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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here now that the ipad 2 has been out for just about a month i thought i'd be a great time to set back we've had some weeks elapsed since the initial review period and see if one I thought then is true now and decide if the ipad 2 has a place in your home as your tablet of choice let's go ahead and get started so as i mentioned in my initial review the ipad 2 fixes everything that I really never thought was wrong with the iPad 1 it is thirty-three percent thinner I never thought the iPad one was relatively fat it is noticeably faster I never thought the iPad one was slow the a5 processor which offers dual core processing speed in addition to the extra ram we're now up to 512 megabytes definitely makes for an improved experience and where you notice that isn't really an apple launched speed if I go ahead and launch CNN it'll launch relatively same from what it did with the iPad 1 and if you want some more comparisons of the ipad 2 vs ipad 1 links going to be down below if you want to check that out but what this does do we notice a big difference in speed is actually in the web browser so i go ahead and open up safari here let's go said i want to launch technobuffalo for example it launches much faster than i saw on the previous generation ipad and again when you watch the comparison video you'll notice that speed difference really where you notice it isn't going to be when you have a fast Wi-Fi connection or i've noticed this to be difference is actually on the 3g side 18 tease 3g networks again another video done on this are noticeably faster at least hypothetically from the verizon cdma network however due to the increased horsepower of the ipad to verizon's 3g cdma now where tends to load faster for me than AT&T is on the ipad one bit of a convoluted way to say the extra horsepower really translates increase speed nothing really do with the network's themselves just they're able to process information that's coming in much quicker i didn't have an issue with the ipad one as far scrolling goes little boxes that show up when you scroll but this does sort of fix any problem that might have been there pinch-to-zoom really does work nicely the addition of the cameras is kind of blah I believe Chris Pirillo was the one that said you can literally have minutes of fun with the camera applications and that is quite true here is photo booth for example I have honestly never used photo booth outside of my initial demonstrations idea for you guys you can see all the cool little motions here i have used facetime once I've taken probably three pictures with the ipad 2 now that might be just unique to me the facetime feature if you live abroad or you travel a lot might be a killer killer killer must have feature for you at least for me it hasn't really translated too much use the cameras were really much ballyhooed you got to have cameras you got to have cameras you got up cameras even by me as well I'm finding myself now that I've got the cameras I can see them front and back I'm not really using them something to keep in mind the next big addition with the ipad 2 was the smart covers which have been sort of lamented has been grossly expensive and they definitely are grossly expensive you can see it sort of fall right in there I've got the red leather one here they do offer a decent round of protection for the screen however go ahead and kick this display off they do leave a bit of a mark on if you can see that on camera but where these ridges hit the screen you do get a bit of a smudge something to keep in mind they offer a bit of functionality I like how when you type if you go ahead and do your little triangle motion there get that raised surface I found that to be very useful and a very welcome addition when I'm typing do I think it is worth the money no I most definitely do not if you wanna have a smart cover just because the magnetic business is kind of cool and it is very cool and go ahead and do so know is going to protect the front of the device but you are not going to get any story protection for the back so my advice is to get a full case for the ipad 2 and have something that's going to offer that increased functionality of the raised surface as well most cases now have some sort of a little bit of mechanism the back that'll raise it up for when you're typing or I'll prop it up for you want to watch movies I do think this is a worthy upgrade to the ipad 1 the increase in speed alone something again that I never thought I needed has been very very welcome to me especially while travelling abroad using the earner traveling abroad but traveling out of my home when I need to use the 3g radio has really been welcomed it's much faster than I saw with the ipad 1 do I think that you should get an ipad 2 if you already have an ipad 1 the answer is an astounding no there's really very little reason to upgrade at least from my standpoint from the current generation ipad if you don't have an ipad and you're saying well should i get the ipad 2 or should I even wait a year for the ipad 3 go ahead and get the ipad 2 it's going to work very well you might be not have some of those features you might see the next generation but you'll always find yourself playing the waiting game ipad 2 just came out if you need a tablet this is probably the best one available right now if you're saying well i can get a cheap ipad one now and not get the ipad 2 that is also a very decent way to go however if you don't have a device right now you may want to pay the premium to upgrade to the ipad 2 versus the discounted prices of the ipad 1 the increased speed which is not something that I really thought was going to be that important when i did my review but the more i use the device the more I appreciate that increase in speed also new in the ipad 2 is colors I've got a white version right here and I wish that I got black this is going to be a personal preference thing whether or not you like the white of the black I think the white on the iphone 4 looks absolutely fantastic I think it looks classy and I think it looks unique on the ipad 2 I think the white looks a little bit cheap and to be quite honest I'm really worried that my red smart cover is going to rub off this is going to turn pink or have some sort of coloration I haven't had that problem yet but definitely something that I am concerned about really in conclusion the problems I've had with the ipad are the things i have lamented on many many many occasions and that is iOS itself it has not changed really much at all since its launch in debut in 2007 I think the notification system is extremely obtrusive I think the way that it handles multitasking is quite archaic really just an app switching system here and i think that the lock screen is such a joke when you lock the ipad you really have no information that's this way when you're trying to mock it other than the time date if you've got a password you can go ahead and put that in you can access in pictures but you don't know if you have any emails in there and seeing things like Motorola's honeycomb that offers new lock screen functionality HTC's flyer coming out then it has improved lock screen functionality you actually open applications from your lock screen really shows where iOS is deficient something that I love to see improved anyway guys what do you think about the ipad 2 did you pick one up how have your opinions changed or not changed since since you picked it up and since the release i just want to hear what you guys have to say leave your comments down below all the videos mentions are going to be down and what have you be sure to check them out i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo and I'll see in the next video bye bye