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Originally Posted by YaWhateva
Unless its changed recently, you can't use facetime unless its over wifi. The xooms front camera is 2.0 megapixels. If the camera was 5 megapixels like the niphine they would have said so. Its not. On the same specs they could absolutely have a higher resolution...how is that a negative? 9 times the graphic processing power and twice the processing power? If you are saying that can't handle a higher reslution you are dreaming. It could handle double the current resolution just fine. They are intentionally making it a minor upgrade so that the ipad 3 will be a complete revision.
Aesthetically the xoom and ipad 2 are equal imo.
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While AT&T and Verizon aren't offering Facetime over their 3G/4G networks yet, it's just a matter of time. I believe the iPhone was designed with non-wifi video chatting in mind, thus the VGA. And the VGA works just fine for what it does. How is higher resolution a negative? It's not. I said it was a trade-off, and I believe it is. Running a higher resolution screen means using a bit more video processing power, which theoretically means slightly less performance. The trade-off for that is the larger screen. iPad 2 has a lower resolution, but identical video processing power, and as such is theoretically capable of a bit more. Thus, it's a trade-off. Back when I was only using my Mac mini, I went between a 19" and 22" screen and the performance difference was noticeable. It's not that the iPad 2's hardware can't handle more resolution, it's just that with the resolution they have, this new hardware makes it even faster still.
Aesthetics are subjective, I'll grant you, but it would seem that the iPad 2's appearance is getting good reviews from tech publications. Most of Apple's products are well reviewed for aesthetics, as it's clearly a priority for them.