New iPad owners: Here are all the apps you should download

By Andrew Couts Published March 16, 2012

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Apple’s new iPad is officially on sale. The hot new tablet became available at Walmart at 12am this morning, and at Apple stores at 8am. As most of you likely already know, the big new feature in the third-generation iPad is its Retina display, which sports a 2048×1536 resolution, twice that of the iPad 2. Unfortunately, if you want to really enjoy the better resolution, you’ll need to download apps that have upped their pixel count as well. Here, a complete list of all the iPad apps out today that have been upgraded to maximize the shiny new screen:

Update: The ones we missed

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If you know of any other apps upgraded for the new iPad that don’t appear on this list, let us know in the comments, or email your author: acouts@digitaltrends.com

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