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what's up i'm brian tong and welcome to the Apple bite and this week it's all about the iPad 2 Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance to a standing ovation to announce Apple's latest tablet morning Wow that was emotional so let's just show you the goodies with Donnell Belle's hands-on with the iPad part Jews hey i'm donald bell for cnet.com we're here at Apple's iPad to launch event and I'm holding the iPad 2 in fact I'm holding the white version of the iPad 2 there's now two colors a white version and a black version all the same prices all the same capacities as last year's but you're now getting much thinner design a lighter design and also getting a faster processors there's there's a dual-core a5 processor in here it's promising nine times the graphics performance of the original iPad you also get any few new features you're getting a FaceTime feature for video calling you get HD cameras on the back and a VGA camera on the front Apple is also announcing two new applications for the iPad their own applications ones iMovie for the iPad which was available before on the iPhone and the iPod Touch it's now coming to the iPad is the most sophisticated version at least the most sophisticated mobile version of iMovie we've seen yet you have the application the Apple announced today for the iPad is GarageBand this is going to be a pretty cool application out there for you musical types does multitrack recording virtual instruments a lot of fun we're gonna see this thing March 11th so having played around the iPad 2 the little bit that I've had to hear I have to say the thing I like about it the most is how thin and light apples been able to get the design having seen a lot of their competitors this past year I haven't seen anything that's gotten this small and I think be able to preserve that ten-hour battery life is a big deal it's gonna be hard to be able to keep up with that so for cnet.com I'm Donnell Bell showing off the Apple iPad 2 amazing now let's be real there are plenty of things that many of you aren't happy about it still has no flash support the screen is the same resolution there's no SD card slot the cameras are for video and not stills and you have to pay for an adapter to get HDMI out it's a dual-core tablet with ten hours of battery life and it's thinner than the iPhone 4 so yeah I'm getting one now it will be available in the US on March 11th there are no pre-orders so expect lions and also expect that same guy who sleeps overnight to be the first in line at every launch to be there too but forget about the iPad 2 the coolest announcement by far was Apple Smart Cover this thing offers no protection whatsoever except for a thin piece of material that covers your screen and it automatically aligns itself with magnets it wakes the iPad when you remove it and puts it to sleep when you put it on it folds and rolls into a stand both horizontally and vertically this thing does more than my last girlfriend and I want one the red leather one because you know how we like leather alright let's take a little break for our iPhone app of the week this week's iPhone app of the week is tiny wings it's 99 cents and no this isn't an Angry Birds ripoff even if you know the birds look exactly the same but all you have to do is touch the screen to fold your wings to make yourself heavy and gain speed going downhill let go to fly and it's the classic simple cute and addictive game just like Arielle all right to the quick bytes iOS 4.3 was briefly featured and you've seen it on our show it will be released to the public on March the 11th with support for the iPhone 4 GSM model the 3GS and the third and 4 gen iPod touches but not the Verizon iPhone 4 at the moment also iMovie and GarageBand where two apps that I'm genuinely excited about and they make the iPad now a device that's not only for content consumption but content creation they'll be $4.99 for each app the universal version of iMovie for iOS devices will work on the iPad 2 iPhone 4 and the 4 gen touch but not the original iPad while GarageBand will work on both iPads now I know there's some of you that aren't impressed by this iPad update but for those of you looking for a sweet deal check out the refurbished section of Apple's online store where you can now get the original oh gee 16-gig iPad that's good as new with the same warranty for 349 so yeah you might want to get on that alright that's gonna do it for this week's show now we want to hear how you the Apple biters feel about the iPad to read your emails the next week's show so send us your thoughts to the Apple bite at cnet.com i'm brian tom thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next week for another bite of the Apple