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well hey this is Josh with The Verge and we're taking a look at the new iPad you're probably looking at these devices wondering which one is the new iPad it's actually the device on the left but they're basically identical in design save for some very minor differences in weight and thickness so while the new iPad does look the same as the old one it there are some significant differences the first one is of course the Retina display which you probably can't see on this video and looking at on a computer screen does it no justice but it's an incredibly high resolution display it's 2048 by 1536 which is double the resolution of the previous iPad and higher resolution than any monitor I have in my house higher resolution than your HD television it just is incredibly high res and it looks pretty incredible even up close you really can't see pixels on it looking at a text dense page like the verge there's just no it's just kind of like I said this before but it's kind of like looking at a glowing piece of paper which sounds a little ridiculous until you see it and it just is you get an idea of how amazing the text and images really look on it again seeing it on camera doesn't do it justice you hate you kind of have to see it in person it should be noted that the Retina display on the iPad on the new iPad is a lower pixel density than that of the iPhone 4 iPhone 4s Apple's explanation is that you're going to hold this a bit further away from your eyes than you would the iPhone 4 that may be true but I have to say even holding it really close up to your eyes you you can't see a difference between this and the iPhones Retina display and in fact to me this actually looks better than the iPhone display also inside the new iPad is the a 5 X SOC it has a CPU clocked to one gigahertz and a quad-core GPU which Apple says will help with graphics performance we're probably not seeing in on titles at this point since this thing has just been released but this is a fairly graphically intense game and there's no lag whatsoever everything moves really fluidly no stutter but I have to say the performance is also quite good on the iPad 2 so it's hard to if if it's just a question of the code here or if the new SOC is going to make a big difference also inside the new iPad at least on certain models is LTE you can get an eighty and four rise in varieties I tested the Verizon version and I'll just show you a quick speed test here I'm on LTE right now I've got full bars and the test numbers I'm seeing are pretty off the charts we're in midtown Manhattan and here you can see it's getting about 20 down and just absurd 13 up which is faster than I get at home by a longshot on DOCSIS 3 so really impressive performance on Elte of course depending on your coverage and the how many people in your area are using LTE you're going to see differences but pretty impressive and in Brooklyn where I don't get as good a signal I still get really impressive numbers on LTE performance it's great for browsing and streaming it's completely usable and you can also for the least the Verizon version use the iPad as a hotspot and they've got a variety of plans from one gig a month up to 10 gigs also of note is the new camera here they're now calling the camera on the iPad and on the iPhone 4s an iSight camera it's a 5 megapixel shooter on this does autofocus face detection it's actually a decent camera except for the fact that it is extremely ridiculous to use an iPad to take photos with so while it actually does take good photos I can't recommend that anybody walks around taking photos with this thing because you're just gonna look like a jerk it takes fairly competent photos and you can see some of the detail here they're clear very crisp does a nice job focusing in even on close subjects and you can get an idea of the speed here not that not that the iPad 2 is a slouch but clearly this device has no trouble handling large files and in fact even with higher megapixel pictures twelve fourteen it still handles them quite quite easily and quickly in the new iPad the battery life is pretty much unchanged on LTE you lose an hour Apple says you can get 10 on Wi-Fi browsing and nine an LTE and in our testing that's pretty much exactly what we got surprisingly Apple is able to achieve those numbers because they've almost doubled the size of the battery and yet haven't really altered the shape and size of it in any significant way so times like I said tiny bit heavier a little bit thicker but the battery life is still fairly solid there's a couple of notable additions on the app front here first off Apple has created a version of iPhoto for the iPad it's also for the iPhone and you can do some pretty decent editing on this it's it's actually surprisingly powerful you can get an idea again here of how fast it is at handling large images so there are a bunch of different things you can do in terms of editing you get options for fixing redeye changing the saturation the coloring highlights and shadows playing around with those guys you can change various color elements of an image it actually can detect specific parts of an image for instance here it knows this is sky and you're able to adjust the blueness of the sky just by swiping left to right and this is non-destructive editing you've got an undo up here and you can also choose to reset the changes that you've made it's also got a number of effects kind of Instagram ish there's vintage stuff and black and white and and just a variety of these different effects you can add on pictures and it also has a vignette which you can which you can alter using multi-touch if you really want to give it that vintage pinhole feel but it's it's a surprisingly powerful image editing tool and in fact there are even photoshop asked features like you're able to repair photos something like the clone tool it's best used when you get in close on an image but you see here I had our editorial assistant Michael draw a star on his hand and we're going to just see if we can repair that a little bit up in there pretty decent for if you've got to do some quick edits of a photo it's actually really powerful considering it's a $4.99 app and it's running on a tablet it also can import and export RAW files and you can work with much higher resolution images than what the iPad is capable of so Apple has an included Siri in the new iPad but they have added dictation which does a really good job of listening to what you're saying and translating it to text on screen let's just do a quick test here I'm dictating a note to the new iPad , and it's pretty great so you can see it works pretty well and pretty fast alongside the announcement of the new iPad and iPhoto Apple also talked about an update to GarageBand which adds a few things like smart strings which is an orchestral version of their smart guitar and keyboard and drum options but one of the coolest new features of GarageBand is the fact that you can basically have a jam session with other people running GarageBand on the same network whether it's on an iPhone or an iPad and basically one person becomes a band leader and everybody else follows their sequence but when you play on the secondary iPads it records to the first one and records on the second one as well so you can contribute to a song in real time it's actually really cool and in fact even if you're just playing around with an iPhone an iPad solo you're able to play multiple instruments at the same time which is really cool for a musician so here's something I was working on so in closing the new iPad is really really good it's got that beautiful Retina display superfast LTE a better processor and more RAM in terms of general functionality and look and feel it's not that different than the previous version but the new hardware really takes it to another level if you're in the market for a tablet right now there is no product that I can recommend more highly