Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Here is the iPad 2, Steve Jobs is on stage

It has a completely new design, is nine times faster, has two cameras, can be white or black. This is the new iPad 2, presented in San Francisco with a surprise: a very thin Steve Jobs appeared as if by magic on the stage of the Yerba Buena Center, crowded - as always during the introductions of new products - fans, journalists and bloggers, which have been mouth open.

After the shock announcement in mid-January, when Jobs announced its intention to take a break for health reasons (Jobs, remember, has undergone an operation for pancreatic cancer in 2004 and a liver transplant in 2009), She thought that this would be the first major Apple event without him.

But not only attend, but was still standing for over an hour. "It is time that we worked, I could not miss the presentation of 2011, the iPad 2," Jobs began. New features on which assumptions and rumors circulating for weeks are different. A new design, a faster processor (A5 Dual Core), a graphics card nine times more powerful than an iPad, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, a compass and above two cameras - one front and one rear - to record movies High Definition.

Great attention, in fact, was given to multimedia: with the front camera can also do video conferencing, if covered by Wi-Fi signal, and connect with other iPad, iPhone and Apple computers. Moreover, with the iMovie software, you can install professional quality video in high definition.

Available, then, even Garageband, Apple application already present on desktops and laptops that can play music and work with the music. Even - the musicians will be happy - if you set the "piano", iPad is able to sense the pressure of my fingers on the screen, and then make the music a lot less mechanical.

iPad 2, according to Steve Jobs is much easier to handle its predecessor, is 33 percent thinner dell'iPad 1 and 4 and the iPhone will be sold in two versions (one with only Wi-Fi connectivity and Wi- Fi + 3G) and in three different versions: 16, 32 and 64 Gb. "People laughed at us - Jobs added - because we used the word 'magic' referring to the first iPad.

That later proved to be truly magical. " Just think, he added, that in only nine months of marketing have been sold over 15 million iPad, more than any other tablet computer ever marketed, with revenues of $ 9.5 billion and more than 65 thousand applications in the catalog App Store. IPad But, remember, is also one of the platforms used to buy and read books i.

With the arrival of 17 thousand books in the catalog of the publisher Random House, Apple announced today that worldwide there are 2,500 publishers using the platform for electronic publishing iPad, with 200 million active accounts around the world. Finally, Apple also introduced an innovative magnetic storage embracing the newest gem, and when it closes, puts to rest the iPad has an interior in microfiber cleaning the screen, and an exterior polyurethane or leather.

iPad comes second in the U.S. on March 11, March 25 in 26 other countries, including most likely to Italy. Prices will remain the same: even if the data is not yet official, we will start from 499 € for the version with 16 GB Wi-Fi to get the € 799 version of Wi-Fi + 3G 64 Gb. News, finally, to the holders of the old iPhone and iPad: March 11, will be made available for free upgrade of the operating system (IOS 4.3) with many new features including faster loading of Web pages and the possibility to turn their phone into a tablet or real Wi-Fi hotspot.

Function that, in fact, was already present on many other competing products.

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