Rumors about iPad 2 again

Apple iPad 2：No Retina Display & Mini Display Port

Sigh — all those rumors about the iPad 2 sporting a Retina Display seem like too good to be true — given Apple’s history of providing only minimal hardware upgrade in the past. So now, we have a John Gruber, who has correctly predicted specs of future hardware — and some incorrect ones, we may add — that squashed our dreams of seeing a higher resolution iPad.

According to his sources, the iPad 2 will still feature the same old 1024 x 768 screen resolution — like the one you’re holding right now to read this news.
But that does not mean that we won’t see any incremental update to the display. He said that the display of the iPad 2 may feature better, brighter power consumption. And as per the many iPad 2 cases — the display will be thinner.mov converter mac

So, forget about the super high resolution of the iPad 2. In hindsight, it is rather far-fetched to expect the next gen iPad to feature a better resolution than even Apple 27-inch LED Cinema Display.

John likens the iPad 2 with the iPhone 3GS. It will definitely have better internal — such as faster processor and bigger RAM — but the same screen resolution. convert mov to mp4 mac We’ll take that.

Other sighting includes a new port that seems to be designed to accommodate a mini DisplayPort jack. The opening is located between the headphone port and the camera hole. On the current iPad 3G, this is actually where the micro SIM slot is located.

Apple iPad 2：SD Card Slot

This time, the source is one Chinese accessory supplier — that labels the case as for the next-gen iPad. The new case reveals some port openings that seems to be specifically designed to accommodate an SD card slot. This gives us fresh contents and allows us to speculate that the iPad 2 will come with one — finally. This particular opening is located on the rear upper left corner of the casing. For your information, the exact spot is nothing but an empty area on the current iPad.

Apple iPad 2：Host the Same Camera

（techd.in）There are a lot of things that can be revealed through the supplied iOS developer builds. Since Apple released the 4.3 beta just a couple of days ago, developers have found new features and revelations that even Apple hasn’t officially announced yet. But this new revelation may not be the one that we’ve hoped that the iPad 2 would have.

In the latest SDK, developers have found four files that reveal the iPad 2’s shutter screen and camera. While it’s not exactly unexpected that the new tablet will sport camera, it is the supposed resolution of the images that got people murmuring.

Opening up the camera shutter images reveal that the resolution is 1024 x 768 — the same resolution of the current iPad. but wait, isn’t the new iPad 2 supposed to be sporting a new Retina Display of 2530 x 1897? We don’t know what to believe now.

Apart from this revelation, last week a new feature called Find My Friends was unearthed. We can assume that this new feature will offer the same functions as Google Latitude app. Other upcoming features include personal WiFi hotspot, in-app AirPlay video support and a slew of multitouch gestures.

Do iOS icons confirm iPad 2 front-facing cam?

It’s almost considered certain among fanboys that Apple’s next iPad–which so far we’re imaginatively calling the iPad 2–will come out in the next couple of months. It might be as early as April, as it was April of last year that saw the launch of the original iPad, which now has 87 percent of tablet market share.mp4 to mov converter mac

Because the supposed unveiling is so close–some say within the next few weeks–the gossip mongers are in overdrive trying to find out what it will and won’t have. And the latest rumor, which we spotted on Mac Rumors, features what may be evidence of something people have wanted since the original: a front-facing camera.

Of course, a front camera almost seems a given, since the iPhone 4 and the latest iPod Touch both already include such a device to allow FaceTime to work. Besides that, a graphic in the latest beta of iOS 4.3 for iPad has new default icons on the homescreen that appear to show a few applications that utilize such a camera. One’s simply “Camera;” one’s “PhotoBooth,” an app that every MacBook and iMac currently ships with; and the last is “FaceTime,” Apple’s mobile video chat software.mov to flv converter mac

The icons themselves are small, as is the graphic they’re part of. But blow them up, like we did above using Photoshop, you can extrapolate what the text under the icons say, with very little imagination.

It’s possible that Apple is just throwing us a curveball (were I an Apple engineer I, too, would be tempted to mess with the minds of fanboys), but this looks legit. While we may not get Retina with the next iPad, it’s indeed looking like we’ll get at least one camera.