First Look at the new Apple iPad (2012)

hey I'm donald bell for CNET .com I'm here at Apple's iPad launch event for the new iPad We were thinking this was going to be called the iPad 3 iPad HD It's just the new iPad In fact the iPad 2 is sticking around at a lower price point but if you want the new iPad you're gonna be paying the same 499 base price for a 16GB model up a hundred dollars for 32 and another hundred dollars for a 64GB model So those prices are the same Also the same pricing for the carrier-enabled models so for a hundred and thirty dollars extra you can get a 4G enabled iPad with either AT&T or Verizon as your carrier So the big deal here is the new screen This is a screen that has four times the pixels as the last generation of the iPad or the original generation too So you're getting an amazing image quality on here arguably better pixel density picture quality than you'd be getting on a 1080p television in your home If you've ever looked up close at the iPad and you see what almost looks like a grid or a chain link fence of pixels that is gone now You're looking at this and it just looks photo realistic It looks like the games books texts look a lot crisper and clearer You're not getting that same kind of gritty image quality that you were be getting on the iPad 2 So that was a prediction that came true another prediction that came true is a better camera quality There is now a five megapixel camera on the back of this that's capable of 1080p video with built-in image stabilization You're getting the same VGA camera on the front for Face Time chat so that hasn't changed The actual position of the camera doesn't seem to have changed much at all either That was a question that we were thinking about going into this whether or not people would have to buy new cases It doesn't seem like you will although it is slightly thicker to a point you really wouldn't notice it but if you're gonna break out the calipers and really measure it you'd notice a slight slightly thicker iPad They've also introduced a few new iLife apps including in iPhoto So now if you want to do your photo editing on the iPad you can do that which is a better proposition now that the camera on the back is actually capable of shooting some great pictures So I'm donald Bell for CNET .com and that was a first look at the new iPad