The king is among the tablets. Testing new Apple iPad

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Technical characteristics

Screen: IPS, 9.7 inches (2048×1536), LED backlight * CPU: Cortex A9 (1 GHz) * Video card : GPU PowerVR SGX543MP4 (250 MHz) * RAM: 1 GB * Built -in memory: 16/32/64 GB * Connection: Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, GSM/HSDPA/LTE * Navigation: GPS, GLONASS (only in version with 4G) * Connectors: Brand port, 3.5 mm jack * Battery: 11 560 mAh * Operating system: Apple iOS 5.1 * Cameras: The main one is 5 megapixels, frontal – 0.3 MP * Dimensions: 24,1×18,6×0.9 cm * Weight: 662 g * Price for April 2012: from 20,500 rubles

Talk about new devices Apple Always difficult. It seems to be still everything, and the piece of iron is perceived in a completely different way and is sold by millions of circulations. Here is fresh iPad : outwardly almost like the first version, the processor of a year ago, changed the matrix, video card and communication module. Make such some other manufacturer-no one would have noticed. The novelty of Apple in the first days of sales dispersed in the amount of three million copies.

Twice as many points

And after all, the strangest thing, of all the listed innovations, is really impressive only the screen, adjusted to the standards Retina. The main meaning of this technology is to place so many pixels on the display so that the eyes cannot distinguish individual points. For this, Apple installed an IPS matrix with a huge resolution of 2048×1536, twice as much as each direction than the previous iPad. The difference from the predecessors is evident.

The image has become so clear – I can’t even believe that you have a regular display in front of you. Fonts, buttons and icons on any scale look as if printed on first -class paper. Games also pumped up significantly. Updated Infinity Blade 2 , Mass Effect: Infiltor And Asphalt 6 look amazing, no smoothing.

Down with numbers

Apple's iron labeling is very strange. All new laptops are called just MacBook Pro or Air. Home computers – IMAC. Players – iPod Nano/Touch/Shuffle. And no numbers to you. Yes, it looks stylish, but buying the right model is more and more difficult every year. From the tradition, the Cupertinsky company retreated only from the iPhone and iPad, which received numbers after the name. With a new iPad, good undertaking sunk into oblivion. How to distinguish "pills" from old generations – the problem of customers. In stores, new items are marked as iPad 3, 4G or New.

Long charging large battery

For the normal functioning of the Apple display, the power of the filling. The processor did not touch, it was taken from the iPad 2 – a bilingual crystal on the nuclei of the ARM Cortex A9 frequency of 1 GHz. But the graphic system was improved. For beauty, the quadrous chip PowerVR SGX543MP4 is responsible for a speed of 250 MHz. It was added to RAM – from 512 to 1024 MB. How much such an update corresponds to modern realities? It's hard to say. There is no sensible interpretable benchmarks, so it is impossible to measure the difference in numbers. By purely subjective impressions, the iPad works in the same way as its predecessor: everything opens quickly, nothing inhibits nothing. In general, for the needs of the software available in the App Store, it is enough with excess.

But what Apple could not cope with – energy consumption. For the “tablet” to live the usual ten hours, I had to install a huge battery with a capacity of almost 12,000 mAh, which significantly exceeded the indicators of not only tablets, but also laptops.

At the same time, they did not release more powerful charging – in the set of "old" 10 watts adapter. The battery is charged from him twice as long as its ancestors, and it is better to forget about the power supply from USB at all.

Does not want to speak, but takes pictures perfectly

The built -in camera in the tablet means not as much as on the phone. Nevertheless, Apple decided to improve her. In the first iPad, she could not stand any criticism, now she clicks no worse than the iPhone 4 – honest 5 megapixels. The frontal matrix, for video calls in Facetime and Skype, remained the same – it gives out a picture of 640×480 and works tolerably in poor light.

The universal voice assistant Siri, who became the most discussed innovation of the iPhone 4s, did not appear on the iPad. Only the dictation function is available. It is arranged elementary: click the button on the keyboard, make a request (weather, the name of the person from the address book, the name of the application), wait for the recognition – and is ready. It turns out well, especially when around is quiet, but still it is not siri.

The volume of the built -in memory has not changed. There are options for 16/32/64 GB C Wi-Fi or with Wi-Fi+4G. Which to take? For our part, we will say that it is better to pay attention to the older models. Programs optimized for Retina can occupy both 700 and 1500 MB, a place is clogged at a catastrophic speed of 16 GB, most likely, not enough.

A separate line, we note the support of the fourth -generation connection. Officially, it is, and it is actively advertised. However, 4G operates exclusively in the USA, our frequencies, which are provided by Yota and MegaFon, do not appear in the list. Roughly speaking, despite the encouraging inscription on the box, only 3g will see the iPad.

Say gigabytam

Apple is a unique company. While almost the entire iron market sells gigabytes, megagerians and glasses in https://slots-charm-casino.co.uk/ benchmarks, the "apple -baches" manage to not pay attention to it at all. It is difficult to find a person who bought an iPad due to a bilingual processor or 64 GB of internal memory. Developers focus on the working environment.

Apple managed to create an incredibly convenient and thoughtful infrastructure. In the App Store, thousands of applications for every taste and color, there are subscriptions to magazines, Game Center Game Community, music is sold. Yes, and iOS itself offers a lot of goodies, including Imessage electronic messages, ICLOUD cloud platform, Facetime video communications.

In the end

At the time of the release, the new Apple iPad was the best market tablet. In terms of the quality of the screen, he simply did not have competitors. Now, after four months, much has changed. Acer Iconia Tab A700/701 and ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity are already available in Russia, which have received displays from 1920×1200 (224 versus 256 points per inch at Retina). True, it is still hard for them to compete with an apple pill: there are practically no programs under Full HD on Android.

We will answer the eternal question “Buy iPad or not” – if you are already imbued with an “apple” ecosystem, then definitely yes. If not, it makes sense to think about Android with its flexibility settings and support for widgets. Those who already have an iPad, let's say this. The first version of the tablet must definitely be changed, the owners of the second can be held award. The difference is not so great, and it is quite possible to wait for the next generation.

Pros:

• High performance
• Great screen
• Great autonomy

Cons:

• too long charging through USB
• Egging design

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