On January 27, 2010, Apple announced the original iPad, and it went on sale in April of 2010. Yesterday, Apple alerted the press that will announce the next generation of the iPad at 10:00 Pacific on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at an invitation-only event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. There are tons of rumors on the features of the new iPad — lighter? thinner? camera for FaceTime? — and we'll finally get the official word next week.
There is a picture on the invitation of a calendar with the top corner peeled back to reveal an iPad. The text on the iniviation reads: "Come see what 2011 will be the year of." I look forward to learning what Apple has planned for the 2.0 version of the iPad and when it will be available for sale. [UPDATE: Macworld has a good list of 11 features that the magazine's editors would like to see in a future iPad.]
