iPad 2 event 2 March: what to expect

Apple iPad will officially 2 on March 2, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, put an end to a series of entries and a whole new range of sparks.

Tech (sort of) invitations mysterious giant print not-so-mysterious that have a date 2 March iCal and the words "come and see what will be the year of 2011." The iCal date is peeled Back on the top right corner to reveal an iPad.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Apple thinks the second generation of its iPad-iPad 2--is what 2011 "will be the year of".

That pretty much puts an end to the rumors and speculation when it announced iPad 2; Now is the time to speculate on what, exactly, are we going to see the 2 March.

Here's what we know about iPad 2:

It has a camera (or maybe two)

People have been speculating on an iPad with a camera, because the device debuted last year. In December, Chinese-made iPad 2 cases began showing on the Internet — some with holes in rear-facing camera. Cases had a cut in the bottom left, suggesting that maybe iPad 2 will have a rear-mounted speaker.

At the end of January, Mac iPad Rumors discovered a screenshot with three new standard app icons hidden in the developer version of iOS 4.3 Beta 2. The new icons were FaceTime, camera and PhotoBooth, suggesting some sort of camera will make an appearance on iPad 2.

My take: iPad 2 will have cameras and rear-front, even if a rear facing camera wouldn't make much sense.

It will have a better view

In January, we heard rumors of a graphics chip improved dual core landing in iPad 2--reportedly to power a high resolution display (1.536 800 pixels). Rumors (reported by AppleInsider) suggested that these specifications would put the HD 1080p video playback on the table.

Less than a week later, more items popped iPad screen 2. First, that iPad 2 would have a screen resolution of 2048 by 1.536 pixels (thanks, Digitimes) and then it wouldn't. IDC Research Director Tom Mainelli suggested that report of Digitimes wrong resolution of law, but the iPad--iPad version 2 does not have a screen 2.048-from-1.536 pixels, but could iPad 3. Later in the month of February, we have also seen some leaked photo of a repair shop China who showed no display of the retina.

My take: I'm pretty sure iPad 2 is going to have a better screen and "best graphics", but 1080p video will work only in theory.