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Kevin Rose: iPad 2 is coming in 3-4 weeks (via Foundation)

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-retina display -front and back cameras

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From: Kevin Rose <foundation@tinyletter.com> Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM Subject: [foundation] [rumor] Apple's iPad 2 launching soon!

I have it on good authority that Apple will be announcing the iPad 2 in the next "3-4 weeks", possibly Tuesday February 1st. The iPad 2 will feature a retina display and front/back cameras.

If you're thinking of buying an iPad, hold off for now.

Kevin

It would be a PR disaster for Apple to unveil a new iPad so soon after aggressively marking this original over the holiday season. When they dropped the original iPhone price, two months after launch, there was a huge backlash, and that was just over $200.

I wouldn't say they wouldn't do it. Apple has a long history of releasing products in January at the Macworld expo, but they've stopped attending as of last year. January of '06 saw the introduction of 2 Intel machines after their PowerPC versions were just updated in October of '05 (iMac, Powerbook/Macbook Pro). January '09 saw the upgrade of the MacBook from October '08. The current/first iPad was released in January '10, it's getting long in the tooth for an Apple product.

It's been said many, many times before that a 'retina' display on a future iPad is nowhere on the horizon as it would result in a 2048*1528 resolution device screens for which are not in production yet. This also doesn't count for the substantial increase in battery life and CPU power to keep that display operating at a smooth frame rate.

I don't think retina has to mean "double the old display". I think it could just mean "high PPI". Also, Apple has surprised us before with new, previously unheard of tech.

Who's to say it's the same size and therefor exactly double the pixels?

Generally posts don't link to pay-walled sites. Even when they do, they include a fairly good synopsis of the content, I would be interested to see who voted this up.

Anyone want to post with a publicly verifiable source? Props to Rose if this is true.

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