It’s new iPad week, and that means the rush is on to grab the first unboxing video, followed soon after by the first actual delivery and so on. You can check that unboxing video off your list -- a new 16GB iPad with 4G LTE has already surfaced in Vietnam, but there’s not a whole lot to see.
The video embedded below shows a 16GB Wi-Fi + 4G model being unboxed, which appears to be pretty much the same packaging from the iPad 2. There’s one notable difference, however: The camera lens on the new iPad is much larger than the one found on last year’s model, as you can see from the video when they are held side-by-side.
Tinh.te also ran a Geekbench test on their new iPad, which is displayed with the “iPad3,3” designation running iOS 5.1. If you were secretly hoping that the new iPad’s A5X processor would arrive running faster than the iPad 2, we’re sorry to disappoint -- the clock speed is 1GHz, which is identical to the previous model.
However, the Geekbench test did confirm speculation about how much RAM is included with the new iPad, and it has indeed been doubled to 1GB -- which should certainly help those quad-core graphics fly and make jumping between apps quite smooth, we’d think.
We’re sure to see more of these unboxing videos pop up in the next few days, and you’ll even get a chance to make your own come Friday -- though by then everyone will be too busy playing with their own to care.
Was this the video that has been already proven to be a fake? Cnet had this on Monday, and someone looked up the serial number and found it to be a iPad 2.
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