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Apple holding March 2 media event (updated)

By | February 22, 2011, 8:06pm PST

Summary: Apple’s expected to announce a lighter iPad 2, with dual-cameras and better screen at a media event in San Francisco on March 2.

WSJ and NYT report that Apple will hold a media event on March 2 to announce the iPad 2.

The successor to the wildly-popular first-gen iPad is rumored to be thinner, have a better screen, dual cameras with FaceTime support and a Qualcomm dual-mode GSM/CDMA chip — possibly the same MDM6600 (a.k.a. “Gobi”) chip spotted in the Verizon iPhone 4.

Kara Swisher notes that since Apple has sold 15 million iPads in less than a year, the event is a “very big deal.”

If things pan out, we could see a new MacBook Pro this week, and iPad 2 next week. Good times!

Update: It’s confirmed and the usual media outlet have received a less-than-subtle invite, pictured above. The invite itself is obvious and kind of un-Appley, but whatevs. A new iPad is coming, so we’re good.

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: Apple invites media to March 2 event (consensus: iPad 2)
davecordale 23rd Aug
Visited that announcement...nothing special. As always Steve told many good words about iPad..
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RE: Apple invites media to March 2 event (consensus: iPad 2)
tsuvik 22nd Feb 2011
As Kara had stated in that article, the invite above is from earlier event and they haven't got the invites yet happy
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RE: Apple invites media to March 2 event (consensus: iPad 2)
4justincase 22nd Feb 2011
Yeah, it was reported only today that there were no invites yet. But anyway, i think that Steve Jobs being there after his medical leave plus the unveiling of the ipad 2 coupled together would really drop a bomb on consumers. A bomb that I expect Apple hopes to use to contend with the growing competition.
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RE: Apple invites media to March 2 event (consensus: iPad 2)
4justincase 22nd Feb 2011
Stop spamming my message, jeez. Anyway, as I said in my "spammed" comment, I don't think the invites have actually been sent out yet. But Steve's possible appearance plus the announcement of the ipad 2 would certainly draw huge amounts of attention away from the growing competition, at least press-wise.
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Jason D. O'Grady 22nd Feb 2011
I updated to post to reflect the fact that it's just a rumor and that no actual invitations have been sent out yet.
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Maybe something else too???
pyrdek 23rd Feb 2011
With the Intel chip problem announced recently, is there any chance that the iMac series may also be in line for an upgrade. It is about 7 or 8 months since the last iMac models came out. Could Apple have "found" a source for chips that would allow an upgrade to be released just about the time colleges end the semester?
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I'm buying both...
Arshammm 23rd Feb 2011
... and so are millions of other people. (get more AAPL stock?)

It seems everyone I talk to about getting an iPad says: "wait till the next gen" Well, here comes the next gen!

Whether the iPad2 actually happens or not, I think the mbPro is right around the corner.. great news.
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Does this mean the Rim vaporbook will get pushed back again???
i8thecat 23rd Feb 2011
So all the vaporpads are about to get pushed back even further (when they can't compete with the iPad2 on any level)??? Perhaps those morons should take a page from Apple and not release any information until they have already made a tablet and are ready to ship it... Oh wait.. They are all morons...
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RE: Apple invites media to March 2 event (consensus: iPad 2)
john_gillespie@... 24th Feb 2011
Don't know ... but I heard Steve Ballmer is in his office gluing together a balsa 'Tablet 2'.
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RE: Apple invites media to March 2 event (consensus: iPad 2)
davecordale 23rd Aug
Visited that announcement...nothing special. As always Steve told many good words about iPad..
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