Apple has announced the iPad to the public for the first time – looking like an oversized iPhone.
A 9.7-inch touchscreen tablet, Apple has basically blown up its mobile phone to a netbook size, but with all the functionality of a Macbook.
There's between 16GB-64GB of flash solid state storage onboard, with over 10 hours of battery life as well.
1GHz Apple A4 chip
Spec-wise, the iPad is packing an accelerometer and compass, with Wi-Fi 802.11n and there's also 3G, which will cost $14.99 for 250MB data $29.99 for unlimited.
International rate should be announced in June.
It's also running a 1GHz Apple A4 chip to power things along, with Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity for audio and peripheral connection.
Despite higher resolution, the iPad can run every iPhone app unmodified right out of the box, by doubling the pixel to run them full screen.
The iPad is 0.5-inches thin and 1.5 pounds, and there's no word on a UK release date as yet.
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healeydave
January 27th 2010
2. @budo
I think your wrong.
Think about when your at home, you can just pick it up off the coffee table and do common stuff like peruse your photo albums or surf the net.
Stuff that doing on your iPhone (as good as it is) is still cumbersome on a 3" screen. The only other alternative to get up and go to your desktop or get the big, noisy, hot laptop on your lap that has a fraction of the battery life and takes ages to boot up!?!??!
At around £300 this is the perfect casual device to have lying around on the coffee table!!!
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budo
January 27th 2010
1. It's a pig. A big stupid iPhone.
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