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And thank you for staying with us. We will soon be giving more details about the new iPad, as soon as we can get our hands on one. Good night if you're in Europe, and have a good day in America!

Thanks a lot to The Verge and Engadget for the pictures

But they won't be unveiled today. To see them you can join us on this very same page for the coverage of the next keynote

And now the conclusion of the keynote: there will be lots of new things in 2012

Not a big fan of the name...

The name is simply the new iPad...

The iPad 2 will remain on sale for $399.

(just kidding)

maybe it won't be called iPad anymore after Apple had troubles with the brand in China!

but there is still nothing about the name

Now a little more information about the device itself. It still has the same dock connector and home button

however, here comes the bad news. It is not free, it will not ship with the new iPad, nor will it be included with iOS 5.1.

you will have to buy it and it will cost $4.99.

There is now a sharing tool.

Now once the pictures are edited, you have to be able to get them out of the iPad and share them to other devices or to friends

 

Here you can see all the new pencils illustrating different tools.

There are lots of autimatic tools to balance whites, remove red eyes, all seem very easy to use in the demo, we will see how easy and efficient they are in real life

The editing has become smart too, you can straighten a picture, enheance it with a single tap

With smart browsing,you can double tap a photo and iPhoto wil automatically detect all the other ones that look similar

The app can support quite heavy pictures, up to 19 MP!

it had new gestures, new effects, the possibility to do muti-touch editing of pictures, and beam photos detween devices

Now a new app, iPhoto comes to iPad!

we'll see how it looks like in reality since it is available for update today.

it now features storyboards and new editing chops

Now iMovie, which needed quite a big update

Same for GarageBand, it's been updated, with now Smart strings, Note Editor, iCloud and Sharing

the price doesn't changem still $9.99 per app

iWork has been updated, the update is available today

Now we are turning to Apple apps:

iWork, GarageBand, iMovie

Dungeons:

And in the mean time there is still no real name for the new device, it is just called new iPad

Autodesk

Namco

Now we are turning to another tradition, which is a lot less exciting: demos of different games and apps

One extra thing: the iPad is now heavier, and slightly thicker with 9.4 mm and 1.4 lbs

The iPad will be available on March 16th in selected countries:

Another good thing, it doesn't change on the batery life, still 10 hours

nor does it for the 4G models

Now the important part of you want to buy one: the price.

Good news, it doesn't change for the Wi-Fi

And it looks like we're done with the new features.

There is nothing revolutionary here, just the normal evolution of the device.

Also, something that looked like a small Siri: a voice dictation feature. The iPad now comes with a microphone.

 

Another major improvement is the support of 4GLTE network providing better wireless connectivity.

 

It can now shoot videos in 1080p

The iPad now comes with a new 5 MP camera, basically the one of the iPhone 4S but with the resolution of the iPhone 4

The biggest improvement comes on the graphics side, since it's a quad-core graphics, while the processor itself is still dual-core

it is designed for the Retina display and according to Apple it is twice as fast as the Tegra 3 (NVidia's competing SOC). You can be sure that it will be tested as soon as the iPad is available

as predicted, the new iPad (still no clue on it's official name, it could be iPad 2S) will not get an A6, but an A5X

with the iPhone 4, we can't see pixels when the device is 10" away. For the new iPad, it will be 15".

correction: the resolution is not 326 ppi like on the iPhone, but 264 ppi. Apparently it's enough to get a 'Retina' resolution, but we need Pythagoras to explain that:

and here is what it looks like:

Retina display means that it displays 326 ppi. It has a total resolution of 2048x1536 which means that it displays 3.1 MPixels

And once more Apple is re-inventing iPad, which now comes with a Retina display!

Apple probably didn't expect the iPad to sell that well when it launched 2 years ago. It is now reaching incredible sales numbers

And both the store and the device sales are a lot better than the other devices that were launched this past year:

needless to say that it's far more than any other store out there

It created its own environment at Apple which now has 200,000+ Apps specifically developed or optimized for the iPad

It is THE post-PC device, that has defined its category and that's leaving everybody behind

no big description is needed here: 15.4 million iPads sold in Q4 2011

Now we get to what we came for: the iPad

Good news, the price doesn't change, still $99, it is available for order today and will ship next week.

The demo doesn't feature a lot of new things. It is more integrated with other devices: it can load the iTunes playlist from the cloud, and can get 3rd party apps more easily

Now we get a demo by Eddy Cue:

As you can see, it features a new 1080p resolution and "it's gorgeous!"

Now it is time for the new Apple TV

And with the course of development of the OS, Mac OS and iOS are also even more linked together and it is most visible with iCloud, which now has 100 Million users

Of course, iOS has become even more linked throughout the years to the Apps Store, which now has over 585,000 apps

iOS is updated, the 5.1 version is available today

Now we are turning to the core of the keynote, iOS.

As you can see on this picture, Apple added an extra language, Japanese, to Siri.

TO those stores you have to add of course all the APR, but that's something Apple tends to forget now...

Apple now has 362 of them, which is quite exceptionnal considering that the figure was at 0 a little more than 10 years ago

Now we're turning to what has become a tradition, the review of the latest Apple stores that opened in the world

On a side note, it is here that Tim Cook is at his best, when he has to talk about numbers, he has been acting for years as the "down to earth" guy who was runniing all day to day operations while Steve Jobs was creating or re-inventing the devices

172 Million post PC devices were sold last year accounting for 76% of Apple's revenue for the last quarter!

and of course he explains how the iPad redefined its entire category, it truly invented the market for tablets

He is citing different devices, tablets, iPods, iPhone, iPad

He is introducing the keynote by talking about different post-PC devices, something that Steve talked about when he was interviewed at All Things D

As you can see the keynote is is beginning with Tim Cook taking the stage

Hello everyone, thanks for joining us