Sunday, January 1, 2012

New Apple Speculation for 2012!

2012…..

By now we thought we would be living on Mars and have flying cars….Not so much…
So we are not on or Mars or even the Moon and we don’t have flying cars or even a stupid hoverboard. The one thing we do have that has spawned so fast few people could have predicted it was our smart phones. Our smart phones can do more computing than the first computers could while we are on the phone talking to someone and surfing the web. And the iPhone is the biggest innovator in this genre. Whenever it is released it changes the game. Although the iPod is what put Apple back on the map the iPhone is the reason they are still there. Yes the iPad is cool and so are macbooks but the iPhone is the reason Apple’s stock is over 400$ a share. With that being said we shall make some predictions for 2012 of what Apple maybe releasing.

iPad 3
I believe that the new iPad will be released around March. It could be announced in February, is because Steve Jobs’s birthday is February 24th. A February announcement could be a nice memorial to the man who had the vision to bring Apple back from the abyss.

Now that we have a date we need to think about what can be changed to an already great product. First the easy stuff like adding a retina display. This will make the picture of the iPad that much smoother. The retina display just doubles the pixel count on the LCD screen. It creates a sharper image by packing more pixels into tighter spaces. 1,024x768 is the resolutions for the iPad 2 the 3rd could be double that.
How much faster will it be? I assume that Apple will roll out an upgraded a6 chip an upgrade over the A4 chip currently in the iPhone 4 and the A5 chip is in the iPad2 and the iPhone 4s. I would be lead to believe by History that Apple will introduce a new chip will they dare call it the A6 chip? Each chip is a little bit faster but also works on power efficiency.
In addition they will definitely add 1080p recording capabilities for the back camera and an increase to the front camera. I don’t know if it will ever be equivalent to the iPhone camera’s but it will definitely be a big increase from the iPad2. As well as adding 4g support for the iPad even though all the major carriers are lacking anything remotely close to the actually 4g speed which would be 12.5Mb’s per second, Yea that is fast compared to 3G which is about .025Mb’s per second. So if the carriers actually put money back into their networks instead of trying to buy other companies they would have it already.
How much will it cost? I believe they will only release one iPad this year and this iPad 3 will be the higher end model and like the others come in Wifi and 4G. I believe it will cost more than the previous two. It will be fully HD with screen and camera and will have a fast 4G card installed as well as a faster CPU and increased memory. The iPad 2 has 512mb of ram I believe to utilize the fully HD it will be doubled to a GB of ram. This could be held off till the 4 but I believe this is inline with the higher end model.
They will still make the iPad 2 and they will be the lower end iPad

iPod Touch 5
I believe this will be happening sometime soon this year. I believe that if they wanted to make a smaller iPad it would be senseless and hurt the iPod touch market considering they would compete against each other. I could see them adding a larger model to the iPod touch world maybe the 7 inch screen the size of the Dell Streak or the smaller Samsung Galaxy. The new iPod will have a better screen more speed and maybe bigger storage. I don’t think this will be anything major besides making it faster. They are a bitch to repair, so I would love to see the inside changed around a bit because they are also easily cracked. That is why I don’t believe the iPhone will ever get much smaller because they tried it with the Touch 4g and it is a quasi disaster since they crack often and the LCD and Digitizer are only held on by a thin line of glue.

These are all speculations I have made from working on the hardware and knowing tendencies of Apple’s past. They are in no way fact or to be represented as such. This blog is property of SATA COMPUTERS and Google probably to since they own everything.

Coming Soon iPhone 5 speculation!