The Review of Apple iPad 3 - Things That You Have to Know Before Upgrading Your iPad

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If you are planning to upgrade your existing iPad 2 to the Apple iPad 3 (iPad HD/iPad3), then maybe you really need to look into the below opinion of a number of improvements involved in the recent tablet PC device from the Apple Inc. First of all, the tablet comes with Wi-Fi and also Wi-Fi 4G versions. Thus, let us take a look at the following some other tech specifications of the Apple iPad 3 for your own personal reference.

Screen and Sizing
In terms of overall dimension and weight, Apple iPad 3 includes the identical height and width as compared to the precursor but it now comes with the heavier body weight which can be a very unhappy thing. This new tablet includes 241.2 x 185.7 x 9.4 mm in measurement and approximately 652 gr in body weight. The display measures the same size of 9.7-inch but it now features the higher screen resolution of 1536 x 2048 pixels along with higher pixel density of 264 ppi. Consequently, the screen is going to be capable of delivering the more vivid display than ever before particularly for gaming or e-book reading necessities.

Overall Performance
You'll find that this tablet PC comes with the same processor of dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9 but with the newer OS namely the iOS 5.1 version. Knowing this fact, there'll be some ideas to simply upgrade the iPad 2's Operating-system because it is actually upgradable to iOS 5.1 also. But the good thing is that the successor comes with the more recent chipset that is the Apple A5X along with the larger RAM of 1 Gigabyte. As always, this gadget comes with no micro SD card slot, so the users will be presented with the 16/32/64 GB storage space choice. There's also no major change in the battery power as it will provide the very same stand by period of up to 720 hours along with the talk-time of up to 10 hours.

Digital Camera
For the digital photography needs, this device comes with the more outstanding camera specs when compared with the forerunner. This gadget contains the 5-megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels) of main camera which has been added with the auto-focus, touch focus, geo-tagging, HDR, along with face detection. The digital camera can be performed as the video recorder with the Hi-def quality of 1080p at 30 frames per second (fps) along with the video stabilization capability. For those who want to conduct a video chat, you will then be able to use the 0.3 MP front camera, however it can just be practiced through the Wi-Fi network only.

Internet Speed
The Apple iPad 3 with Wi-Fi 4G uses the HSDPA (as much as 21 Mbps), HSUPA (up to 5.76 Mbps) LTE (as much as 73 Mbps) and also EVDO Rev. A (as much as 3.1 Mbps). It is unquestionably a lot faster web connection as opposed to the iPad 2 using its 3G-capable connections (HSDPA as well as HSUPA only).

Price Range
The Apple iPad 3 with Wi-Fi will cost you around $499 (16GB), $599 (32 GB) and $699 (64 GB). The iPad 3 with WiFi 4G costs a higher price tag namely approximately $629 (16GB), $729 (32 GB) and $829 (64 GB).

Pros, Drawbacks and Conclusion
The advantages of Apple iPad 3 are going to be the better pixel density and also screen quality, bigger RAM, greater camera specs and much quicker data access speed. The downsides will be the heavier body weight and also thicker body, same processor, no micro SD card support, and the same battery power.
 
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