Apple Event Live: Apple Releases new iPad 2

On March 2, Apple invited many media members to announce it’s plans to reveal a new iPad. Today, at the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco, Californa- Apple announced the release of the new iPad, known as the Apple iPad 2 during the event.
Surprisingly, as we had expected Steve Jobs was also present at the event. The event started with Steve jobs on stage with a few update on the company’s achievements.
Steve Jobs said, “We’ve been working on this project for a while, and just didn’t want to miss this.”
He explained iBooks and how more than 100 million books had been downloaded in less than a year, the App Store that surpassed 2 billion dollars paid out to developers, and a many, many other achievements.
“In 2001, we had the iPod. In 2007, we had the iPhone. In 2010, the iPad.” At the event, Steve Jobs said, “When we introduced the iPad, we said it was our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device. People laughed at us for calling it magical — but it’s turned out to be magical. People didn’t necessarily agree with the price — but ask our competitors now 2010 was the year of the iPad. We sold nearly 15 million iPads in 2010.”

Then Steve Jobs went on to announce the biggest announcement. We are GOING to release the new iPad 2. Yes, the iPad 2 that uses a new dramatically faster chip known as the A5. The CUP is 2x faster and includes graphics 9x faster. Additionally, the power consumption is the same as that of an A4 chip.
The iPad two also has 2 built-in cameras as we had also expected- front and rear cameras. As well as a built in gyroscope. The second generation of the iPad is dramatically thinner 1/3inch, or 33% thinner than the previous model. Steve jobs also explained that the iPad 2 is actually tinner than the iPhone 4.
The iPad 2 is also ligher- from 1.5 pounds down to 1.3 pounds. It is available in WHITE as well. Jobs said, “we’re going to be shipping white from day one!” From day one, the iPad 2 will support AT&T and Verizion.

Just last year, Apple had also unveiled the original iPad at the Yerba Buena Center as well. The venue had also hosted numerous other Apple product announcements over the years. Till date, Apple has sold over more than 15 million Apple iPads in less than a year. This event, as expected was certainly a ‘big deal’ for many of us.
Apple has marked up the date for the new iPad 2 release on March 11!  Prices for the iPad will be the same exact as the ones for the previous model.