There’s a lot of buzz in the tech media lately about the release of iPad 2, many exisiting iPad users have already preordered or at least considering upgrading to the new device, and many non ipad users are looking forward to the opportunity to grabbign aused ipad on the cheap.

But are the improvements in the iPad 2 worth going out and acquiring a new device? Well let’s look at the improvements to see what has changed.

For the most part many features like the screen resolution, screen size, OS, wifi and blutooth devices, the 30 pin and audio port, hard drive options and oriignal retail prices have remained the same. So what has changed?

Firstly iPad 2 is a lot slimmer by a 1/5th of an inch, and naturally this means that the device is a lot lighter as well.

The rear camera has been improved to a 720p HD camera, and a new front facing VGA camera has been introduced. Hopefully there is some use for it, because from early 3G phones we found out that not many people like to look at grainy and laggy pictures of each other while having an conversation.

The RAM and processor has been improved as well, RAM has doubled to 512MB and the processor has been upgraded to A5 meaning that the slightly laggy apps should no longer be an issue on the new device.

All in all, there are some noticable and great improvements on the new device, probably not big enough to warrant an upgrade, but the iPad 2 should be a winner to attract new users to the ipad with a much lighter, thinner, faster device.