Apple Calls the New iPad the New iPad

Apple unveiled the new iPad Wednesday calling the third-generation device simply the new iPad, not iPad 3 or iPad HD. The dingus does, however, have that to-die-for high-resolution retina display it was rumored to have. It also has a souped-up A5X chip, and a new five-megapixel iSight camera. The new chip includes quad-core graphics said to be 4x better than a Tegra 3 or 2x better than the performance of the iPad 2. The camera’s advanced optics can capture 1080p HD video and includes a new video image stabilization feature that removes the bumps and shakes typically seen when filming with a handheld device. The screen, the same 9.4-inch size as the iPad 2, offers 264 PPI, which means the human eye can’t see an isolated pixel. The resolution, as expected, comes in at 2,048 by 1,536, or 3.1 million pixels, a million more than HDTV.

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