Apple CEO Steve Jobs surprised and delighted the audience at the Yerba Buena Center for Arts in San Francisco today to unveil the iPad 2. The second-generation iPad comes in white and black and is thinner and lighter at 8.8mm (old iPad has a 13.4mm thickness). Apple also designed a new iPad smart cover that attaches to the iPad magnetically and can be flipped open to transform into an iPad stand. The new iPad has the same price points but is twice as fast and has a dual-core A5 chip. The iPad 2 also has both front and back cameras.
Apple has posted two videos:
