Gadgetory

hey i'm donna bell for cnet.com i'm here at apple's ipad launch event for the new ipad we're we're thinking this is going to call the ipad 3 ipad HD it's just the new ipad in fact the ipad 2 is sticking around at a lower price point but if you want the new ipad you're going to be paying the same 499 base price for a 16 gigabyte model up a hundred dollars for 32 and another hundred dollars for a 64 gigabyte model so those prices are the same also the same pricing for the carrier enabled models so for 130 dollars extra you can get a 4g enabled ipad with either AT&T or verizon as your carrier so the big deal here is the new screen this is a screen that has four times the pixels as the as the last generation of the ipad or the original generation 2 so you're getting an amazing image quality on here arguably better pixel density picture quality than you would be getting on a 1080p television in your home if you've ever looked up close to the ipad and you've seen what almost looks like a like a grid or a chain-link fence of pixels that is gone now you're looking at this and it just looks like photorealistic it looks like the games books text looks a lot crisper and clearer you're not getting that same kind of gritty image quality that you were getting on the ipad 2 so that was a prediction that came true another prediction that came true is a better camera quality there is now a 5 megapixel camera on the back of this that's capable of 1080p video with built-in image stabilization you're getting the same vga camera on the front for facetime chat so that hasn't changed the actual position of the camera doesn't seem to have changed much at all either that was a question that we were thinking about going into this whether or not people have to buy new cases doesn't seem like you will although it is slightly thicker to the point you really wouldn't notice it but if you're going to break out the calipers and really measure it you'd notice a slight slightly thicker iPad they've also introduced a few new ilife apps including I photo so now if you want to do your photo editing on the iPad you can do that which is a better proposition now that the camera on the back is actually capable of shooting some great pictures so i'm donna bell christina calm and that was a first look at the new ipad