iPad (3rd generation)

The third iPad brought the Retina display, doubling resolution in both directions to 2048x1536, which is more pixels than a 1080p television and was the highest-resolution screen on any consumer device at the time. Driving that many pixels cost something. The A5X needed a quad-core graphics unit, the battery grew to 11,560 mAh to hold the ten-hour figure, and the tablet gained back some of the thickness and weight the iPad 2 had shed. It also ran noticeably warm, enough that the complaints had a name within days. Apple replaced it after seven months with the fourth generation, the shortest life of any iPad, which annoyed a great many people who had bought one in March.