The Apple iPad is here (with photos + videos)
Today is the Big Day for all Apple fans worldwide and whoever was missing something between the iPhone and the Macbook. A device for reading eBooks, browsing the web, checking and replying to your emails, showing off photos, watching the latest videos and TV Shows, playing games and even do some navigation.
You have a new option for this now, the new Apple iPad. Steve Jobs announced it after weeks of rumors at an official Apple event today. Here are the details , the iPad video and some pictures of the gorgeous new Apple iPad. Will you buy one? Leave your opinion about the new Apple iPad in the comments section below…
The technical details of the Apple iPad:
- A first for Apple, their own chip is inside – 1GHz Apple A4 chip
- Weight: 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg) Wi-Fi model | 1.6 pounds (0.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model
- Height: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm) | Width: 7.47 inches (189.7 mm) | Depth: 0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
- Can handle (almost) all iPhone apps unmodified out of the box (in window or pixel doubling), 140.000 apps
- Built-in 25 Whr rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
- Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
- Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system
- Over one month of standby
- 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
- Full capacitive multitouch screen (over 1000 sensors!)
- 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi), Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
- Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
- Accelerometer and compass included
- Dock connector
- 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
- Built-in speakers
- Microphone
- SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model only)
- WiFi 802.11n
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- Memory 16GB | 32 GB |64 GB
- No flash support!
- Hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics
- New Apple iBooks store, but books online and read them in color (ePub format)
- No camera
- Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
- Can use iWork (each iWorks app will cost 9.99 US$)
- Easily connected to projectors
- Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter | 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable | 576i and 480i with Apple Composite Cable
- H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
- Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
- Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
- User-configurable maximum volume limit
- Sync via USB like iPod or iPhone
- Versions with 3G will be available (unlocked)
- Calendar, Email, Photos, Music, Movies, TV shows, Contacts, Bookmarks, Apps, eBooks, Internet
- Keyboard dock for external keyboard
- Probably no multitasking and no phone-calls possible
- Starting price is only 499 US$ (16GB with WiFi)
- 32 GB for 599 US$ | 64 GB 699 US$
- 130 US$ for 3G optional
- Most expensive iPad is 829 US$ – 64 GB including 3G and WiFi
- The box contains: iPad | Dock Connector to USB Cable | 10W USB Power Adapter | Documentation
- Shipping worldwide for WiFi only model in 60 days, 3G models starts shipping in 90 days
- Watch the Apple Keynote where the iPad was introduced
- Watch the official iPad video
Pre-Order YOUR iPad now!
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Well today is the day that Apple blessed us with the the glorious Apple iPad. Personally it’s exactly what I thougtht it was gonna be practically a bigger iTouch, I’m actually gonna wait until the next generation to pick an iPad up. I want to see one with a USB, microphone, camera and multitasking before I’ll make the jump. I especially think that a microphone is the most important feature it is lacking. What do you guys think?
Lester, the Apple iPad can be connected via USB to the computer and also has a microphone (how can it be used though?), but the camera is really missing. Just imagine skype or oovoo on this shiny iPad
Multitasking would be great too, you are absolutely right. But can you really wait for the 2nd generation??? It's just soooooo tempting….
Apple ipad lack the ability to play flash content,I think this is going to be a big drawback,I have recently bought nexus one google android phone and it can lauch flash enabled site without any hassle
The ipad is going to be perfect and will do pretty much every little thing that i would like. However, I seriously wished they would have decided to put a video webcam in the ipad. For the selling price I do think they ought to have found one way to add a webcam.
The analyst that I was listening to on Nice Polite Republicans this morning was saying that this was really making Amazon nervous
It will additionally force Amazon to open up the Kindle API for 3rd party development (or, a minimum of, if they
Very nice gadget and I should use in person for the next.
Lots of of bloggers aren’t very happy with the new iPad.There was just too much hoopla about it and lots of people got disapointed.Thing is, I can actually see some of the awesome potential uses of this device. Third-party applications for making tunes, games, newspapers and magazine and FFS books, all sorts of awesome stuff, but they failed to sell it very well (aside from the books). It looks kind of incomplete. that will be great if apple ipad comes with front cam to make video chat over the net. in the global market what ever the mobile produced it has front cam so user can make video call or video chat. if you look in to iphone its doesnt. this is the reason many people just quit to buy iphone. i believe apple company will not make the same mistake once again. will be great if ipad comes with front cam. will be one of the biggest sound around the world. i am wishing to see …..
The thing is just something I would buy my grandma. Cmon, lets face it, this one does not really do flash. I anybody really getting a gadget like this?
I cannot wait to get my Apple iPad pre-ordered. They look great. I am just not decided whether to get the wifi or the 3g and which size to get.