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Originally Posted by AppleInsider 

The portable media player has not seen a significant update since September of 2010.

And I have no idea why...

But, is this on iPod touch, too? (the VIP mail and Shared Photo Streams)

Shame iPad 1 misses out. From the reviews on the app store, it seems to have a lot of crashing issues due to lack of memory. Anecdotally it suffers more from lack of RAM than the 3GS. I sold my iPad 1 when the new iPad came out, and performance wise it's night and day.

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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie 


Depends what you use it for, obviously. I bought the 3rd Gen because I'm into photography and wanted to see my photo's an that new screen. But the whole thing doesn't actually add much, for me, over the 1st Gen, which is still a great device. People who play games and such will disagree, and rightfully so. But to say, in general, that the difference between a 2010 and a 2012 iPad is N&D difference is, well, off.

I'm not sure I agree about iPad 1.0 as it's seriously memory challenged and noticeably slower than the later two versions.  

IMO the big "dirty secret" that everyone knows but doesn't talk about much is that the iPad 3.0 is almost no different from the iPad 2.0.  Yes it has the "retina" screen, but it's not a big difference when you see them side by side "in the flesh" and the main noticeable difference in the hand is only negative.  The iPad 3.0 is noticeably heavier than the iPad 2.0.  

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Originally Posted by Gazoobee 

 

I'm not sure I agree about iPad 1.0 as it's seriously memory challenged and noticeably slower than the later two versions.  

 

IMO the big "dirty secret" that everyone knows but doesn't talk about much is that the iPad 3.0 is almost no different from the iPad 2.0.  Yes it has the "retina" screen, but it's not a big difference when you see them side by side "in the flesh" and the main noticeable difference in the hand is only negative.  The iPad 3.0 is noticeably heavier than the iPad 2.0.  

thats because no one cares. Its heavier due to the battery due to the graphics having to push 4x more pixels.  Ipad 3 is marginally slower than ipad 2 but most wont notice the difference. Only on benchmarks you will see that but who runs benchmarks.  The screen is nice and to some makes a big difference. Apple did make ipad 2 cheaper if ipad 3 doesnt float your boat

I know what the benchmarks say but I put my new iPad next a 2 last week and we ran a few a few apps and the new iPad just beat the 2 every time.

There wasn't much difference but enough to notice, they are both 32 Gb.

The weight is noticeable when weighing one in each hand but not a problem in day to day use.

What is good to see is Apple trying to get some of the IOS 6 features on older machines, I assume they are are being discerning to ensure that user experience is not downgraded to much. (although I expect there will be at least a few posts saying that Applebis holding back features just to encourage sales of new product!)

My 3GS may be able to upgrade to iOS 6 but do I want to?  It already crawls with iOS 5...this is the year to upgrade anyway for me.  My last phone I had for 3 years and I have done fine with this one.
 

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Originally Posted by icoco3 

My 3GS may be able to upgrade to iOS 6 but do I want to?  It already crawls with iOS 5...this is the year to upgrade anyway for me.  My last phone I had for 3 years and I have done fine with this one.
 

You should upgrade every 2 years. The phone is the cheapest part of using the smartphone when on contract.