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The new iPad: Everything you need to know about Apple's 2012 iPad 3rd generation

Everything you need to know about Apple's 2012 iPad

Apple's 3rd generation iPad was announced on March 7, 2012. While the new iPad looks like last year's iPad 2, it has a better screen, processor, optics, and networking that combine to make it an impressive upgrade.

Key features: 2048x1536 264dpi Retina display, Apple A5X processor, 5 megapixel/1080p video iSight camera, HSPA+ 42mbps/LTE 72mbps networking.

Pricing: Wi-Fi $499/16GB, $599/32GB, $699/64GB; Wi-Fi + 3G/LTE $629/16GB, $729/32GB, $829/64GB

Availability: March 16 in the U.S., Australia, Canada, the U.K. and 8 other regions; available March 25 in Italy, Spain, Ireland, Mexico, and 21 other regions

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Apple has just announced its line up for the annual iTunes Festival. The event which first started in 2007 has been hugely popular as all of the tickets are given away free of charge. The live concerts all take place at London’s The Roundhouse and it all kicks off on September 1st and goes on until September 30th.

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Cuboid is a fun 3D puzzle game for the iPhone and iPad of flipping and rolling a cuboid through a maze-like puzzle placed in the setting of mystic, ancient ruins.

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You’ve got the new iPad, you have tried out your front facing camera with FaceTime, but now you realize that many of your friends don’t live in the iOS world. So, how can you video chat with your BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone friends?

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Stunt Pear is a physics-based puzzle game where you catapult a cute little pear to smash, bounce, and spin your way through 144 levels. The objective is easy, get the pear in the barrel -- but that's easier said than done with gears, cannons, bubbles, tires, pinball bumpers, skateboards, and shopping carts as obstacles.

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Best free iPad games

By , Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 12:27 pm
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Looking for the very best free games for your iPad? Whether it's strategy, shooter, sports, casual, physics, action, role-playing, racing, word, or sims, iMore has carefully collected dozens of our favorite free iPad App Store games and listed them below for your playing pleasure.

We'll be updating the list regularly, and adding new games and new categories, so bookmark this page and check back often!

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Apple.com no longer shows a product called iPad Wi-Fi + 4G, and has instead renamed it the less internationally controversial iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular.

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