Top 10 Highlights and Top 5 regrets of Apple iPad 2
At U.S Pacific Time AM 10:00, March 2011, Apple officially announced the second generation of tablet pc -iPad 2. It is more powerful in many ways than expected, it uses 1GHZ frequency A5 dual-core processor while to reduce 33 percent thickness of the fuselage; the new front and rear cameras can shoot 720P HD video; it is relatively comprehensive upgrade of the previous generation. But there are also many regrets, for example the previous most vocal Retina display screen doesn’t appear in iPad 2 at the end. Overall, the iPad 2 left for us with the top ten highlights and the top five regrets.
The top 10 highlights of Apple iPad 2
Tenth of the top 10 highlights: black and white color
Near the last two days of on sale, exposures of the border accessory, indicating iPad 2 will have two styles, black and white, that is in accord with that Steve Jobs announced before. Different from iPhone 4, iPad 2’s treatment on black and white is in the very clever method, just around the border of the front part of the screen panels is in different colors, the back is the same aluminum alloy body shell. There is no difference in price between black and white.
Ninth of the top 10 highlights: three-axis gyroscope
This time Apple introduces three-axis gyroscope of iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4 to iPad 2, the three-axis gyroscope will make iPad 2 own better performance to play game, especially some real three-dimensional games.
Eighth of the top 10 highlights: the battery is still strong
More function and processor upgrade will inevitably bring new challenges for battery life, but iPad 2 still keep the same battery life with the previous generation iPad,- running for 10 hours, standby for 1 month.
Seventh of the top 10 highlights: iPad into the Facetime era
After a video call Facetime of iPhone 4 is launched, Facetime started to fast upgrades in Apple products, now coupled with camera of iPad 2 also entered Facetime era.
Now MacBook Air, iMac, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4 already have Facetime functions, these devices can be carried out Facetime video call with iPad 2.
Sixth of the top 10 highlights: Double 3D network support
IPad 2 has several versions, in addition to color, capacity, even network support is different. Apple will also launch AT&T and Verizon’s cooperation version, supports WCDMA and CDMA EV-DO Rev.a 3G network standard.
The 3G iPad of CDMA version shows that it is the first time for iPad covered two most widely used 3G standard in global. In China, China Unicom and China Telecom are expected to introduce.
Fifth of the Top Ten Highlights: imagination of thin
IPad 2 in light body weight and thin thickness is very alarming and attractive. Its thickness is only 8.8 mm, not only 33 percent thinner than the previous iPad (13.4mm), but also thinner than the world thinnest smartphone-iPhone 4 (9.7mm). It will be more convenient to carry when travel and bring a completely new experience to us.
Meanwhile, Apple has designed the Smart Cover shell for this ultra-thin body to protect its screen, It is pretty beautiful and fashion and there are many colors to choose. Apple specially introduced such a fitting cover for the new iPad 2, buyers can get it in a separate purchase price of 39 dollars.
Fourth of the Top Ten Highlights: 1080 high-definition output
Benefit from the enhancement of graphics capabilities, iPad 2 support 1080P HD video output, so you can easily use the iPad 2 as a high-definition player; transfer the video source to high-definition TV.
Third of the Top Ten Highlights: A5 dual-core processor
As expected, Apple upgraded A4 processor with the iPad, then enters to the dual-core era. IPad 2 A5 dual-core processor is still 1 GHZ, but the A5 has two core processors increased in performance to the original 2-fold.
Second of the Top Ten Highlights: 9 times show performance
Compared with the processor upgrade, iPad 2 performance in graphics is more impressive, showing performance improvement a 9-fold than original iPad. It means that, iPad 2 not only can output 1080P HD video, in use of 3D games, large-scale software, it will own faster performance.
First of the Top Ten Highlights: iOS 4.3
iOS 4.3 is the last killer of the iPad 2, it adds hot sharing. Meanwhile, the new AirPlay can share video, music with Apple TV. Nitro JavaScript engine makes browse parse web page faster.
Above is Top 10 Highlights of Apple iPad 2, but compared with user’s expectations it is not perfect, a lot of very concerned about the new features by the user did not join. The following is Top 5 Regrets of iPad 2 left for us.
Fifth of the top 5 regrets: not use the new ThunderBolt Interface
A few days ago it has just been published MacBook Pro brings industry the experience advantages of ThunderBolt transmission technology. The maximum transmission speed up to 10GBpm also supports video and date transmission Thunderbolt bound become to the future trend. ThunderBolt will be used for iPad 2 is one of the most anticipated features before the release, but until it released at last, Apple doesn’t mention this.
Fourth of the top 5 regrets: Mobile Me isn’t free
At the iPad 2 conference, Jobs ridiculed that Android 3.0 software for the tablet PC is less than a hundred at software market, but compared to Google, Apple doesn’t do better in service tool, such as Gmail, Documents, Reader, Calendar dengjun reputation. Apple’s similar service MobileMe has been charged, it access to comprehensive free also received widespread attention, but Apple didn’t mention it at the iPad 2 release scene.
Third of the top 5 regrets: Running memory upgrade is unknown
Running memory of iPad generation is 256MB, only half of iPhone 4. In this conference of the iPad 2, Apple didn’t mention anything about iPad memory configuration. At Apple official website it is also hard to find the configuration details, running memory “iPad2‘stingy” is also a major sorry.
Second of the top 5 regrets: Camera resolution is not good
On one hand, we are happy iPad 2 has been added the front and rear cameras, on the other hand we have to criticize, the front camera is VGA resolution (30 million pixels), rear camera can do the 720P camera (1280×720 pixels), less than 100 million pixels, compared to 500 million pixels camera which has been popular, iPad 2 camera is not strong enough.
First of the top 5 regrets: Screen resolution unchanged
If to say the biggest regret of iPad 2, most of the Apple fans will mention that the display screen does not use Retina. Although the actual performance of the processor and other hardware have been improved very much, but not revolutionary on the display panel to enhance. It still use 9.7-inch IPS display screen, although the screen panel from three panels into two panels, by a thin layer of some, but the resolution is still 1024×768 pixels, less than 1280×800 pixels of Motorola XOOM.
overall, iPad 2 releases at the full swing table PC market set off a new upsurge, especially in the upgrading of software and services, brings Android camp Tablet PC a lot of pressure. But from regrets of iPad 2 we can see that Apple is still “left hand”, leaving us more expectations.
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