Impressions of the new iPad

    What can I say - everyone saw that Apple introduced the world community on March 7th, everyone understands that there is no reason to wait for a miracle =) Nevertheless, I want to share my impressions of the new product, which I used to use for some time.



    I don’t see any point in writing a full review about the third ipad - almost everything is the same as in the second one. Therefore, if you really want to read about the tablet itself, then rewind a year ago. But if “almost everything is the same”, then have we again been mistaken for fools and are selling the same thing as before? Let's get a look.

    The expectations of Internet dreamers and the assumptions of sofa analysts have not been confirmed - the new product has neither a three-dimensional screen, nor an integrated projector, or anything else like that; Home button and that left! Moreover: many characteristics remained the same, the main changes can be counted on the fingers of one hand - they improved the screen, camera and wireless connections.

    The box of the novelty is no different from the box with the tablet of the previous generation - there are no visual differences (keep this in mind, if you rob the Apple store, the boxes are very easy to mix up).



    There is some ambiguity with the name of the device - “iPad HD”, “the new iPad” ... it is unlikely that these two synonyms will take root among the people - most likely the new product will be called exactly like the iPad 3.

    If the iPhone 4S from iPhone 4 can be visually distinguished by the location of the dividers of the “bumper” antennas, then the new tablet does not differ from the “old” one at all - even the inscriptions are the same.



    The only thing that has changed is the weight and thickness of the device: the novelty has become almost 60 grams (+ 8%) heavier and 0.8 mm thicker than its predecessor. But these, again, are not the most obvious differences - not every owner of the second iPad will notice them.



    The rest is the same monolithic case without any claims to the quality of workmanship, cool metal on the back side and easily soiled display with a front. But this is good - all the accessories that have ever been created remain compatible, and this is a carriage and a small cart.

    ▌Screen


    But on this, perhaps, the fun begins =) Well, or pleasant.



    imageThe diagonal of the device remained the same: neither more nor less - uneven 9.7 inches. But the number of pixels that make up this screen has significantly increased - if earlier it was 786.432 pixels (resolution 1024x768), now their number has grown to 3.145.728! The resolution on an unchanged diagonal was 2048x1536 - this is damn higher than in many even the most expensive HD-TVs! If you divide the number of pixels by the size of the matrix, it turns out that for every millimeter there are more than 10 pixels - try to imagine it by looking at the “ordinary pixel” of a monitor or communicator. Screenshots in the article were reduced several times - in the original size, they simply would not fit on the average monitor.

    What did all this give in practice? But in fact, we have an extremely clear image without any hint of pixels. The most obvious example is a piece of a map, which on the second iPad looks like a picture reduced for an article (with blurry hard-to-read porridge in the signatures), while the novelty will have readable and clear text as on a clickable source: Any element: text on the screen, icons in the status line, application icons - nowhere from these elements you will not see pixelation. Even if you take a screenshot and bring it as close as possible, the image will remain quite clear: logging in with your AppleID, the tablet offered several updates - almost all of them said that games or applications began to support the new Retina display.

























    I agree that it’s rather stupid to lay out money for a new tablet for the sake of “one screen only”, but the screen is exactly what you will see all 100% of the time you interact with the device. The eyes will be very happy with such a gift - involuntarily this change is immediately evident, the screen is simply amazing! The brightness remained the same, as did the color rendition (my subjective opinion).

    ▌Camera


    The front camera is still “lame” - even with good lighting, it always has noise and other results of artificial image processing. But we must understand that it is not at all for creating photographs (the resolution is only 640x480), but for video calls in all kinds of faces and skype there. And for this task the camera is just enough - in this regard, the image has become brighter than before.



    The rear camera (now it's a 5-megapixel iSight) still has the same large and fast “viewfinder” :), but the amount of noise has been noticeably reduced. But there was a more realistic color rendition, face recognition (up to 10 pieces per frame - it’s still not very clear why this function, but I give a tooth that it’s not just). As a separate point, I liked the minimum focusing distance from which the tablet can now take pictures - the focus is on objects from a distance of about 5 centimeters! Macro photography, of course, is still a long way off, but photographing a lecture sheet (not by weight, but resting on your fingers) will be much easier. Each photo has a resolution of 2592x1936 and takes an average of 1.5-2 Mb.

    The camera learned to make video in FullHD format (1920x1080) - the recording quality again loses to individual devices and the shooting process itself will not be so convenient, but the function itself is clearly not superfluous ... and then as in the joke about a cow cake that was not useful.

    ▌Work


    If there were a lot of questions and complaints about the first version of iOS for iPad, by now (iOS 5.1) everything is pretty cool - the device works like a clock. If we talk about performance, then it is enough for all existing games and applications - be it the heavyweight Infinity Blade 2 or the new three-dimensional maps in Yandex.Navigator.





    Performance is achieved thanks to the new Apple A5X - a dual-core processor (clocked at ~ 1 GHz) with a quad-core graphics processor. I did not notice any significant overheating during operation (even resource-intensive games) - everything is within the bounds of decency.

    The amount of RAM doubled - it became 1GB, unlike the 512MB installed in iPad 2. At the same time, the battery life seemed to be left at the same level - about 10 hours, although I did not have time to check it fully :)

    Not the slightest slowdown, no complaints about work in general - you can only dig into the disadvantages of each of the applications. There are no problems even if you run several dozen programs and leave them “hanging in memory” ... In general, everything is fine - absolutely no comments.

    ▌LTE


    Both versions of the updated tablet received Bluetooth version 4.0 and protocol support 802.11a / b / g / n. There were no problems with either one.

    As for LTE, for obvious reasons, I have nothing to say here - I can only hope that Yota will not abandon the solvent audience and will adjust in one form or another after the launch of its LTE network (this event is scheduled for April 15 in Moscow) .

    ▌ Conclusion


    What are the impressions left by the new iPad? In general, they are exceptionally good. But, unfortunately, he did not evoke as many emotions as he managed to evoke the first - the iPad is now perceived as something proper and familiar, as if it had always been. The revolution did not happen, but, in fact, no one promised it - it's just that we are all so spoiled here and wait. The third iPad is just a solid continuation of what already happened, which many are so used to ... just improved (noticeably - just the screen) something that you often encounter when working and nothing more. Updating from the second model to the third does not make much sense ... on the other hand, you also bought your new monitor (instead of the old one) just for the sake of a new screen;)

    But there is one more pleasant thing, namely the reduction in prices for the entire model range of the previous generation. If you were skeptic about the release of the first ipad and you didn’t ripen on the second one, then now it’s certainly time to drop all doubts and break up the piggy bank - the price has become so affordable that even avid opponents who don’t want to pay for the brand are at risk " True, even after lowering prices, it is better to make a purchase in stores outside of Russia - the difference with our price is quite enough for a couple of accessories and a gentleman's set of software.

    And since we’ve started talking about stores, don’t count them for advertising - for the device provided for the test, I express gratitude to Computer Plaza store , in which, thanks to special street magic, you can always find the freshest - thanks!

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