Apple Inc. has called for a special media event on March 7 at San Francisco. It’s believed to be the release of new Apple iPad 3. In their promotional marital they said that “We have something you really have to see. And touch”
However, there is no official release of specification yet, still we have some strong clues about the shape of iPad 3. As usual there are millions of rumors spreading too about the forthcoming features.
Here, I’m trying to discuss about the expected features in Applie iPad 3 which it should have in order to stand out in this “Tablet War”.
Expected Features
Processor
The main thing I expect in any tablet would be its processing power and RAM. However Apple devices managed to give unbelievable fluid performance even with very low hardware configuration in their iPhone. So I don’t expect it to have very fast processor which kills the battery fast.
So my expectation is 1.2 GHz Quad Core processor, probably A6 with 1GB RAM. This would be more than enough for iPad 3 to give a solid competition to all the other tablets.
Operating System
When it comes to iOS 5 I have no many things to demand for. However it must be optimized for higher resolution display.
Siri beta version is coming with iPhone 4S. I expect the Apple developers to include more updated and powerful version on iPad.
Display
Increased display size won’t help unless it’s having increased resolution. That is the main problem with any kind of display. Previous iPad 2 was having 9.7 inches display with resolution 1024 X 768 which make the pixel density 132 ppi.
In iPad 3 they might try to increase pixel density to make it a retina display. Therefore they will have to double the resolution of previous iPad at least. It will result in 9.7 inches display with 2048 X 1536 resolution with ~263 ppi.
Pixel Density Calculation
[Sqrt (Width px^2 + Height px^2)]/ display size in inches = pixel density in pixel per inch (ppi)
Camera
iPads were always having poor camera compared to most of other tablet devices. Therefore I expect them to break it this time with 8 MP rear camera and at least 1.2 MP front facing camera. In addition to still images 1080p video recording also would add an extra color.
Connectivity
Same as the camera apple products are way behind when it comes to connectivity compared to competitors. I expect a change in there as well. In order to hit this problem hard they should make iPad 3 LTE enabled.
Wrap Up
If you take a look at last Mobile World Congress there were amazingly powerful Android Tablet Devices with more than 1.5 GHz Quad Core Processors, 8MP cameras, 10 point muti-touch displays and LTE connectivity from various manufacturers such as Asus, Huawei etc.
In order to compete with them iPad 3 also should bring something solid in to the table which is going beyond traditional features such as touch screen. Probably they will focus more in software upgrades and optimization to give a good user experience rather than keep upgrading hardware.
The competition is tight and we have to wait till 7th March with fingers crossed to see how exactly it’s going to look like.
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