iPad 2 Hits Britain's Stores this month!

Around about 2 hours ago and several thousand thousand Miles away. Steve Jobs took the podium, in a surprise move after he stood down from Apple (hopefully temporarily) on medical grounds. The reason he thought he had to be their "We have been working on this product for a while and I just didn't want to miss today." Good on you Steve (or should it Mr Jobs???) and can I take this opportunity to wish you a speedy recovery.

The product he was talking about is of course the iPad2. For those that have been living in a hole for a year, iPad was released last year and has single handedly (does an iPad have hands?) kick started the long stalled tablet market. Earlier this year at the CES in Las Vegas many companies were releasing their iPad killers, but as we said "while everyone fights for a piece of the iPad market, what clever little gadget are Apple technicians working on". Well we get our first answer (of many we hope) here.

On first glance the iPad 2 has raised the bar once more. They have managed to shave 33% of the thickness, which is good going as iPad wasn't really that thick to start. It boosts the new A5 processor which will make the iPad 2 twice as fast, with graphics processing more than 8 times faster. It also comes with a camera which allows for iPad users to use the facetime, and for those who are just a little bit shallow it will now come in white as well as black. The only disappointment is that it still comes with a maximum of 64GB storage, and as yet no hint of the rumoured mini sd expansion slot.

So when is it available? It will hit UK stores on 25th March. When will it be available on spree4? Well that would be telling.....