Apple iPad 3: what’s needs to change by www.batteryfast.co.uk

March 6, 2011 - PRLog -- Apple iPad 3: what’s needs to change by www.batteryfast.co.uk

Apple’s third generation version of the iPad, presumably due in early 2012, will have to make substantial improvements in order to follow a strong but incremental second act.

“The next generation iPad and what Apple needs to deliver.” Based on information gleaned from updates in iOS and information coming out of the semiconductor industry at the time, I updated that article in November and polished the crystal ball — in my usual purely speculative way — of what I thought that iPad 2 might look like or the features it should contain.

The iPad 2 is now here. For the most part, much of what I thought would be in the new model did actually come to fruition, but I got a number of surprises and also some dissapointments as well. The iPad 2 is clearly a strong second act following the first device, but the improvements are still more or less incremental.

In the third version, (http://www.batteryfast.co.uk/apple/a1185.htm) Apple is going to have to up the ante considerably, because its competitors are going to have plenty of time in 2011 getting their respective offerings honed and improved for the next product cycle.

Let’s go through last year’s predictions about various anticipated features in the iPad 2 to find out where the hit and misses were, and to see if there is room for improvement in any of these areas that could make their way into iPad 3.

Gyroscope

Firstly we can say that right off the bat, the new iPad will almost certainly have the same built-in gyroscope that the iPhone 4 has in addition to the accelerometer. This is a no-brainer addition, as it vastly improves responsiveness and precision control for games and also will permit the creation of even more immersive augmented-reality applications on the tablet.

Yup, the iPad 2 did in fact get a gyroscope, likely the same or similar part that’s in the iPhone 4. So all future iPads are going to have gyroscopes. Will there be new applications on iPad that will really take advantage of it? Does the iPad 3 need a higher precision gyroscope part than what is shipping today? That remains to be seen, especially when iPhone 5 ships and we see what features it contains.

Cameras

The second is the question of a front-facing camera and FaceTime. While FaceTime is undoubtedly one of the best features of the iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch 4, it may prove difficult to implement in the iPad without radically changing the existing hardware design and the behavior of FaceTime itself.

Not only did the iPad 2 get a front-facing camera, but it got a rear HD-capable camera as well. In my original piece, I discussed some of the challenges of using front-facing cameras on full-size tablets. As of yet, nobody has put Facetime into practice on an iPad 2, so I can’t comment yet on how well the software translates to a larger mobile device.

However, I would expect that the specs on both the front and the rear cameras on iPad 3 to be improved. iPad 2 uses a VGA-capable camera on the front and a “HD” camera that can do 720p video in the rear. Competitors which are shipping with integrated cameras in 2011 include the Blackberry PlayBook, which sports a 3MP video camera in the front and a 5MP in the rear, and the Motorola XOOM, which is 2MP in the front and 5MP in the rear.
It is thought that the iPad 2 only uses a sub-1MP camera in the rear, which is good enough to shoot 720p, but not 1080p video. It also doesn’t have a flash of any sort (such as the LEDs used on selected smartphones) and can only take sub-1MP still photos.

However, one must consider how Apple determines what features best fit in a device which is shipping at a base price point of $500.00, what the actual consumer use case scenarios are, and how they can purchase enough volumes of those parts in quantity to actually pull off that pricing.

So while competitors may ship “higher-spec” than iPad 2 today, they still will have trouble coming up with prices that are in line with what Apple is coming up with, based on the Bill of Materials (BOM) that determines the overall component cost that is hampered by the lack of these vendors’ abilities to manipulate and control their respective supply chains in the same way Apple can.

Still, we can speculate that 3MP and 5MP camera components might be able to be secured in volume by Apple by end of CY 2011 to ship a device with upgraded parts in early 2012.

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