The Revolutionary 'iPad'

The long awaited new apple device is finally here! When Steve Jobs unveiled the 9.7-inch touchscreen tablet, which looks like a large iPhone, Apple quickly took a hit in the stock market but surprisingly it jumped back up once it was announced the price will start at $499 (16GB version). The iPad is supposed to be a "third category" of devices, a do-everything media gadget that can surf the Web, and play movies and video games. Sort of a hybrid of both the iPhone and a laptop.Fun Facts
The icons are like those on the iPhone, complete with a tray at the bottom, and the iPad runs on the iPhone's operating system. Jobs spent some time showing off some of the iPad's features, including e-mail and web browsing. It will ship with iTunes installed. It's powered by a 1GHz Apple A4 chip, and has 16GB to 64GB of flash storage. It has 10 hours of battery life and over a month of standby power. As said earlier the iPad will start at $499 U.S. for the 16GB version, while a 32GB model will cost $599 and a 64 GB model will cost $799. Versions of the iPad with built in 3G connectivity will cost an extra $130, ranging in price from $629 to $829. Because over 75 million iPhones and iPod touches are around the world, Apple expects a large amount of Apple users to already know how to operate the iPad. Jobs said the iPad will sync with a computer over a USB connection just like an iPod or iPhone.

*Not actually how it looks*

So will the iPad last?
Its hard to tell until I've tried it personally but you have to look at the market they are going for. A device thats the combination of the iPhone and laptop is great but you have to understand maybe people who already have laptops also have some sort of smart phone (whether iPhone or not). Will these people be willing to spend $500 for just a combination of the 2? The idea might be worth more than the actual product because consumers have never warmed to tablet computers, despite many previous attempts by other companies. But I was impressed with the technology that Apple showed off. The iPad has a near life-size touch keyboard, and comes with all the expected features, including a calendar, an address book and maps. We will have to see if Apple can start another trend

Apple has proved they are the head of the pack. The iPod revolutionized mp3s and the iPhone pushed cellphones above and beyond their limits, maybe the iPad will now revolutionize tablets.

Let the jokes begin

Apple isn't making it any easier on themselves by calling the tablet an 'iPad'. I'm not even going to say why because the topic itself is too distrubing to me. I sure hope Steve Jobs come up with a new name for it and I hope he does it soon.