By: Michelle Maisto, eWeek
Apple’s March 2 introduction of the iPad 2 is sending Samsung executives back to the drawing board. “We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate,” Samsung Executive Vice President Lee Don-Joo told the Yonhap news agency, according to Physorg.com, reflecting on how Samsung’s contribution to a market spurred by the original iPad now holds up to Apple’s next-generation tablet. “Apple made it very thin.” The iPad 2 weighs 1.35 pounds (versus the iPad’s 1.5 pounds) and measures 0.34 inches thin—making it a third thinner than the original iPad and thinner even than the iPhone 4. It features a dual-core processor that Apple calls the A5 and says makes the iPad 2 twice as fast as its predecessor. The iPad 2’s graphics are also nine times faster, and the device can achieve 10 hours of battery life and includes a built-in gyroscope and front and back cameras for video calling.
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