The stage is set for Apple’s third generation iPad to go on sale tomorrow morning at 8am, and with numerous devices sitting in various retailers’ stock rooms around the world, further information has started to leak online.
With a good 16 hours to go until sale time, the clever people over at iFixit.com have got their hands on the first legit-bought and legit-owned new iPad in the world. In typical iFixit fashion, that iPad has also become the first purchased iPad in the world to be opened up and taken apart.
While their iPad is still on the operating table being carefully taken apart piece by piece, new information on the iPad’s huge 42.5-watt-hour battery has come to light. The new iPad has a battery cell that is twice as capacious as the iPad 2, yet the battery life of the iPad stays the same at 10 hours, due to new power-hungry parts such as the eye-popping Retina Display and the Quad-Core graphics chip.
However, as you might have guessed, a battery that’s twice as big will take longer to charge, and in the case of the new iPad, it will take several hours longer, when compared to the charging time of the iPad 2. MG Siegler of Techcrunch confirms this in his recent review of the iPad:
“So how was Apple able to keep the battery life the same while adding LTE and without drastically changing the design? It appears that they’ve had a fairly major breakthrough in their battery technology. While the new battery clearly isn’t much bigger than the old one, it can hold much more juice (42 watt-hours versus 25-watt-hours). The downside of this is that I’ve found it takes quite a bit longer to charge the new iPad. As in several hours — you’ll probably want to do it overnight.”
With the iPad 2 we found that a full charge could be achieved within around 4 hours, but this looks set to drastically change with the new iPad. So, word to the wise: if you’re picking up a new iPad tomorrow or in the near future, don’t panic if it doesn’t charge super-quickly, just start charging it overnight and you should be fine.
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Source: TechCrunch