Apple iPad Announced!
Steve Jobs hosted Apple’s ‘latest creation’ event today and announced their new “revolutionary” product called the iPad. If you like your iPhone then you’ll probably love this…
What is it?
A touch-sensitive device that lets you browse the web, email, photos, videos (HD), music (built-in iPod), Google Maps, iTunes, calendar, and run apps from the App Store. Prices starting at $499.
Features?
- Portrait / Landscape viewing
- Multi-touch
- Full QWERTY (touch) keyboard
- Full screen webpages, videos, and apps
- Custom iPad apps
- Gaming
- iBooks
- iWorks
- AT&T 3G service ($14.99 up to 250mb, $29.99 for unlimited data)
Hardware?
- 0.5 inches thin
- 1.5 pounds
- 9.7 inch IPS display
- 1Ghz A4 processor
- 16 / 32 / 64 GB internal flash storage
- Wifi 802.11 n
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- Accelerometer / Compass / 30-pin connector / Speaker / Microphone
- 10 hour battery life (month of stand-by time)
Price?
WiFi : $499 (16GB), $599 (32GB), $699 (64GB)
WiFi + 3G : $629 (16GB), $729 (32GB), $829 (64GB)
Conclusion?
A glorified iPhone that Apple feels will fill a need for consumers that want something bigger than a mobile device but smaller and “better” than a laptop. What do you think? Is it for you?
“We’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. We want to make the best tech, but have them be intuitive. It’s the combination of these two things that have let us make the iPad.” – Steve Jobs
the battery life makes me want it for long flights, my laptop cant survive 2 hours of video playback >_<
Posted on January 27th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
You could get a nokia laptop that has 12 hours of life and on a 2 year contract it is only $200
Posted on January 27th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
I believe there is a market for this, but it doesn’t include me. I see it as being an alternative for those people looking to get a netbook and I’m not big on those. It may be priced too high though; for the same amount of money or less you could get a laptop with a 3Ghz processor and 300GB of storage. Then again, it is slick looking and has a better interface.
Posted on January 28th, 2010 at 6:40 am
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