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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with my review of the new iPad 3 as the successor to the iPad 2 which hold roughly 400 gajillion units the new iPad has a lot to live up to but is it worth it at first land it's hard to tell the new iPad from the iPad 2 both have a nearly identical design and this really isn't a bad thing up front you have a VGA front-facing camera along the home button and Retina display like the iPad 2 you can get the new iPad in both black and white as well as in 16 32 and 64 gigabyte capacities as well as with and without 4G LTE the back and size of the iPad are milled out of a single piece of aluminum with nothing but Apple and iPad logos on the back taking a closer look at the specs you'll see it's slightly thicker and heavier than the previous iPad but it's for a good reason that I'll get into in a minute overall if you've ever tried an iPad 2 you'll know what to expect here a very premium product that looks and feels great of course I can't do a review of the new iPad without talking about its headlining feature the Retina display compared to the original iPad and iPad 2 it has quadruple resolution in 2048 by 1536 pixels to put it in perspective a high-definition TV is typically going to have a resolution of 1920 by 1080 while a lot of Apple's marketing is over at the top I think they're spot on what's the iPad 3 screen it simply is the best not only will you not be able to see individual pixels normally but the color and saturation of excellent especially as you turn the brightness up and general usage I got between 8 and 10 hours out of a charge which is roughly in line with the 10 hours that Apple quotes somewhat surprisingly however is the fact that the new iPad has a lot bigger battery the iPad 2 has a 25 watt hour battery in comparison the iPad 3 has 40 2.5 watt hours of capacity which is even larger than the MacBook Air 11 inch has the Retina display is the culprit here and your battery life can be as low as 4 or 5 hours with the brightness turned all the way up charging times are also much longer taking 6 hours or more to get a full charge while we're being on GE here let's talk a bit about what makes the new iPad tick it's powered by an Apple a5x chip which combines a dual-core 1 gigahertz CPU with a quad-core GPU the processor is basically identical to the iPad 2 and only slightly faster than the iPhone 4s but the GPU is twice as powerful with an additional two cores compared to the iPad 2 it also has twice as much RAM at one gigabyte well this looks like a nice upgrade on paper it ends up being roughly the same since the new iPad has to push a lot more pixels on the display those extra two GPU cores ended up making the performance just about even with the iPad 2 that's not bad as the last iPad was no slouch when it comes to performance but it would have been nice to have a more substantial upgrade regardless the new iPad is still very fast and fluid when doing most tasks it also runs the same version of iOS 5.1 as of recording this review it remains very similar to on the iPhone and iPod Touch and identical to older models of the iPad although you now get Siri voice dictation which allows you to use your voice instead of typing unfortunately the full version of Siri isn't available the new iPad also has a brand new 5 megapixel iSight camera around back its a mix between the iPhone 4 and 4s cameras and it's really quite good pictures are nice and sharp and nearly as good as on the iPhone 4s alright so I'm now recording using the rear facing camera on the new iPad one should give you guys a little example here now of course no matter what you do the iPad is enormous you're not really gonna want to you know use it as a camera or anything for recording however the camera no dad do have to say is not too bad so of course it has all the features from the iPhone 4 as well as the 4s there I did it just tapped focus it's not quite as with the 4s camera but I do think it's a slight bit better than the iPhone 4 just like the iPhone 4s was a moderate upgrade from the iPhone 4 so 2 is the new iPad compared to the iPad 2 the screen is fantastic battery life remains solid the gaming performance is top-notch and the new camera is quite a bit better having optional support for 4G LTE with 3G worldwide is also a nice improvement that said if you have an iPad 2 I really don't recommend upgrading the only major benefit is a better screen and while I'll be the first to admit it's absolutely excellent I really don't consider that enough of a reason to upgrade however if this is your first tablet or you're upgrading from an original iPad or other tablet then I have no issues in recommending the new iPad it's simply as good as it gets if you enjoyed this video be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe