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Apple intros iPad at amazing $499

The Apple iPad will fly off the shelves in March – shipping in 60 days

All the good stuff

  • 1GHz Apple A4 processor (custom)
  • 0.5″ thick
  • 1.5 pounds
  • 9.7″ Capacitive touchscreen
  • 16-64GB of SSD storage
  • 3G available but not in all iPads
  • $14.99 for 250MB, $29.99 for unlimited data on AT&T (no contract)
  • 3G iPads are unlocked, have GSM micro SIMs

Steve Jobs reveals long anticipated iPad

  • Accelerometer, Compass
  • 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1
  • Runs iPhone apps in window or pixel doubling
  • Hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics
  • SDK out today
  • $499 for 16GB base model, $830 for all maxed out
  • Dock with hard keyboard available

All the maybes
* No camera so no video chat
* Limited space — 64GB may be a lot for an iPod, but when you’ve got movies and such, it’ll disappear real fast
* Multitasking?
* No SD or multi-card reader means that’s all the storage you get
* It’s obviously no more customizable than the iPhone

Runs for 10 hours and a month on standby. It looks and handles like a blown up iTouch. At 1 Ghz running the iPhone OS, it is not expected to mutli-task. The US 3G data plans will be $14.95 for 250MB and unlimited $29.95 per month..

From TechCrunch

2 Comments

  1. Christena Kraling

    I know the new ipad looks great and cant wait to get one for the girlfriend. Nice site youve got there.

  2. Ulrike Heaton

    The cpu is called as a little bit more recent model amount however it and the GPU are likely the similar pace since the 3GS. The old Touch with the same CPU and GPU since the 3G was quicker. Besides getting the clock speed turned up greater the Touch has much less software to run because it

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