The Apple iPad

[Vidboy10]

After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple's finally unveiled the iPad. It's a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it's running a custom 1GHz Apple "A4" chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It'll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it's got the expected connectivity: very little. There's a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, and 802.11n WiFi, as well as an accelerometer and a compass. As expected, it can run iPhone apps -- either pixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen -- but developers can also target the new screen size using the updated iPhone OS SDK, which is available today.

Apple says there's room for a third device between the smartphone and the laptop, and that it has to be better at tasks like browsing, email, photos, e-books, and videos than both -- netbooks, says Steve, "aren't better at anything." It looks just like the leak we saw, with a large touchscreen keyboard that Steve says is "a dream to type on," and an interface that's very reminiscent of the iPhone, although it's significantly expanded and altered. The built-in apps are much more Mac-like than iPhone-like, with versions of iPhoto and iTunes that look like touch-oriented versions of their desktop counterparts. There's also some built-in location services that lets the Map app auto-locate, and the iTunes store is built-in for previewing and buying media.

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[Urza]

599 US hours of demos.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

Seems like a great device to internet on if you quickly want to check something. Like an iPhone, but bigger. The thing is, it'll be really expensive...

 

[dinofan01]

To me its just a giant iphone. Not what I was hoping for.

 

[RupeeClock]

Is Steve Jobs an idiot?
You don't build a device like that and only have it run iPhone apps, you install Mac OSX, surely.

 

[Thoob]

Just a huge iPod touch to me.... BUT WHAT'S THE PRICE! You'll have to wait for ages for big Steve to finsh these damn demos!

 

[nando]

To me its just a giant iphone. Not what I was hoping for.

if it made phone calls it would be a giant iphone. but alas, it's not even that.

i was hoping to something i could draw and paint on with pressure and tilt sensitivity... but o well

 

[Master Mo]

If it is not a substitute for a "normal" Notebook I think this is not a good idea...

I think it is smart, that they`ll market this as a netbook-like device but I never understood, who would like to have a netbook at all, next to a normal Notebook and a phone (which nowadays all have internet-capabilities)!

 

[Urza]

499USD

HOOOOOOOOOOLYYYYYYY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

 

[Vidboy10]

 

[Urza]

90 days is a long fucking time though

 

[Raki]

If it is not a substitute for a "normal" Notebook I think this is not a good idea...

I think it is smart, that they`ll market this as a netbook-like device but I never understood, who would like to have a netbook at all, next to a normal Notebook and a phone (which nowadays all have internet-capabilities)!

netbooks are bought because they have a normal desktop OS with all it's possibilties in a small lightweight package. also it runs for a long time on battery (even longer than this iShit)

Now apple released a scaled up iPhone with really bad battery life, no good OS and being expensive as hell.

 

[Urza]

Now apple released a scaled up iPhone with really bad battery life, no good OS and being expensive as hell.

In an amazing form factor with 10" capacitive touchscreen and IPS panel underneath.

Just because it runs similar software doesn't make it comparable to a very different device. Potential usage is completely different.

 

[updowners]

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[Placeholder]

If those prices are correct, that's a LOT cheaper than I was expecting.

 

[Thoob]

If those prices are correct, that's a LOT cheaper than I was expecting.

Ah, but remember for Apple $499 = £499, not £309 like it should be at current dollar/pound rates.

 

[Egonny]

And yet 2/3 of all the people complaining will end up buying one.

 

[Chanser]

Expect the big queues appearing at Apple stores.

Spoiler

 

[nitrostemp]

its just a macbook with a touch screen

 

[Satangel]

And yet 2/3 of all the people complaining will end up buying one.

I won't. Too expensive and I'm sure better and cheaper products are going to come out from another brand.
I haven't bought an iPod, I bought the Creative Zen, and boy, am I glad I did that.
Gonna be the same with the iPhone, I'm just holding out till a real killer appears (with all the functions I want) and then I will buy that.