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New iPad 3 Front Glass Photos Show Black and White Options, Home Button
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Why does everyone need to know you upgraded?
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Bluetooth is near useless on iDevices because Apple locks down what you can do with it so much.
Exactly. I remember downloading high-res pictures of some iPhone or iPod touch on Apple's press site, and when I opened them in Photoshop there was tons of bezier clipping masks all over the device (that they forgot to remove), indicating that this thing was heavily Photoshoped.
And touch?
I had the same momentary panic that many did about the phantom home button, and thankfully I have returned to my senses. I now firmly believe that the button remains... for now. But those who think it's iconic nature means Apple will never get rid of it are wrong. I present the Click Wheel. It will stay as long as it makes sense for it to stay and no longer. That's what makes Apple, Apple.
What I am still very intrigued by, more than the photo on the invite, is the words on the invite. Specifically "And Touch."
What are they hinting about there, the invite is enough without the second sentence. 3 iPads and 5 iPhones in, we all know that they are to be touched.
Apple believes in the simplest messaging possible, so why add to a clear message (...someting you have to see), unless they have something new in touch to show us, and what could that be?
They always use the invites to actually frame the presentation, and they want us thinking about touch.
I had the same momentary panic that many did about the phantom home button, and thankfully I have returned to my senses. I now firmly believe that the button remains... for now. But those who think it's iconic nature means Apple will never get rid of it are wrong. I present the Click Wheel. It will stay as long as it makes sense for it to stay and no longer. That's what makes Apple, Apple.
What I am still very intrigued by, more than the photo on the invite, is the words on the invite. Specifically "And Touch."
What are they hinting about there, the invite is enough without the second sentence. 3 iPads and 5 iPhones in, we all know that they are to be touched.
Apple believes in the simplest messaging possible, so why add to a clear message (...someting you have to see), unless they have something new in touch to show us, and what could that be?
They always use the invites to actually frame the presentation, and they want us thinking about touch.
Yes, clearly a TV with a home button.
You control it with a long stick from your couch at a distance of 1080 inches.
Or, if you have kids you can keep sending them to push the button. Good for fitness.
Todays generation is overweight at an early age anyway.
I'm going to get a white one, according to those photo's it has a home button at the top of the screen instead of the bottom 
I Want the home button to be there... that one of the things that makes this an APPLE device
Actually, if the Home button was a backlit Apple logo, that would be quite cool. Of course, it'd need to rotate when you switched to landscape orientation...
Im sure this baby will come with some RIDICULOUSLY gorgeous wallapers to show off the display. =)
No, the madness is just starting!
"Have you seen, on the white iPad, the Home button is at the top. AT. THE. TOP!! What could that mean?!?"
And they put the dock connector at the top as well. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????
Is the front facing camera in the iPad 3 supposed to be the same as the iPad 2 ?
These pics seem to imply that.
These pics seem to imply that.
Home Button?
(sarcasm)
These are obviously fake!
They have a home button for god's sake!
And everyone that's looked at the Apple invite KNOWS there won't be a home button! I mean, LOOK AT THE BUBBLES!!! The BUBBLES are the key!
It's totally IMPOSSIBLE that Apple would ever change a wallpaper image! They don't have that kind of money!!! Do you know how hard it would be to change a wallpaper image??? How many CSI consultants would need to be paid????? "CSI it" doesn't just happen by itself you know!
(/sarcasm)
;-)
Seriously tho, enough is enough. Just take my money already and stop teasing me!
(sarcasm)
These are obviously fake!
They have a home button for god's sake!
And everyone that's looked at the Apple invite KNOWS there won't be a home button! I mean, LOOK AT THE BUBBLES!!! The BUBBLES are the key!
It's totally IMPOSSIBLE that Apple would ever change a wallpaper image! They don't have that kind of money!!! Do you know how hard it would be to change a wallpaper image??? How many CSI consultants would need to be paid????? "CSI it" doesn't just happen by itself you know!
(/sarcasm)
;-)
Seriously tho, enough is enough. Just take my money already and stop teasing me!
Which is why I'm skeptical about these parts being iPad3/HD parts. I see no evidence of this - they could easily be iPad2 parts.
I'm still would not be surprised to see the no home button when the device is revealed.
EDIT: Another possibility is that these parts are from a new low-end iPad2(S) to be launched at the same time as the iPad3/HD, with subtle manufacturing differences.
I don't know, the iPhone 4 lost in a bar was not the best product secrecy moment in history either...
I Want the home button to be there... that one of the things that makes this an APPLE device
I never thought about it that way, but it does do that.
Frankly, I don't think it is such a deign flaw, eyesore, or error, nor outdated. If they got rid of it tomorrow, I wouldn't care. If they left it for 10 more years, I wouldn't care. What is strange is how many people DO care and hope it leaves the bezel, or the entire device. As long as it works and isn't in the way, it is OK by me. I'd rather have the iPad becoming more useful within itself rather than fiddling around with hopes and hatred about a single button.
Items such as SIRI and the rear camera mean far more to me. That rear camera, if updated and tricked-out, can make the device an over-all media device for home use and vacationing. SIRI is going to come to all computers and devices sooner or later, but will it come this year? SIRI will enact changes in computing drastically in the next decade, and much of a computer's function will become reliant on voice commands, which are SO much easier. If a person sees a computer as a central part of life and lifestyle instead of an addendum or tool to only be used hands-on when necessary, that person probably has serious life problems.
And the processor. Can't wait to hear about the processor and what it allows the iPad3 to do that is above and beyond other tablets and even recent computers. With a better processor, many software suites can jump to the iPad; many are still stalling and waiting. Those processor leaps will move the iPad ever closer to "Mac territory". Granted, a lowest-end Mac, but something which can do 95% of what a base Mini does. That's the moment the iPad becomes a welcomed ersatz home computer instead of a portable accessory.
no blue color available? i think is proof that the new ipad will not have bluetooth.
/digitimes.
/digitimes.
Why wouldn't it have Siri?
I feel that Apple want to release their new processors with the iPhone as it's more popular, so I wouldn't be surprised if the iPad 3 releases with an A5X processor, and the A6 will be launched at the iPhone.
Name: iPad 3
CPU: A5X
Camera: 8MP (same as iPhone 4s)
Storage: 16, 32, 64GB
Siri
Retina Screen
Home Button
1GB RAM
Tempted to say LTE
And I think the home button would be better if it was a 'touch' button... i.e. doesn't click down - just have to touch it (it will still be concave)... Would solve some issues with gammy home buttons
If it's a concave touch button (or even if it's flat), it will be very easy to accidentally press it during use.
I agree, Siri is mostly software (microphone) and will eventually come to Apple's other products too.
LOL!!!!! I love how the 'Home Button' is an expected feature. Gotta love this board. LOL
Ahahahaha,
Yesterday I brougth explanation after explanation ....
SO here we go ...
Jony Ive says hello !
How cool would it be if all the leaked parts so far turned out to be fakes from apple and when the ipad 3 is reveled its completely different?
Yeah, wouldn't it be funny if next week they announce a completely round "iPad X" with an Intel processor and a home button on the back.
Not gonna happen, but it would make for a great "Mock" Saturday Night Live announcement. In fact SNL should do mock Apple product announcements like they do mock commercials.
My favorite SNL commercials of all time: "The Change Bank" and "Colon Blow Cereal" -- though that new Verizon is pretty darn funny.