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Apple's iPad 2 One More Thing: iTunes in the Cloud?

24.02.2011
Apple said earlier this week that it will hold an event on March 2 in San Francisco, with all signs pointing to an iPad 2 unveiling. This lit up the blogosphere with predictions about what might be in the iPad 2, whether or not Steve Jobs will be presenting, and, of course, what might be the "one more thing" Apple is famous for at these events.

Consensus has the iPad 2 sporting at least a front-facing camera, more memory, and a thinner and lighter body. There is a good chance of a rear-facing camera, more storage, a more powerful graphics processor, better speakers, and iPhone 4-like sensing capabilities such as gyroscope.

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What the iPad 2 won't have: Retina display. For technical reasons, Apple needs to double the iPad's current resolution in order to improve it. Apple has been working (and spending billions) with suppliers to do this-but a higher resolution won't be ready in time for the iPad 2.

"I think the iPad 2 is going to play catch up to the iPhone 4, with the exception of a higher resolution," . He also would like the iPad 2 to have a multi-core chip for better multitasking. "They desperately need it. Multi-tasking on iOS is painful."

Whether or not Jobs will present the iPad 2 is anybody's guess, of course. But odds went up after Jobs, who is on medical leave, was healthy enough to show up at a dinner of Silicon Valley's tech titans and President Obama last week.