This Week in iPad 2

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Today on This Week in iPad, Lon Harris returns to review the Inception and The Dark Knight apps, we look at The Syndicate! HD in our game of the week, and something happened in San Francisco. Maybe you heard about it. All that and more on This Week in iPad.

Game of the Week!
This weeks game of the week is The Syndicate! HD a compulsion loop game along the lines of We Rule or Farmville. While Lon thinks the graphics are great, the game quickly becomes repetitive and the music is awful. It is free but the game play is designed to encourage in app purchase so buyer beware.

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iPad 2!!!
This week, Apple finally unveiled the next iPad at a special event at the Yerba Buena center for the arts. The iPad 2 will be thinner than an iPhone 4, lighter than the current iPad, feature a dual core processor, and be available on both AT&T and Verizon at launch. The iPad 2 will also be available in black and white from the first day, and will have front and rear facing cameras. Here's the video in case you missed it:



The iPad 2 wasn't the only new product that debuted at the event. Apple has also created a line of smart covers for the new iPad that use magnetic clasps to align on to the face of the iPad and when they're removed, the iPad automatically wakes up. Here's the video Apple made showing the smart covers in action:



Planet of the Apps

Movie Apps

Inception and Dark Knight
Lon looked at the Inception app this week and he thinks the app is ok. That said, the app is overly expensive and doesn't allow the movie to be imported into your iTunes on your computer. When the iPad 2 comes out, the HDMI connector will allow the movie to be broadcast to your TV in 1080p. Jacob looked at The Dark Knight and found many of the same issues Lon did. The consensus this week is that Blu-ray is still the best way to purchase content for now but that digital media continues to gain territory and these apps represent a great step forward.

Thanks to Lon Harris for coming back this week for Andrea. You can find him on Twitter @Lons and you can subscribe to his podcast at youtube.com/LonsTV. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next week!