Steve Jobs & Apple unveil iPad 2

Steve Jobs has unveiled Apple’s iPad 2 in San Francisco yesterday.

What is new about the iPad 2? Here is a summary:

- Its an all new design, not just a tweak of the 1st gen iPad

- Comes with a new A5 chip, with dual core processors, which is twice as fast the 1st gen iPad

- 9 times faster graphics

- Still has around 10 hours battery life

- This will be one of the first dual core tablets

- 2 built in camera, 1 rear, 1 front facing camera

- Built in gyroscope

- 33% thinner in size than 1st gen iPad at 8.8 mm thick which is thinner than the iPhone 4, and weighing just 1.3 pound.

- It comes in 2 colours, both black and white

Here is a brief snippet of the iPad 2 keynote by Steve Jobs (video from CNET)

Once released to the public the price of 1st generation iPads are expected to drop substantially.

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