Steve Jobs has unveiled his new creation at the Apple ‘latest creation’ event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The name of the Apple tablet device is ‘iPad‘.
The iPad tablet from apple looks really sweet. The Apple iPad runs the iPhone like OS and supports all the iPhone apps. iPad specs, iPad Pricing and Apple iPad screenshots after the jump.
Apple iPad specs
- Name: iPad
- .5 inches thin, 1.5 pounds
- LED-backlit, IPS Display 9.7 inch
- Full capacitive multitouch
- Processor: 1GHz Apple A4 chip
- Flash Storage: 16GB, 32, 64GB
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- WiFi 802.11n (but we’re also going to have models with 3G.)
- Speaker, Microphone, 30-Pin Connector
- Accelerometer & Compass
- 10 hours of battery life, over a month of standby time.
- iPhone like OS
- iBookStore to ruine Kindle market
- Apps Store for iPad
- iPhone Apps supported (We can also pixel double and run the apps full screen.)
- New SDK for development will be available today.
- iPad Accessories: Dock, keyboard dock, and a case
Apple iPad Price
- iPad pricing starts at $499.
- Data Plans: 250MB of data a month for $14.99, unlimited plan for just $29.99 a month. (AT&T)
WiFi model will be available at retail in 60 days time while the one with WiFi+3G will be available in 90 days from now.
Apple iPad screenshots
Update 2:
iPad Preorders Begin March 12th, 5:30am PST
Update 1:
iPad Launching April 3rd and Pre-orders begin March 12th
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