After finding out that the New iPad features a 11.560 mAh battery, it’s time to see the effects of this decision taken by Apple. First of all the reasons why they put such a big battery on the slate: juicing up the Retina Display requires more power and the LTE connectivity also consumes a lot of juice. And now through that battery you will also need to charge the tablet for a longer time than the iPad 2.
The power source on the new iPad provides 10 hours of battery using 3G, 9 hours of battery using LTE and this is achieved by packing twice the battery capacity into the same specs. The info about the long charging time comes from early iPad reviewer M.G. Siegler, confirming that on Techcrunch. He talks about several hours of charging and maybe even leaving the slate to charge overnight. Apple may have found a way to get more battery into a tinier space, but they didn’t manage to develop a quick charge technology as well…
Maybe they will borrow one from Sony, since they seem to be doing that pretty well. A couple of Walkman players from Sony and the Xperia S handset support quick charging, that function that gives you about an hour of functioning time with 10 minutes of charging. The iPad 3 could sure use that…
