It’s Here: A Review of the New iPad 3
3. The camera is also greatly improved, coming with a 5 megapixels rear camera for taking stills and movies. The front camera is the same as the second generation. That, of course, you will only be using for Face Time conversations with someone on the other side using an iPhone, computer or iPad. The photos come out sharp, as does video. However, from my brief experiment, you have to get used to holding it evenly to shoot a video that is even passable. I find it easier to do on my Nikon camera or on the iPhone, because of its smaller size.
4. I cannot comment on the fast 4G LT Network. I purchased the basic model, since Wi-Fi is available almost everywhere, and if I must get e-mail, I’ll continue to do so on my iPhone. But those who have tested it argue that it is much, much faster.
So, if you only have the first generation iPad, or none at all, I highly recommend that you consider purchasing it. So congratulations Apple, you’ve done it again. If only it was manufactured in the United States, and not in China’s FoxConn plant.
thanks for this information! I am going to look into buying this, Instead of the Kindle.
Can I download amazon books onto the IPad?
There is a Kindle app for the iPad.
Sorry I can’t see spending all that money for a new version of the same thing. Yes I saw the new iPad display this weekend and it looks good but what good is it if you only use the iPad to only read books and do a few searches on the internet? I am happy with my Nook which fits the bill just fine.
I feel almost compelled to buy one of these iPads, but so far I have not. I cannot figure out what I would use it for. I read tons of books on my Kindle. (I own 2 Kindles). I do not read magazines much. I sometimes spend time reading magazine articles I’m referred to from sites such as the Arts & Letters Daily website, and then once I’m on the magazine’s website I check out articles of interest, but I don’t go directly to magazines for information. I don’t show pictures of my grandkids to people, and I don’t like people showing me pics of their grandkids, so I don’t see the point of this exercise.
Yet, I feel drawn to this iPad thing. Does it do anything I might be missing? BTW… wifi is not as universally available as this article suggests. I’m in Las Vegas, and the apartment complex advertises free wifi, but rarely can I get access. And when I do get access, I cannot watch video or listen to Book TV audios…the only thing I can do is send emails and post to my blog, and only infrequently can I do that. And I’m using a MacBook Air.
Maybe at age 73 I should become a gamer? Start playing Grand Larceny Auto Theft (I probably got that wrong) I must be missing something re this iPad. Everyone seems to love it. Someone please clue me in.
Who cares, Ron. Another electronic toy. It will be obsolete next year. I’m petrified of some of these new things. I’m afraid that if I push the wrong button, I’ll be firing an ICBM at Russia out of South Dakota. I’m also getting a little worn down by the veritable tsunami of new gadgets like IPads, IPhones, IPods, IPod nanos, smart phones (whatever they are), androids, PCs, notebooks, Kindles, Nooks, and everything else that’s bombarding us today.
Sometimes I yearn for the days of the fountain pen. Life was a hell of a lot easier back then.
For the work I do right now, which includes writing and (occasionally) photo-editing, the iPad 1 still suffices, though I probably will see how Apple’s built-in photo editing software on the iPad 3 compares with Adobe’s Photoshop Express app.
The portability of the device already has proven to be an asset in cases where carrying around a laptop is a mobility liability (I was able to do two hours of work on vacation last July by just hitting wifi hot spots in Manhattan, and not totally ruin a planned morning trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art), though as a word processor the virtual keyboard is still an annoyance, and buying and porting a wireless keyboard for the iPad defeats the purpose of the tablet.
Odds are I’ll wait until iPad 4, though based on Apple’s history since OS X debuted, it may be a forced option by then since you’ve already got some peripheral iPad attachments on the market that work with the iPad 2 and 3, but not with iPad 1. So just as anyone running a Mac right now on anything older than OS 10.6 is finding their software access dwindling down, original iPad adapters are going to face the choice in the near future of updating their iPad or find more and more things that go with it no longer apply to you, because your pad no longer sits at the cool kids’ table (though for the fun of it, I did download the Siri mimicker, Evi, onto the iPad 1 just to mess with the heads of people who were expecting Siri to show up on the iPad 3).
Suddenly April 10th looks a long way away! (That’s when the iPad is supposed to come to my door.)
What can this thing do? If all you need is a reader, than Kindle or Nook will probably fill the bill.
I’m a teacher, and I use it as a laptop replacement away from home: presentations, syllabi and notes, check email and websites throughout the day, I have an app to keep attendance. I use a Bible app at church, which has multiple study resources available at the touch of a finger–a veritable preacher’s/teacher’s library a quarter the size of a typical Bible.
I’ve had my iPad 2 for a couple of weeks now and wondered if I’d trade up when iPad 3 debuted. Answer: no.
As another commenter said, what’s the point if all you do with the thing is read books, take the occasional picture, and surf occasionally? The greater resolution is tempting, but not enough to push me over the edge.
I suspect a lot of people who own an iPad 2 and don’t need to upgrade will do so anyway because of the urge to have the last best thing. I’ll pass. I agree with the author’s last comment about considering the 3 if you don’t have an iPad yet or if you have the original model.
I’ll add one thing: there is no better time to buy a used iPad 2 than right now, when so many people are trading up. Haven’t checked, but Ebay must be loaded with used 2s. And the iPad 2 manual says it’s simple to return your iPad 2′s settings to original, thus erasing personal info.
I was all set to buy the iPad 2, but was disappointed to learn the resolution was the same 1024×768 as the iPad 1 – and the same as my not-quite-HD plasma TV. So I elected to hang on a little longer. It seems my patience has been rewarded. (I guess this is what they meant by deferred gratification.)
Hey Ron, as long as you’re enjoying your iPad, don’t miss today’s issue of PJM, where the Tatler attacks Axelrod for calling Romney a Nazi by using the term “Mitzkrieg” while, the lead story – Hanson attacking liberals – is illustrated by a Happy Face with a HItler mustache. Of course, my response pointing out this bit of right-wing hypocrisy (so what else is new?) wasn’t passed by PJM’s moderators on either the Tatler or Hanson blogs (so what else is new?). Sorry to intrude on your iPad ad, but I thought you could use a good laugh.
“If only it was manufactured in the United States, and not in China’s FoxConn plant.”
Don’t be silly. Can’t do that if Apple wanted to. First, Apple has to lose a couple of bil in taxes repatriating its foreign cash home to open factories. Second, the much higher wages in the US will take away Apples’ advantages, i-Whatevers will cost much more to produce, and much more than $500 to sell, much smaller customer base, much less profits to Apple, less ability for Apple to do reserach and developments for the next gen i’s. Btw, Reserch and Development pays much more than low wage manufacturing jobs of screwing screws, snapping cases closed. Apple can afford to pay competitive salaries on the high tech side of its business when the low tech is done in China.
Besides, who can afford to do their manufacturing here? Imagine the hundreds of millions they have to spend to become the whipping boys of unions, politicians who need to fire cheap shots at bogeymen to win their next elections, the insatiable Fed who won’t stop bleeding the productive few, the environmentalists who will accuse them of polluting our air killing our young, the OWS crowds …
Besides, the Chinese are really financing us to own the iPads. The greenish papers we give them are losing their values faster than the first gen iPads.
brilliant summary of where we have been brought competitively by inept and malicious leadership