Size Comparison of iPad 4, iPad Mini, iPhone 5 and Upcoming iPad 5

[charlituna]

Perhaps, but we don't know if Apple wasn't already planning some UI changes in iOS 7 even before Ive got the software job, and we don't know if some of Ives ideas had already been prototyped and hashed out before he got the job as well.

We also don't know that Sir J would actually change anything in the UI to any major device. Outside of perhaps dumping the skeuo shadow nonsense that serves no real purpose and using that time to properly debug the software.

Just because someone new is in charge doesn't equal a full overhaul of everything

 

[Fatalbert]

Is it actually the iPad 5 or just the iPad (5th gen)?

 

[charlituna]

Siri will be self aware by then and you could legally marry her.

Just be careful, she catches you cheating and she'll go skynet on all of us

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Either/or - still doesn't negate the fact that advancements/innovations are happening, they just aren't as immediately visible to the average consumer and therefore spawn this whole "Apple is stale and doomed" mentality.

True that.

Hell even among those that do understand the tech are screams that its not enough blah blah.

Or as a wise man once said 'everything is amazing and nobody is happy'

 

[N0ddie]

I really like that. Black iPad 5 for us me thinks.

 

[nburwell]

All I really care about is the next iPad Mini getting retina display. Once Apple announces that, sign me up to pre-order.

 

[DudeDad]

I'm waiting for the 1TB iPad that has a retina display that is larger than the physical dimensions of the unit....with a flux capacitor, of course....

 

[Tigerman82]

I just recently bought iPad 4 which is my first tablet. I've actually wanted a tablet for two years now but was one of those "should I wait for the next model" who thinks about the purchase way more than they should. One of the things that made pull the trigger on iPad 4 was that people were saying the thin bezels of the up'n'coming iPad 5 would make my thumbs hit the screen. Thin bezels do look modern and sexy but can one say that thicker bezels offer nothing better in terms of usability and not blocking the screen.

My iPad 4 is still in its box and I could still return it. However, the truth is that if I do and wait for the 5, I not only yet again lose the time I could be using a tablet but also even more time waiting for the accessories which every manufacturer would then have to remake because the items compatible with the 1/2/3/4 are not compatible with 5. I'm also the type of guy who plans to stick with his purchase for as long as he can (so I'm not selling the 4 for the 5 or even 6 down the road).

Oh, and I do like the fact that I get to own the last example of the design that Steve Jobs approved.

 

[sik08amg]

Is it me or is the 5th gen iPad screen a bit smaller in the rendering compared to the 4th gen?

 

[bdavis89]

Can someone tell me where I can find the iPad without the home button? And why would they add it back to the future iPad?

 

[Tiger8]

Am I the only one who is not too impressed about this? This is no iPad 1 to iPad 2 jump, or even retina on iPad (iPad 3) game changer.

Fingers crossed for iOS 7!

 

[anomalogue]

Edge-to-edge screen

These devices want to be edge-to-edge screen. Has anyone done that, yet?

 

[69650]

As has been described in rumors and calculated from the rear shell photos, the fifth-generation iPad appears to be notably smaller than the current model, adopting significantly thinner side bezels in portrait orientation and slightly smaller top and bottom bezels.

I'd prefer if they made the screen slightly bigger instead.

 

[WardC]

I hope they offer this "iPad 5" in a 256GB variant, and in more colors than black and white...think anodized black aluminum or a textured white...the glassy/plastic and metal backing is getting old...and my iPad 3 feels like a clunker, albeit the display looks beautiful.

 

[pandamonia]

Yawn another iPad.

I find these to be really dull devices. Apple has become a company which just puts another number next to the same product every year.

There is nothing new since the iPad 1.

Einstein's new definition of insanity should be:

Buying the same thing every year expecting it to be different

 

[Mac-Mariachi]

Not impressed

Edge-to-Edge would just been gorgeous on the iPad 5, but this bigger mini-iPad is just meh!

And iOS needs a serious make-over, those iOS images look as tempting as... well, as tempting as nothing.

And I´m an Apple Die Hard fan since the olden ages but iOS desperately needs a revolution.

C´mon Apple, blow our collective socks off! I know you can do it again.

 

[CJM]

Making us wait for Q3 to nail down the supply line, I wonder?

Not interested in the hardware but I am tentatively excited for iOS 7.

 

[mrsir2009]

Hey, wait a sec... Is that Macrumors app icon on the desktops of the iPads a bookmark??

 

[Pock]

Perhaps this toaster from the series Red Dwarf .

I toast, therefore I am.

 

[tonyshaker]

Completely agree. I was exaggerating on Apple's claim to iOS 6 having 200 new features. Agreed it wasn't fonts but iOS 6 doesn't feel like it has 200 new features to me to consider it a X.0 release. On a positive note I think we're in for a nice surprise with iOS now that Johnny Ive has taken over as its head of design. I'm not sure if we will see some of his work in iOS 7 or if we will have to wait for iOS 8 for that.

I think Johnny Ive will do something to iOS 7 i agree with you that we could see a real change in iOS 8. he can not so so much in a year. what do you think?

 

[osofast240sx]

Yawn another iPad.

I find these to be really dull devices. Apple has become a company which just puts another number next to the same product every year.

There is nothing new since the iPad 1.

Einstein's new definition of insanity should be:

Buying the same thing every year expecting it to be different

So why even bother to post on this thread????

 

[melendezest]

My issue with all of this is IOS 6 is really beginning to look tired and boring. Fair enough, we have great technology that works, but there has been no significant update to any of the IOS since multitasking. The new hardware looks pretty good though.

I understand that sentiment. But I hope that they don't get rid of the rows of icons; that is key in keeping the UI easy to use and intuitive.

However, what I'd really like to see (aside from separate user accounts, dammit) is a gesture that takes the rows of icons away, kind of the reverse of what OSX ML does.

I basically want to choose when the rows are visible; maybe a toggle in System Preferences that makes the clear screen the default (OSX-like) or the iOS rows the default. A 5-finger pinch from the home screen would bring up the "desktop" or the rows, depending on the toggle setting. Bring the Mac back to iOS, as it were.

 

[psac]

This will cannabalize the sales of the Mini.

 

[pandamonia]

So why even bother to post on this thread????

Because im not compelled to agree with everything Apple do.

 

[nagromme]

2x2 comparison

I rearranged the iPad 4, Mini, and alleged 5 (two copies) into quadrants to easily compare both width and height.

(I think that in these no-background mockups, the iPad 4 may look a few pixels smaller than it really is: its aluminum edge gets lost in the background and you're just seeing the size of the black glass.)

 

[mattydodgy]

I'd tap that.