Hey guys it me Marco from Gadget Experts, and today was an exciting day for all apple fans and tech heads. They unveiled the iPad, which is the rumored tablet, but now set in stone.
Now before we get into the specs lets talk about pricing and when it is going to be released.
The pricing is
Wifi only: 16 gb is 499 32 gb 599 64 gb is 699
Wifi and 3G: 16 gb is 629 32 gb is 729 64 gb is 829
The wifi only will be coming out March and the 3G and wifi will coming out in April.
The screen
The iPad has a nice 9.7 inch led backlit IPS which is a type of screen which makes it viewable from a side view instead of a straight look. With the IPS screen you have a wide viewing angle of 178 degrees!
The size of the iPad is just amazing, one half of an inch, super thin but still a nice 9.7 inch screen. The screen itself is capacitive and multi touch, the same found on the iPhone, and iPod touch, but even better.
The Keyboard
The built in keyboard looks amazing, with the portrait and also landscape mode, the same setup as a laptop keyboard, you can also buy a physical keyboard and stand and use it like that.
A Few Specs
When you get the iPad, it has a amazing 10 hour battery life! Wifi, and 3g is optional! But we will talk about 3g and wifi a little later!
The A4 Chip
The A4 chip inside iPad was custom-designed by Apple engineers to be extremely powerful, and yet extremely power efficient. The A4 chip is running at 1.0 ghz
Also the iPad has a 30 pin dock connector!
Safari
With the iPad`s screen size, internet browsing is amazing, 9.7 inches of screen to use, pages look very sharp and vibrant when you load them up.
Email
You can See and touch your email in ways you never could before. In landscape, you get a split-screen view, showing both an opened email and the messages in your Inbox. This is a new way to manage your email, and a very efficient way also.
Photos
Photos on this thing is sweet, you have a nice way to look at you photos, when you open up photos, you get this new interface. Albums are displayed with stacked photos, and use the pinch to open the album and all your photos are displayed, this whole process is done instantly, and just works the way you want it to.
Videos and Youtube
Watching videos on this thing is great, again with the nice screen size, you will not be disappointed, videos will played on a nice resolution 1024 by 768, and you can easily switch from full screen to widescreen with the double tap that you use on the iPod Touch and iPhone. With the YouTube video playback, it will be amazing, with its high-resolution display, the latest YouTube HD videos will look amazing on iPad.
iPod
With the iPad, browsing and listening to your music is a breeze. All your music is at you finger tips, just tap on the song and the song starts playing, you have a choice of listening to the music with the built in powerful speaker or plug in your wired headset, and if you like you can use a Bluetooth wireless headset as well.
iTunes Store
iTunes store has really evolved over the years, and now with the iPad, it is even better. you can browse and buy music, TV shows, podcasts — or buy and rent movies — wirelessly, right from your iPad. There are thousands of movies and tv shows both in HD and SD, and along with podcasts and millions of songs that you can buy right their from your iPad.
App Store
You love it or you hate it. The iPad will run almost 140,000 apps from the App Store. Everything from games to business apps, and more. And new apps that have been designed just for iPad are highlighted, so you can easily find the ones that take full advantage of its features. Just tap the App Store icon on the screen and you’ll be able to browse, buy, and download apps wirelessly, right to the iPad.
iBooks
iBooks is the new app from apple, that will let you buy books online, it’s the new way to read and buy books right their from your iPad. The iBook store is built in to iBooks, the online store that will let you buy books online.
Maps
Apple has perfected the Maps on iPad, now you can see great satellite and street view images on your iPad. You type in something and maps will find it right away.
Notes
You will never use notes the way you used to. With the large keyboard, you can type longer notes, and In landscape mode, you also get a list of all of your notes on the side.
Calendar
iPad makes it easy to keep on schedule by displaying Day, Week, Month or List views of your calendar. That way, you can see an overview of a whole month, or the details of a single day. iPad will even show multiple calendars at once, so you can manage work and family calendars at the same time.
Contacts
The contacts app looks amazing, it took a nice redesign and now has a book style if you want, flip through your contacts, it’s a very nice design change in the app.
Home screen
The Home Screen gives you one-tap access to everything on iPad. You can also customize your Home Screen by adding your favorite apps and websites, or using your own photos for the background. And you can move apps around to arrange them in any order you want.
Spotlight search
potlight Search allows you to search across iPad, and all of its built-in apps. Including Mail, Contacts, Calendar, iPod, and Notes. It’ll even search apps you’ve downloaded from the App Store. So no matter what you’re looking for, it’s never more than a few taps away.
The iPad looks like a great device, and very affordable to be an apple product, it has a lot of upsides, but there are a few down sides.
- No multitasking. This may not be a big issue to some people, but if they want it to be a business device they have to put that in, the same goes to the iPhone and iPod touch.
- No camera, people were expecting an isight on the top front of the device, but no camera at all.
That about raps it all for the recap of the iPad.
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