iPad 2 Announcement – iPad 2 Release Date

Apple finally made the iPad 2 announcement today in San Francisco. CEO Steve Jobs said “We’ve been working on this product for a while and I didn’t want to miss it.” He said that in nine months in 2010, Apple sold 15 million iPads.

Regarding the iPad 2, he said “It’s dramatically faster. It has a new chip called A5. It’s dual-core, so we get twice as fast performance on the cpu and nine times better graphics performance.”

Features:
– 10-hour battery life (same battery life as iPad 1)
– 33 percent thinner
– 0.5 mm thinner than an iPhone4
– 1.3 pounds (lighter than the iPad 1)
– rounder and in two colors (yes, a white iPad 2)

Models are available in 16, 32, and 64 GB versions, wireless and non-wireless, with data plans from AT&T and Verizon.

Same price as the old one — starts at $499. Shipping begins on March 11 in the United States, and March 25 to 26 abroad.