TECHNOLOGY

As expected, Apple introduced the evening's successor iPad 2 which, contrary to expectations, no calls or iPad 3 or iPad HD ... but the "new iPad" or "third generation iphone "simply.

Apple iphone 3G

Tim Cook, who replaces Steve Jobs at the head of Apple, as is the tradition inaugurated the event by a point on the vision and the market for the company he runs. The CEO has focused on what Apple calls "post-PC era", which the iPad is the embodiment and the first two versions have gone to 172 million copies. Faced with Android tablets more accomplished technically, this success is the iPad more than 200 000 applications optimized for ergonomics.


But Phil Schiller, vice president of marketing at Apple, was quickly replaced Tim Cook to introduce the new model:

Retina display a definition of 2048 x 1536 pixels, a resolution of 264 pixels per inch, also offering a higher saturation of 44%
Apple A5X SoC CPU to GPU and dual-core to four units
iSight: CMOS sensor dorsal retro-exposed 5-megapixel, optical and infrared filter to 5 lenses, face detection, Full HD 1080p video with software stabilization
Siri and dictation, as the iPhone 4S
cellular connectivity: support for HSPA + (21 Mbps) and dual-carrier HSPA + (42 Mbps) in addition to the HSPA (7.2 Mbps) for Europe and even 4G LTE peaking at 73 Mbps for United States. Support for connection sharing as the iPhone.
autonomy of 10 hours in standard, from 9am to 4G
9.4 mm thick, 635 g

The new iPad uses the fee schedule of his predecessor, that is to say 500, 600 and 700 dollars for Wi-Fi models 16, 32 and 64 GB, and 630, 730 and 830 dollars for the same models 3G/4G. It will be available March 16 including the United States, France, Switzerland and Germany, and March 23 in many other countries, including Belgium.

The iPad 2 meanwhile remains for the time the catalog, but only 16 GB capacity for $ 400 with Wi-Fi version or $ 530 version of Wi-Fi + 3G or $ 100 less than up at present.


ILife applications on iphone 3G

New app iPhoto and made day of iLife and iWork app

Apple's flagship applications have been updated for the occasion: the iWork office suite, including Pages, Keynote and Numbers, then takes care of the Retina display of the new iPad, like iMovie and GarageBand, the latter benefiting passage of new features including a partition editor, synchronization and sharing via icloud.

Apple iPad to take advantage of the new iLife finally complete the third missing link: iPhoto.

On shelf, Photo Manager offers functions of "smart navigation", editing and multi-effects "professional quality". It facilitates the selection of photo comparison functions, exclusion by gesture, etc.. And sharing by email, Twitter or Flickr (or Picasa Facebook but neither is likely). Note that the application supports JPEG photos to a maximum resolution of 19 megapixels, which may be a limiting factor in only a few months.

iPhoto for iOS will go on sale today priced at $ 5.