New iPad '3' Release Date Nears, Retina Display Screenshots Hit the Web

A Vietnamese tech site, which claims to have its hands on the new 6GB WiFi + 4G iPad, has leaked photos taken with the tablet's new camera displayed on the revolutionary iPad Retina Display.

The site, Tinhte.vn, has taken a series of pictures with the new and improved 5-megapixel camera, as well as taking screen shots that boast the iPad's 2048 x 1536, 3.1 million pixel display, the most ever in a mobile device.

While the photos are certainly an improvement from the 0.8 MP camera of the iPad 2, they aren't accurate of the new iPad's real camera performance as they have been downsized from the original 5MP size in order to fit the resolution size of the Website.

The new iPad will hit stores across the world on Friday at 8 a.m. local time. People have already starting lining up in front of London and New York stores, after the initial pre-orders for the tablet have sold out online.

Demand for the new tablet is off the charts, according to Apple, and shipments for current pre-orders will start shipping from March 19, three days after the tablets retail launch.

The iPad will initially be available in stores in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

In the U.S the iPad will also be on sale at Best Buy, Radio Shack, Sam's Club, Target, and Walmart.

More features of the new iPad

Processor: A5X quad-core processor touted as twice as fast and four times better performance than Tegra 3 chip.

Camera: 5-megapixel backside illuminated sensor on the back, 5-element lens, IR filter, and ISP built into the A5X chip.

Video: 1080p video recording.

Voice Dictation: Supports U.S. English, British, Australian, French, German and Japanese.

4G LTE: New iPad now has 21Mbps HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA at 42Mbps, with LTE taking the cake at 73Mbps. Verizon, Rogers, Bell, Telus and AT&T will be the LTE partners.

Battery Life: 10 hours of battery life still! 9 hours on 4G!

Size: 9.4mm thin, weighing 1.4lbs.

Price: $499 for 16GB! 32GB is $599 and 64GB for $699.

Release Date: March 16th.