iPhone OS-based Apple iPad (tablet) officially announced, prices move at $500 (video)
The long-awaited Apple Tablet has foregather been officially announced, and it’s not named the iTablet of iSlate: it’s the Apple iPad – a eventual and quite gratifying name.
Steve Jobs himself is presenting the Apple iPad as cosmos subverter and magical, locution that it’s meliorate than both a good and a laptop.
Based on iPhone 3.2 OS, the Apple iPad is rattling anorectic (an iPhone meets iMac difference of device) and has a caretaker on-screen realistic QWERTY keyboard. Any iPhone app crapper removed on it.
It crapper be used for scheme intake (“the best scheme participate you’ve ever had”), email, video, music, photos, games and ebooks.
The iPad features Google Maps, Safari browser, Youtube (in HD) and comes with the iTunes accumulation built-in.
Apparently, there’s no Flash hold at the instance (huh, that’s not cool).
The iPad comes with a infant app – iBook, featuring a realistic bookshelf. You crapper acquire and download ebooks direct on your iPad.
Interestingly: some iPad models module effect Wi-Fi only, patch others module effect Wi-Fi and 3G. In the US, Apple and AT&T module center digit accumulation plans to attain that 3G conjugation useful: a 250MB organisation at $14.99 per month, and an oceanic organisation at $29.99 per month.
All iPads module be “unlocked”. Deals with operators around the concern module be declared in June.
Apple iPad prices:
- Apple iPad 16GB with Wi-Fi: $499
- Apple iPad 32GB with Wi-Fi: $599
- Apple iPad 64GB with Wi-Fi: $799
- Apple iPad 16GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $629
- Apple iPad 32GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $729
- Apple iPad 64GB with Wi-Fi and 3G: $829
The Wi-Fi models module be acquirable in 60 chronicle (March), patch the Wi-Fi + 3G ones in 90 chronicle (April).
The iPad module effect accessories: a case, a cut and a keyboard.
Some Apple iPad specs:
- 0.5 inches thin
- 9.7 advancement multi-touch capacitive designate with 1024 x 768 element resolution
- 1GHz Apple A4 chip
- Accelerometer, compass
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Wi-Fi
- Assisted GPS (only for the Wi-Fi + 3G model)
- SIM bill tray (only for the Wi-Fi + 3G model)
- 3.5-mm biaural headphone jack
- 16GB, 32GB, 64GB interior memory
- Standby: over 1 month
Video – Steve Jobs presenting the iPad – via ITN news:
If you’re wondering what’s the element / methodicalness difference between the Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and the Apple iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G, here’s the Wi-Fi exclusive version:
And the Wi-Fi + 3G version:
Live photos from the move event, via Engadget:
The iPad is today featured on Apple’s authorised website – where you crapper also download the iPhone 3.2 SDK for it.
