The big day has arrived: at 19 pm Italian time (10 am in California) Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the stage at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco and will present to US journalists (for the rest of the world the appointment is via satellite at Kings Place in London) the new jewel of Cupertino, that iPad whose name is not even official yet.
It is the third tablet model with the bitten apple symbol, which will succeed the iPad 2 but most likely it will not be called either iPad 3 or iPad 2S, but iPad HD, in honor of the Retina Display which will make the eagerly awaited product the first with a higher resolution than a normal Full HD, less dense but with the same effect as the iPhone 4 and 4S: the text will be read as if it were printed, given that the pixels (four times that of the iPad 2) should not be visible to the naked eye.
The appearance, however, according to the latest rumors, should be the same as that of the current model. The only real exterior change that everyone expects is a slightly increased thickness, with a slightly more accentuated rear curvature also used to increase battery capacity.
For the processor, Apple will propose a chip called A5x, more powerful than the one mounted today on the iPad and iPhone, but not radically new, given that it would still be a dual-core. The camera, if possible, will be even more performing than the last version, with an 8megapixel resolution, while the screen should be 9,7 inches.
The iPad HD could arrive in Europe - at least in the UK - on March 16, right in time for the inauguration of the Apple store in Harrod's department store. Prices should remain in line with those of the iPad 2, or slightly higher.
