Once you pick up iPad 2, it’ll be hard to put down. That’s the idea behind the all-new design. It’s 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter, so it feels even more comfortable in your hands. And it makes surfing the web, checking email, watching movies, and reading books so natural, you might forget there’s incredible technology under your fingers.
Quad Core A5X Chip
Four powerful cores in one A5X chip mean iPad 3 can do twice the work of the iPad 2. You’ll notice the difference when you’re surfing the web, watching movies, making FaceTime video calls, gaming, and going from app to app to app. Multitasking is brilliantly fast and smooth, apps load faster, and everything just works better.
Super Fast HD Graphics
With up to nine times the graphics performance, gameplay on iPad is even smoother and more realistic. And faster graphics help apps perform better — especially those with video. You’ll see it when you’re scrolling through your photo library, editing video with iMovie, and viewing animations in Keynote.
15 Hour Battery Life
Even with the original iPad 2 design, iPad 3 has an amazing 15-hour battery life. That’s enough juice for one flight across the ocean, or one movie-watching all-nighter, or a week’s commute across town. The power-efficient A5X chip and iOS5.2 keep battery life from fading away, so you can get carried away.
We took what we'd learnt from the iPhone 4S, added it to the iPad 3 and made it even better. With full 1080p video, 8MP photos and instant sharing capabilities you know it's got to be from Apple.
