Rumors, rumors, rumors. That was all one would get while searching for the Apple Tablet. The tablet was revealed yesterday by Steve Jobs who confirmed that the tablet will be named iPad.
The name resemblance is not the only similarity to Apple's overly successful branch of gadgets. The show yesterday revealed lots of information about the iPad and we have collected all the important bits for you to help you get an overview of what it can and cannot do.
Let us start with the price of the device. The announcement that the cheapest model of the iPad would cost $499 was a surprise to many who expected the tablet to start at $799 or even more than that.
But $499 means that the device will have severe limitations. It comes with a 16 Gigabyte SSD drive and no 3G. The 32 and 64 Gigabyte iPad models retail for $599 respectively $699 but they too come without 3G. 3G costs $130 on top of this which means that the price span for the iPad ranges from $499 for the basic iPad without 3G to $829 for the 64 Gigabyte hard drive version of the iPad with 3G.
Dimensions and weight:
iPad Hardware specs:
What speaks for the iPad? Its design obviously which is something that Apple seems to be very capable of doing right. Support for the all apps that are currently offered in the App Store.
What the iPad does not offer:
The unknown
There you have it. The iPad is there and it seems that while some users cannot wait to get their hands on the stylish tablet computer others are wary and prefer to wait for the soon to be released iPad 3G instead.
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for what i care most… the formats, and DRM NICE device
The first Steve’s shit. I’m disappointed
iPad!! BIG iPhone – anyway let us wait and see………………….
Basically they target people who have Apple notebook, Apple phone and can be sold Apple tablet on top. :)
Because close Apple on it and it is boring and expensive toy.
And again (starting up with the first Apple II) a ferry ferry expensive and not much doing ferry ferry bling bling (hip hop) thing from Apple for all the (ferry rich) juppies in the world, who still believe that apple is so ferry stylies/hip. $499 even with 3G (only in the more expensive models) without a usb port is way to much money. And you know that hp white his 110 model in 1985 already has something like this what was only a littel bit bigger.
How can Jobsworth claim this is the true internet in your hand, when it doesn’t support Flash – talk about failing before it’s even sold…..
I came across this interesting article today:
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How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
By Peter Kirn
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/27/how-a-great-product-can-be-bad-news-apple-ipad-and-the-closed-mac/
There are converters from USB and SD cards to the 32 pin iPod connection.
no flash??? How could I play web poker,,, the most favorite web game in my country,,, [ID],,, they spend their time about 6 hour perday playing this
and
too expensive