Unboxing the third-generation Apple iPad
Fresh from the new Grand Central Apple store in New York, we unwrap the latest iPad.
- Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
We've already seen an unboxing video from CNET Australia, thanks to that country's envious position as the first across the International Dateline into tomorrow. Now it's time for New York to get in on the act, along with rest of the eastern United States.
Rather than wait for the FedEx delivery person (and we're still waiting...), we jogged down to the new Grand Central Station Apple store, where it took only a few minutes and a wrist band to get our hands on a 64GB AT&T third-generation iPad.
The box and its contents will look familiar to any current iPad owner. It seems to be a universal observation, but the new model does feel obviously heavier, although the difference in thickness is much harder to see.
The new high-res screen is certainly nice, but it seems a bit dimmer when set to half brightness than an iPad 2. At first glance, you may not even be able to tell the two screens apart, but it becomes obvious when reading, for example, The New York Times online, when held at about the distance you'd hold a newspaper or magazine, with clearer, crisper type.
Stay tuned for much more on the new iPad, including our official full review.