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Apple launches their new iPad - and number the new Apple ecosystem now supports 1080p and iOS 5.1 finally gets released for us mortals all this and more coming up right now hello everyone this is Hyneman from pocketnow.com and welcome to the pocket now I review the show we go through all the sweets cool and the not so cool inside the world of Apple's iOS devices call this a special edition for the new iPad so let's start talking about it that's right Apple has just released their new iPad and they decided to get rid of the number it kind of makes sense since none of us carry the iPod Nano 6 or the MacBook Air 3 but I guess we just got accustomed to the number so now it kind of feels weird the new iPad it's no slouch though it packs the Retina display that we've all been waiting for ever since the iPhone 4 got released it's got quad-core graphics LTE support dual-core HSDPA aside from HSPA+ a new 5 megapixel iSight camera and the optics that we all love from the iPhone for us the price points don't change with the original iPad or the iPad 2 and you can expect the device to be shipping and available as of March 16th even though under pre-orders it kind of gets a little tricky because they're already slipping to March 19th with all the pre-orders that have already been done so we could recommend that you also visit RadioShack those are the only other companies that are offering pre-orders for now so stay tuned for your new iPad now a bold move from Apple was to leave the old iPad 2 in the market for 399 you can get the iPad 2 and 16 gigabytes and Wi-Fi and for 529 you can get the 16 gigabyte model with 3g now Best Buy and Apple have pretty much dropped the prices of all the current leaving iPad twos that are available in stock so if you're out there for an old 64 gigabyte iPad 2 would 3g well now's the time now how did the iPad 2 and the new iPad compare well both devices are the same height and the same width but the iPad 2 was only point 33 inches thick and the new iPad is thicker at point 37 inches the new iPad is also heavier since the old iPad 2 weight only 1.33 pounds and the new ipad weighs 1.44 pounds and add an extra two grams if you want to compare that between 3G and 4G the iPad 2 had a screen resolution of only 20 24 by 7 6 8 at 132 pixels per inch or a new generation iPad now doubles that at 2048 by 1536 at 264 pixels per inch the new iPad has the a5x processor we're still waiting to compare since they touted that it's even better than Tegra 3 with the 12 cores of GPU so it's kind of interesting to see that performance may not be that different with the iPad 2 when it pertains to multitasking if there is multitasking there but obviously graphics are supposed to be better now the iPad 2 only had 512 megabytes of RAM in comparison to the new iPad which has 1 gigabyte storage hasn't changed and while connectivity wise things have changed dramatically since the old iPad only had 3g and this one has 4G LTE HSPA+ and dual carrier HSDPA let's not even talk about cameras because the old iPad 2 only had point 92 megapixels in comparison to the 5 megapixels in the new I side camera which is now decent and battery wise even though we still have the same 10 hours on both devices there's a big difference here see the old iPad 2 only had a 25 watt hour battery in comparison to the new 40 2.5 watt hour battery included in the new iPad now even though these specs don't surpass in any way the old first generation iPad the new iPad is better in every way to its predecessors but it's kind of curious to see how the device will feel at hand because I did feel that the first generation iPad was a brick and comparison to the iPad 2 so it'll be interesting to see how Apple manages to handle the weight distribution on this new device Apple has also changed the game for iTunes and all of their content ecosystem now supporting 1080p in both iTunes movies videos and just about everywhere at will even launched the new Apple TV that we were expecting supporting 1080p now they haven't mentioned if that has an a4 a5 or whatever chip they have we're not even sure if it's just the same Apple TV with a software tweak that tells the device have a new device here so give me 1080p and the old devices will still stay stuck at 10 but we'll see how it stands in the future because obviously one of the biggest questions that we have is how the ipad2 will scale 1080p content with a screen resolution that has more pixels kind of interesting to see once we have our hands on review now iOS 5.1 was also released to the market even though it received very little buzz from Apple it does include the enhancements that we've been waiting for in the iPhone for us in the iPad 2 but we filmed a separate video to tell you everything about it and well so far the changes have been quite good though remember you're gonna be risking your jailbreak if you upgrade so watch our video and think about it now since we came about and then tell you about how the battery life ended up being let me just tell you there's no big difference the iPhone 4s is still sadly not having the best battery life ever ok so that does it for the cool let's continue on with their not so cool and let's begin talking about the predictions that pretty much didn't make it first of all iOS 6 was not released and even though it was expected well we were expecting that Apple will finally bring us some sort of UI changes with the new iPad and their new Retina display and sadly that was not the case we're still stuck with the tad load of icons and the old iOS UI and aside from that we still didn't get Siri on the new iPad and this is probably the biggest question that everybody has now serious a gimmick to many people it's useful to others I only use it for tasks and just to give me reminders for calendar events people were waiting to at least get Siri on this new device and we only get dictation now if Apple's excuse was the fact that you really need a device that's permanently connected like the iPhone 4s has always stuck the data what happened to the 3G or 4G iPad not getting Siri there was no excuse for that that's it for today's show thank you very much for watching I'm high memory data from pocket now and well don't forget to leave us a comment down below for anything you liked or didn't like and also don't forget to give us a thumbs up if you liked what you saw that's it for now