[ Updated: Read our full iPad Review ] So it’s a tablet PC and Steve Jobs calls it the iPad. Think 6 times the size of the iPod Touch. Kinda funny name though. What say you?
The Apple iPad specs:
9.7″ display screen @ 1024×768 pixels
16Gb to 64GB Flash Drive
1GHz Apple A4 Chip
Bluetooth 2.1
WiFi 802.11n
3G optional (uses new micro-SIM)
10 hours battery life
This device is really thin at 0.5″ or 13.4mm. Weighs just 1.5lbs too. The device is basically an enlarged iPhone with more processing power so they’re able to add more features like iBook, iWorks, and better browsing and gaming experience.
So that’s why they bought that PA Semiconductor back in 2008. That could have been their ticket to the 1GHz Apple A4 Chip (Qualcomm is also doing the SnapDragon 1GHz which now powers the Google Nexus One).
The iPad can run all iPhone Apps out of the box, although full screen will kinda be pixelated due to pixel-doubling. Price starts at $499. Twice the price of an iPod Touch. Not bad!
iPad WiFi 16GB: $499
iPad WiFi 32GB: $599
iPad WiFi 64GB: $699
iPad WiFi+3G 16GB: $629
iPad WiFi+3G 16GB: $729
iPad WiFi+3G 16GB: $829
We’ll have to wait 60 days more for this to be available worldwide and 90 days for the 3G model.
Then again the name iPad really does smell. I fear Steve will rename the iPod Touch as the iPad Mini. *heh*
So, who’s buying one?
[ Updated: Read our full iPad Review ]
#1 Maybe the real “iSlate” is still under development?
#2 or maybe the “ipad” is the first stepping stone to become “islate”?
Let us see how apple evolve this kind of technology. Maybe they have a plan?
Btw, please count me in to those numbers who will “NOT” buy this “ipad”
IBM started with the Pad names, remember their laptops, “ThinkPad”. Sa game console, Nintendo Wii, pero naging mabenta. Wala siguro sa pangalan yan.
What the hell? I love I-pad. I love its features and I believe APPLE will work on adjusting its specs just like what they did on their recent products. I also don’t compare its features on a laptop… so fuck this. I’m buying it. Maybe you’re just poor? hahaha
@JESUS H CHRIST
“Maybe you’re just poor?”
just keep telling yourself that bub
i tot iPad was just a coined word just for fun…i watched it way back then in the madtv…now it’s a tech stuff! hahha…brilliant steve jobs!
anyway, im gonna earn money for this…i’ll surely get one for my self…i wanna have the one with 3g and wifi…excited.
I’m waiting for it to have flash and a front camera perhaps and GPS
http://sliceofme.tumblr.com/post/361503994/is-ipad-worth-it
I’m just waiting for it to have a camera and flash in safari
I just have bought my ipod touch 3rd generation and the first thing that came into my mind is, i wish the screen is bigger. And that wish came true. Welcome to the woeld ipad!
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I just have bought my ipod touch 3rd generation and the first thing that came into my mind is, i wish the screen is bigger. And that wish came true. Welcome to the woeld ipad!
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tnx for this article. I wud definitely gonna buy this product! I renamed my iphone 3g as “ipad 3g” hekhek! Cant wait!
Twitter: webgeekph
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i hope this ipad thing here can have any application to turn pdf to ebooks or any…..
just when we thought it was gonna be called the “islate” since the domain name was reserved, they came out with ipad instead…
ipad is soo expensive!!
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apples products are definitely geared towards applications sales and not on the hardware itself. so what applications best bring it off the ground to revenue-haven?
This is a lot better than Amazon’s Kindle. The comparison is not between ipod and ipad, but rather ipad and kindle. If you love to read or watch video on the run,,, this one is for you…
I wonder when will this be available dito sa Philippines?
i really…really…really… like this!! “ipad”=/
i thought ipad ay isa lang gadget na hindi ganon katindi ng pagkagawa. have one if the price is not like the iphone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! frustrating iphone to filipino users.
shit it has no camera pero mganda nman
uh, jun, no the comparison is not between the ipad and the kindle. The kindle has a specific purpose and it achieves it very very well. The ipad on the other hand CAN be an e-reader but its much much more than that.
Only real techies know that you can’t compare the two and only real techies will go out and buy both.
end of discussion.
fieldsheer, the ipad is an e-book reader but offers more than other e-book readers out there.
check this http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=32201&tag=nl.e539
I can’t believe you said the comparison is not between ipad and kindle, if you just type “ipad vs…” in any search engine, you would be surprise that amazon’s kindle would always be mentioned. It’s because the real techies think that the closest competitors are ipad and kindle (though there’s about a dozen more gadget ipad is being compared too.)
uh jun, if you read my post i said “The ipad on the other hand CAN be an e-reader but its much much more than that. .”
but you’re right, lets do a search just like you said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/good-news-amazon-the-ipad-didnt-hurt-you-much-2010-1
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358525,00.asp
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/the-ipad-is-not-a-kindle-killer-blame-the-display
http://www.openculture.com/2010/02/10_reasons_ipad_will_not_kill_kindle.html
If you’re still not convinced try this as well,
http://www.getaclue.com
wait for Microsoft to come up with their own version, definitely would be a seller… hehehe
Apple’s product are avant garde but when it comes to marketability and after sales. don’t expect too much… what really matters is the flexibility of a product… adaptability is the key not technology… technology is just a by-product of adaptability
Was looking forward to use this as a GPS device and music player at the same time, or reading books and listening at the same time.
Not happening