Apple increases iPad with retina display to 128GB

Apple has announced a 128GB version of the fourth generation iPad with retina display.

The 128GB iPad with Wi-Fi and iPad with Wi-Fi + cellular models provide twice the storage capacity of the 64 GB models to hold even more valuable content including photos, documents, projects, presentations, books, movies, TV shows, music and applications.

"With more than 120 million iPads sold, it's clear that customers around the world love their iPads, and everyday they are finding more great reasons to work, learn and play on their iPads rather than their old PCs," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.

With twice the storage capacity and an unparalleled selection of over 300,000 native iPad apps, enterprises, educators and artists have even more reasons to use iPad for all their business and personal needs added Schiller.

The fourth generation iPad features a gorgeous 9.7-inch retina display, Apple-designed A6X chip, FaceTime HD camera, iOS 6.1 and ultrafast wireless performance. iOS 6.1 includes support for additional LTE networks around the world, and iTunes match subscribers can download individual songs to their iOS devices from iCloud.

iPad runs over 800,000 apps available on the App Store, including more than 300,000 apps designed specifically for iPad, from a wide range of categories including books, games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. iPad also supports the more than 5,000 newspapers and magazines offered in Newsstand, and the more than 1.5 million books available on the iBookstore.

The new 128GB versions of the fourth generation iPad will be available in black or white, for a suggested retail price of US $799 for the iPad with Wi-Fi model and US $929 for the iPad with Wi-Fi + Cellular model.