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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and it's time to talk about updates to the tablet that started the craze the iPad let's go ahead and get started generally Apple products particularly the mobile products are on a year refresh cycle we see update to the iphone every year the ipod line every year i would assume that the ipad will be no exception however being a first generation device we don't really have any data to pull from we know it launched in april so we expect something to become out before april however rumors are starting to get louder and louder a lotta that we may see the first refresh to the ipad somewhere around january-february of 2011 usually predicting updates Apple products would be quite difficult however predicting what we're going to see an ipad 2 is actually going to be quite easy here's what I think we're going to be seeing for the update to the ipad 2 which i do think we will have out right after the holiday season probably around january first cameras we're going to have a front facing camera for video chat and a back facing camera for video and pictures capable of recording 720p video and a VGA resolution camera on the front similar what we see on the ipod touch and the iphone 4 that is a no brainer the tablet is a natural extension for the facetime video chat application i think it's going to be a really useful feature actually would add some business use as well you know from conference room to conference room or office to office if you have located across the country going across the world people are starting to use their ipads for business it would be really nice to be able to talk interact with people and even from a non business standpoint to talk to interact with friends a very large scale retina display the display on the iphone 4 and the ipod touch or extremely high-resolution i think good only stands to reason that we were going to see that same display transplanted to a larger scale on the ipad i think we didn't see it launched from a price standpoint it would have been too expensive to put in a new product however we've had a year to server see the prices come down and hopefully economies of scale play in and we'll see a reduced price for those displays which will translate to much higher resolution iPad displays awesome I don't think we're going to see any sort of gigabyte bump think we're going to see the same 16 32 and 64 configuration I think the prices are going to stay the same the big question is whether or not we're going to see an ipad on verizon and i don't think that there's that much of an interest or really that big a desire to have an ipad on another network it's not using it for voice calls so now for about drop calls or anything like that AT&T is evdo to 18 tease rather hsdpa network is relatively quick and robust and actually in speed test is generally the fastest mobile network around when it comes to sheer data so while we may see a verizon ipad and it could be more a harbinger of a verizon iphone coming so i don't expect that we're going to see any sort of cross carrier I padding to my stick with 18 t so for all you big red fans out there hoping for a verizon iPad your hopes are probably going to be dashed will we see a change in the design and the look of the iPad I don't think we will the ipad really falls in life what we've seen with apples design standards looks very similar to the iphone 4 however different to the new generation ipod touch which i'm sort of a shinier back think on a display this big having a shiny wrap and make you even more of a fingerprint magnet than it already is so I think these updates the ipad are going to be very minor we may see a improved new and updated a4 chip the a4 chip first debuted in the first generation ipad so you've had a year now maybe we'll see a 1.4 or 1.2 gigahertz a4 chip which may also be a sign of what we can expect in the next generation iphone iphone 5 and perhaps a next generation ipod touch as well i'll probably see a bit of a ram boost as well so just a general speed increase some cameras and better display some more of an evolutionary than a revolutionary update but certainly a welcome one on the west so what do you guys think do you agree disagree do you expect to see a new iPad before April I certainly do am I missing a future wish the ipad would have I would love to hear from you've already seen the offering system it's probably going to launch with iOS 4.2 although we maybe we'll see a sneak preview of some sort of weird iOS 5 or iPad specific iOS who knows I don't think that we will personally anyway guys I am jon rettinger from technobuffalo I want to hear your thoughts and i'll see you in the next video bye bye you you