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Apple launched the iPad tablet system, having a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 monitor and 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB capacities. Having a specialty 1 GHz "Apple A4" computer chip, the iPad weighs in at in at 1.5 lbs as well as is .5-inch thin. The iPad are likely to be listed at $499, $599, and $699 for the many different capacity models with no 3G, plus $629, $729, and $829 with 3G. Wi-Fi only versions are scheduled to ship in 60 days, with 3G-capable model shipping in Ninety days days. A video tutorial preview is also offered.


In terms of standard connectivity, the iPad gives you Wi-Fi (802.11n) and Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, with 3G styles also giving mobile data connectivity. Every iPad versions provide an accelerometer, compass, loudspeakers, a microphone, plus a 30-pin dock connector. The iPad also offers a claimed 10 hours of electric battery life for watching video, with A 30 days of standby battery power life.

Units with 3G is going to be unlocked and can use GSM micro SIMs. In the U.S., AT&T will offer you a couple of data plan possibilities ? $14.99 for up to 250 MB per 30 days and $29.99 per month for limitless data. No long term contract is needed for either alternative, and zero cost usage of AT&T's Wi-Fi hot spots is included. Data packages for iPad customers beyond the U.S. will by set by June.


The iPad could have standard applications for personal data management, such as an
book and calendar, as well as e-mail, Safari, Google Roadmaps, and Notes. A unique version of iTunes is also on board to supply an optimized browsing experience for the device's 9.7-inch display screen.

Equipment may also be designed for the iPad, this includes a dock which has a physical keyboard that could provide the iPad in portrait positioning and also a case with a built-in stand for video viewing. Price tags on these components were not publicised. The iPad also supports Bluetooth keyboards.

Many demos showed unmodified iphone programs working on the iPad at original resolution and scaled up to make the most of the iPad's enhanced display screen real estate. In accordance with Scott Forstall throughout his time on stage, the iPad can run "virtually every" iphone app with no customization, with an on-screen button to scale an app's quality up and down as preferred. iphone users will not require to re-purchase applications to load them on to an iPad.

The event was also rife with demos, presenting Gameloft's N.O.V.A., an art application referred to as Brushes, Electronic Art's Need for Speed Shift, and video within a Major League Baseball app.

As anticipated from recently available rumors concerning Apple's discussions in the previous couple of days with important newspaper and tv publications, the New York Times was available to demo a dedicated New York Times application, telling they were proud to "pioneer the next era of digital journalism." The application offers an extended view of the paper's content with in-line video watching and synchronization ability with the iphone iphone app.


Jobs then revealed the iBooks application, referencing Amazon's Kindle and describing that they wished to "stand on their shoulders and go a little further." The iBooks app has a store - the iBookstore - showcasing content material from Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette Book Group. iBooks uses the open ePub standard and gives tables of contents and intuitive page navigation on the iPad, and the capacity to view in portrait and horizontal orientations using the integrated accelerometer. Jobs pointed out True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy, describing its $14.99 cost within the iBooks store.

New iPad-specific editions of iWork software also made an appearance in the occasion, along with demos of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers by Phil Schiller for the iPad. Schiller pointed out specialized on-screen keyboards as well as drop-down menus to focus it's ease of use of those programs within the iPad. The iWork apps will cost $9.99 each.

At the end of the event, Jobs referred to the iPad as the company's "most advanced technology in a wonderful and groundbreaking system at a fantastic cost." He also pointed out that there are over 125 million iTunes accounts with credit card and that using the iPad is going to be second-nature to the more than 75 million iphone and iPod touch customers.

Builders may access the newest iphone SDK 3.2 right now, giving tools for creating iPad programs such as guidelines, sample code, and also a simulator software.