Last week saw the unveiling of what is largely hailed as the mother of all tablets, the brand new iPad 2. The Grand Duchy's residents need not wait much longer as they can get their hands on it in less than three weeks.
Referring to a ''post-PC era'', Steve Jobs, who emerged from medical leave, introduced a faster, thinner, and lighter iPad, designed to tighten the company's grip on the tablet market. "We think 2011 is clearly going to be the Year of iPad 2," he said in San Francisco. Apple sold nearly 15 million iPads between April and December generating nearly $10 billion in revenue.
A new processor is to supposed to render it twice as fast as the old one. Graphics are expected to be more vivid and there will be two cameras, one in the front and one in the back, for recording pictures and HD-Videos. The new iPad will also be around 50 grammes lighter and less than 9 millimetres thick, thinner than the iPhone 4.
The iPad 2 offers iMovie video editing software, music making suite GarageBand and "Hot Spot" software that lets tablets access the Internet by synching wirelessly to iPhone smartphones with telecom connections.
Rival manufacturers have been scrambling to bring their own tablet computers to market since Apple introduced the iPad last year.
Motorola Mobility's Xoom, which went on sale last week, is the first tablet powered by Honeycomb software crafted specifically for such devices by Internet powerhouse Google, and has been heralded as a viable challenger to the iPad. Another rival, South Korea's Samsung, has announced plans to come out with a large-screen version of its Samsung Galaxy Tab powered by Honeycomb.
New iPad Prices are expected to stay between around €360 and €600.
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