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Inside the iPad 2, Apple has packed in a battery that it says delivers the same 10 hours of nonstop Web use as the first model, plus a significantly faster processor called the A5. The standard case Apple sells, a nifty, folding, magnetically attached screen protector called the Smart Cover, makes the iPad 2 seem even thinner next to an iPad clad in Apple’s older, thicker case. And at 1 1 / 3 pounds, it’s notably lighter, too. Apple touts it as being a third thinner than its predecessor, at just over a third of an inch thick. The iPad 2’s thinner profile is even more obvious. (If you suspect that Apple won’t offer a flash or higher resolutions - the front camera records 640 by 480 pixel shots, the back 720 by 960 - until it can build those features into an iPad 3 that it will introduce after months of anticipation, you’re wising up to the ways of this company.) These cameras can take still photos as well but should be used for that purpose only in an emergency: Their grainy, low-resolution pictures were little better than the output of the first generation of cameraphones. Skype’s Internet-calling application also worked properly with the iPad 2’s cameras, although the program (which Skype has yet to tune up for the iPad) only occupied a small chunk of the iPad 2’s 9.7-inch screen most of the time. Fortunately, FaceTime isn’t the only option. The iPad 2’s front and back cameras support Apple’s FaceTime software, which provides convenient video calling - over WiFi only, not 3G - to friends using a recent Mac, an iPhone 4 or the current iPod touch. Going by a first glance at an iPad 2 loaned by Apple - a high-end, $829 WiFi-plus-3G model compatible with AT&T’s network, loaded with 64 gigabytes of memory - this device’s immediate contributions will be bringing video calling to more places and slightly lightening travelers’ luggage. A survey for ChangeWave Research conducted in February - well before Apple chief executive Steve Jobs introduced the iPad 2 in San Francisco on March 2 - found that 82 percent of would-be tablet buyers had an iPad on their shopping lists.

The second, priced at $499 and up like the first, doesn’t do all that much more: It’s a lot thinner, a little lighter, has a faster processor and adds two cameras.īut maybe it doesn’t have to. The first woke up a tablet-computing market that had been occupied only by heavy, slow devices running versions of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. In the gadget market, that’s not ordinarily rational behavior.īut Apple’s iPad and the iPad 2 that arrived in stores Friday are not ordinary gadgets.

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Across America on Friday, people lined up for blocks to buy an incremental update to an established product.

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