iPad Another Cool Gadget by Apple

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We can lot of hand carrying devices coming out in the market in the name of E Readers from Amazon, Sony and Barnes and Noble. Amazon Kindle was a real success after many unsuccessful attempts to build a good E-reader. iPad has added a stiff competition to Amazon Kindle and other E-readers including Soney E-reader and B&N Nook.

Apple is likely to transform the way we do everything from reading the newspaper, sending emails, listening music to preparing business presentations.

IPAD OVERVIEW

It can viewed as an oversized iPod touch with a modified interface. Its features include the ability to browse the web, check email,listen to music and edit photos.Apple also launched onary iBookstore for the device which will serve up books from atleast five major publishers.

According to Apple

A magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price Starting at $499.

 

IPAD COMPOSITION

Accordign to Wikipedia

The iPad has a 9.7-inch (25 cm) LED backlit multi-touch display with a pixel resolution of 1024×768, 16 to 64 gigabytes (GB) of flash memory, a 1-gigahertz (GHz) Apple A4 processor, Bluetooth 2.1, and a 30-pin dock connector to sync with iTunes and connect wired accessories.

It has built-in 802.11n to take advantage of the Wi-Fi networks. It also comes with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR to connect to devices like wireless headphones or Wireless Keyboard. A model with 3G is expected soon.

It comes with a choice of 16GB,32GB,64GB of flash storage and battery life of 10 hours.

It also comes in with a headphone jack and builtin microphone.

ACCESSORIES

Popular iPad accessories are iPad keyboard dock that combines a dock for charging iPad with a full size keyboard. There is also iPad case,USB power adapter and iPad Camera connection kit.

COST

Prices range from $499 with 16GB to $829 for top 3G wireless enabled model

SPECS

• 1.5 pounds
• 1GHz
• 10 hours of battery life and month of battery standby.
• Speaker
• Microphone
• Accelerometer
• Compass
• Headphone jack
• 16 to 64GB of flash storage
• Bluetooth

Softwares

iPad will run only softwares downloaded from Apple App Store. It will run almost all third party applications that run on iPhone. iPad comes with the following applications:

• Safari
• Mail
• Calendar
• YouTube
• Video
• iTune Store
• App Store
• Maps
• Spotlight
• iBooks (display books from iBookStore)

Features Missing

• Mutlitasking
• USB port
• SD slot
• Camera
• Flash