Apple raised the curtains on its latest star products — a new iPad and a new Apple TV — in San Francisco on Wednesday morning after months of heavy speculation.
CEO Tim Cook and marketing chief Phil Schiller unveiled the products on stage at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Mashable editors Lance Ulanoff and Chris Taylor are blogging and photographing everything they hear and see.
The new 9.7-inch iPad has 2048 x 1536-pixel retina display, 5-megapixel camera (with the same optics sensor from the iPhone 4S) and 1080p video recording. It is available March 16 in black and white,
powered by A5X chip (with quad-core graphics) and supports 4G LTE networks. It’s 9.4 millimeters thick and 1.4 pounds.
Wi-Fi only iPads cost $499 for 16 GB, $599 32 GB and $699 for 64 GB, while 4G versions cost $629 for 16 GB, $729 32 GB and $829 for 64 GB. Pre-orders start today, and the devices will be in stores March 16 in these 10 countries: U.S., UK, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.
For complete specifications for the new iPad, click here.
Apple is working on two LTE versions of the iPad with AT&T and Verizon in the U.S., as well as Rogers, Telus and Bell in Canada. Both LTE U.S. models will be 3G ready, too.
The new Apple TV supports full 1080p HD and will remain $99.
Cook opened the event with post-PC sales figures, saying 172 million iPods, iPhones and iPads were sold in Q4 of 2011. That accounts for 76% of revenues that quarter. Then, he announced iOS 5.1 is available today as well as Siri in Japan. Apple also sold 15.4 million iPads in Q4 in 2011. To put that into context, HP shipped 15.1 PCs in the same quarter.
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Source: Mashable
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