey, people will still be happy about it. I think the camera on the Ipad 2 is all right.