I'm curious as well, samd.

@Augustaya if you feel you have an issue with your new iPad give Apple a call. Their customer service is top notch. If you live close to an Apple store make an appointment with the Genius bar. They are very skilled and love helping.

IOS has an in-built wallpaper gradient mask which AUTOMATICALLY makes the wallpaper darken towards the bottom. It is impossible to remove it without jailbreaking the iPad, and there is no jailbreak for the iPad3 released publicly yet. You won't be able to see a plain white wallpaper if that is what you want...

So, now you've got MY curiosity up.

What, exactly, is your point, here? As in: where are you going with this?

Marilyn

And this is what your wallpaper looks like applied to the ipad3... (I downloaded and attached it)

Im curious too.
Photographs taken with unspecified / random cameras by different people in uncontrolled environments will not yield any useful comparison. White Balance is a challenge which cant be easily managed in this scenario IMHO.

I think the point is if you set a white wallpaper on the iPad, you get a gradient effect applied to it which make it dark at the bottom...so it won't appear white at all. You can set black, though.

This is a white background I found.

This is how it looks when I make it a wallpaper:

Here is that background on mine.