Another year, another set of Kevin Rose predictions, this time about the iPad 2. Apparently Rose has revealed to the subscribers of his foundat.io/n newsletter (and everyone else) that the iPad 2 announcement will be coming in 3-4 weeks, giving the exact date of February 1st as a possibilty. So basically last year’s iPad announcement date, plus a year and five days.
From the Blogg:
From: Kevin Rose (Foundation Newsletter)
I have it on good authority that Apple will be announcing the iPad 2 in the next “3-4 weeks”, possibly Tuesday February 1st. The iPad 2 will feature a retina display and front/back cameras.
If you’re thinking of buying an iPad, hold off for now.
Kevin
UPDATE: Spoke w/another source, the display has a “higher dpi”, but not technically a retina display. This seems odd to me, we’ll have to wait and see..
Briefly mentioned is a retina display and front/back cameras which is something that has been covered before quite a bit. The retina display tip seems to be the most controversial (Rose has amended it with a second update suggesting a higher dpi but not retina) and many are saying it’s impossible on a tablet platform. From the comments:
“No. No Retina. It’s just not feasible. Let’s look at the math.
iPhone 2G/3G/3GS is a 3,5″ screen with a 320×480 resolution. You get 164.83 PPI out of this screen.
iPhone 4 is a 3,5″ screen with a 640×960 resolution. You get 329.65 PPI out of this screen.
> iPhone 4 has a PPI over 300, which Steve Jobs himself said to be more pixels per inch than the human eye can pick out, thus it’s a Retina Display. Now to the iPad(s).iPad has a 9,7″ screen with a 1024×768 resolution. You get 131.96 PPI out of this screen.
What about if the mythical Retina iPad was released? What if it had the same screensize as the iPad and the same PPI as iPhone 4? It would need to have a 2560×1920 resolution to be able to reach 329.9 PPI, about the same as iPhone 4. Feasible? No.”
Kevin Rose occasionally predicts things, like this and this and this, and is occasionally right and occasionally wrong (remember the slide-out keyboard on the iPhone?). Clock is ticking on this one, in the meantime sign up for his newsletter!
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Kevin Rose is a Partner at Google Ventures, where he primarily focuses on early-stage and seed investments. Prior to joining Google Ventures, Kevin co-founded Milk, a mobile application development company in San Francisco. Previously Kevin was the founder of Digg, and co-founder of Revision3, and Pownce (acquired by Six Apart). In addition, Rose is the founder of Foundation, a private newsletter and podcast, and formerly was co-host of the tech news podcast Diggnation.
Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007. Among the key offerings from Apple’s product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook Air) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod, the...
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