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Overview

• What: Apple's March 2 iPad/iOS event
• Location: Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, California
• Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
• Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time
• Time of the event around the world

08:00AM - Hawaii
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Mountain
12:00PM - Central
01:00PM - Eastern
06:00PM - London
07:00PM - Paris
09:00PM - Moscow
11:30PM - Mumbai
03:00AM - Tokyo (March 3rd)
05:00AM - Sydney (March 3rd)

Live Stream: Possibly for 10.6+ and iOS devices. Check back tomorrow.

Liveblogs

• Engadget
• Ars Technica
• Mac Rumors Live
• Macworld
• Tech Crunch

 

[Kraftwerk]

What are the chances of Steve Jobs being there?

 

[Xater]

What are the chances of Steve Jobs being there?

I don't think he'll be there.

 

[Keyser Soze]

What are the chances of Steve Jobs being there?

...maybe via video (to pimp the camera/facetime)

 

[sixteen-bit]

What's expected from the iPad 2? No resolution boost, right?

 

[Mecha_Infantry]

The beginning of the end of all other tablets in 2011

edit* The buttons are reversed?

 

[Double D]

What are the chances of Steve Jobs being there?

Randy Marsh is the speaker.

Spoiler

They took err jerbs!!

Spoiler

sorry

 

[Zyzyxxz]

What's expected from the iPad 2? No resolution boost, right?

other than front camera/facetime I haven't heard anything about it.

I'm somewhat hoping its not too impressive since I was planning on picking up a used or refurbished iPad 1 once all the sheep flock to the new one.

 

[BAW]

What's expected from the iPad 2? No resolution boost, right?

Sadly, no.

 

[polyh3dron]

The beginning of the end of all other tablets in 2011

edit* The buttons are reversed?

lol, "other tablets in 2011" lol

 

[Keyser Soze]

What's expected from the iPad 2? No resolution boost, right?

Nothing big it seems.

- Camera (front, for conferencing)
- Lighter (by ounces)
- Small screen upgrade (no big resolution change)

Although doing a conference hints there could be something no one is talking about now. The stuff I listed is not enough for them to bother holding a conference about it

 

[Jill Sandwich]

What are the chances of Steve Jobs being there?

Slim.

 

[scorcho]

i'm hoping they introduce a super retina display that's 600+ dpi.

 

[numble]

other than front camera/facetime I haven't heard anything about it.

I'm somewhat hoping its not too impressive since I was planning on picking up a used or refurbished iPad 1 once all the sheep flock to the new one.

The cooking apps are great! But you may not need those.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Think I will wait for the dust to settle before getting rid of my 1G.

 

[polyh3dron]

What's expected from the iPad 2? No resolution boost, right?

I guess the price wasn't right yet for the resolution boost. From what I'm reading there will actually be a relatively quick turnaround from the iPad 2 to the next refresh which will have a higher res display. Reportedly it could come out towards the end of 2011.

 

[Xater]

Nothing big it seems.

- Camera (front, for conferencing)
- Lighter (by ounces)
- Small screen upgrade (no big resolution change)

Although doing a conference hints there could be something no one is talking about now. The stuff I listed is not enough for them to bother holding a conference about it

I am pretty sure we will get a better CPU and more RAM as well.

 

[U2NUMB]

other than front camera/facetime I haven't heard anything about it.

I'm somewhat hoping its not too impressive since I was planning on picking up a used or refurbished iPad 1 once all the sheep flock to the new one.

Dead on with how I am thinking. I want a tablet and I am fine with the iPad I just do not want to spend 500+ on it..

 

[taoofjord]

God I want the retina display on the ipad 2 so bad. I'm bummed that it's looking like it won't happen.

 

[epmode]

Waiting for that resolution bump. I can wait a long time!

 

[JohnTinker]

Waiting for that resolution bump. I can wait a long time!

You'll have to

 

[Mrbob]

This one won't have the resolution boost? Does this mean it won't have a dual core CPU and GPU?

16GB for $299/ 32GB at $499 a reality? I'd love to see 64GB at $499 but I'm sure we are a few years away from this.

What about a SD card slot?

 

[Arnie]

When's the iPhone 5 expected Apple Gaf?

 

[Mecha_Infantry]

Buttons in the same place

 

[Lord Error]

If Jobs was still there, heads would roll for that kerning on 20 11

 

[Seth C]

When's the iPhone 5 expected Apple Gaf?

When did the iPhone 4 hit? Figure that out and you'll have a solid guess.

 

[Xater]

When's the iPhone 5 expected Apple Gaf?

June.

 

[AiTM]

blah I sold my iPad around the time the retina displayed was rumored, because I knew I would get more for it before they announced the new one, with the plan of buying the new one when it came out this spring....

Now it seems the upgrade will be minor, with the real "iPad 2" coming possibly end of this year or next year...aghhh should I wait or buy? Wish I would have known this and held onto my iPad longer. That's what you get for speculating.

 

[Arnie]

June.

Cheers man.

 

[mj1108]

When's the iPhone 5 expected Apple Gaf?

Same time as every other iPhone: expect them to announce it in June.

 

[Tunavi]

Only Apple would unveil a new IPad this soon :|

Spoiler

I have a macbook pro

 

[Kano on the Phone]

God, and I just bought a new iPad 1. Fuck you, Apple.

 

[sammymoho]

This is going to sell ridiculously well. I know so many people who passed on the original iPad just because it was a first generation product but promised themselves to buy the second generation. I know I was one of those people. All I want is a front facing camera, for it to be lighter and something new from Apple to show us.

 

[stldave2]

Guess we will find out how much Fanboy dues are for the quarter.

 

[Technosteve]

Start your Bets,

-Steve Jobs Via Facetime on ipad 2 60%
-ipad 2 will use polycarbonate as the build material 40%
-a $399 ipad 90%
-iOS 5 will be reveled 100%
-and another thing.... atv2 will get gaming 1%

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Latest rumour for the iPad 2:

- 1,024 x 768
- 1.2GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU
- SGX543 GPU
- 512MB RAM

 

[Ohwiseone]

Wait, I though there was a rumor that the next iPad was going to have a smaller counterpart (like iPod nano), Or was that later found to be false?

 

[sammymoho]

blah I sold my iPad around the time the retina displayed was rumored, because I knew I would get more for it before they announced the new one, with the plan of buying the new one when it came out this spring....

Now it seems the upgrade will be minor, with the real "iPad 2" coming possibly end of this year or next year...aghhh should I wait or buy? Wish I would have known this and held onto my iPad longer. That's what you get for speculating.

I would buy it. The next iPad will come in roughly the same release cycle, so about a year.

 

[Xater]

God, and I just bought a new iPad 1. Fuck you, Apple.

Dude a March/April launch of the iPad 2 has been the talk since December. It's totally on you.

Latest rumour for the iPad 2:

- 1,024 x 768
- 1.2GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU
- SGX543 GPU
- 512MB RAM

I hope it will be 1GB RAM.

 

[Swag]

God, and I just bought a new iPad 1. Fuck you, Apple.

You serious?

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Latest rumour for the iPad 2:

- 1,024 x 768
- 1.2GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU
- SGX543 GPU
- 512MB RAM

In English, how significant is the CPU and GPU bump?

 

[sixteen-bit]

You serious?

going out on a limb here, but probably not

 

[sammymoho]

Start your Bets,

-Steve Jobs Via Facetime on ipad 2 60%
-ipad 2 will use polycarbonate as the build material 40%
-a $399 ipad 90%
-iOS 5 will be reveled 100%
-and another thing.... atv2 will get gaming 1%

Is it true iOS 5 will be revealed? Would it even be released for the iPad 2 before next fall?

 

[Futureman]

Is it true iOS 5 will be revealed? Would it even be released for the iPad 2 before next fall?

This would be a really, really, really lame event if it ran iOS4 and the only announcement was a spec bump.

 

[OneEightZero]

Hell yeah. Give me an awesome price drop on the first iPad. ^_^

 

[sammymoho]

This would be a really, really, really lame event if it ran iOS4 and the only announcement was a spec bump.

I certainly agree. It just seems early for it I guess because iOS4 was just released on the iPad like 3 months ago.

 

[Xater]

Hell yeah. Give me an awesome price drop on the first iPad. ^_^

Not gonna happen unless you see a used iPads as a price drop.

 

[Joel Was Right]

 

[scotcheggz]

^ lol that's terrifying

Sadly I'll most likely buy this iteration no matter what, just for the memory increase. It's the only thing that rags me off about the iPad. Looking forward to seeing what they got though, hopefully it will have some other extra goodness to get me excited.

 

[xtop]

curious to see if they'll sway me from buying a xoom