Ringing it at $US500 to $US830, the newly announced 1.5-pound (0.68kg) iPad doesn’t seem to bring much new to the table, despite Apple calling it magical.
Here’s a run down of the specs, prices, details of the iPad. Let me know if you find any of the magic.
Specs
Height: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
Width: 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
Depth: 0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
Weight: 1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model; 1.6 pounds (.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model
Display
9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology with 178-degree viewing angle
Touch has been reengineered for the iPad to make it “extremely precise and responsive”
1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
Capacity
16GB, 32GB, 64GB flash memory
Processor
1 Ghz Apple A4 chip
Sensors
Accelerometer
Ambient light sensor
Battery and Power
Built-in 25Whr rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
Charging via power adaptor or USB to computer system
Input and Output
Dock connector
3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
Built-in speakers
Microphone
SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model only)
Buttons and controls
On off, sleep wake switch
Mute
Volume up and down
Home button
Safari
Photos
Video
YouTube
iPod
iTunes
App Store
iBooks
Maps
Notes
Calendar
Contacts
Home Screen
Spotlight Search
Gaming
The iPad will run “almost all of the apps” designed for the iPhone. You can run any of them in normal size or your can expand them to fill your screen.
Anonymous
January 28, 2010 at 7:43 AM
I think it’s the best of what we expected. Just too bad it runs on the iPhone OS and not more of a standard Mac OS, but hey.
Report PermalinkWiseHacker
January 28, 2010 at 8:47 AM
Actually, the iPhone OS *is* Mac OSX, but has been cut down to size so it fits on the small hardware.
Report Permalinkglennc
January 28, 2010 at 10:25 AM
this hardware aint that small
Report PermalinkDylan Sale
January 28, 2010 at 11:19 AM
No this is a good thing. Having a multitasking OS on a screen that small just doesnt work. You want the device to become the app you are using. Its not like you are going to be ripping dvds, encoding video and playing a game at the same time.
A standard OSX would have just made it as bad as every other windows tablet.
Report Permalinksteve
January 28, 2010 at 8:12 AM
yawn! its an iphone with a big screen. someone put a different os on it and i might be interested. hackers to the rescue
Report PermalinkWiseHacker
January 28, 2010 at 8:46 AM
Having read the specs and seen the concept pictures and seen the price I can only ask: What’s the point?
The iPad is basically an enlarged version of the iPod Touch (which itself is actually a cut down iPhone). At the specified price, why doesn’t one just get a Mac Mini instead?
Also at 10 hours of battery life, it shows that Apple still has not learned anything from the poor battery life of its iPhone.
Report Permalinkglennc
January 28, 2010 at 10:26 AM
the point is the little apple logo, nothing else. this is purely an image device (and it doesn’t even have a camera)
we live in a vain world
Report PermalinkDylan Sale
January 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM
You cant use a mac mini on a bus or train. You cant use one in a coffee shop… The extra screen real estate makes it a lot better for the web and reading. Think of it as a portable web/game console.
If you cant see why this is useful then you have a lack of imagination…
Report PermalinkDarius
January 28, 2010 at 9:19 AM
how the hell are you supposed to carry that?
Report Permalinkgamer cribs
January 28, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Yep lots of hype but I still think its very interesting. I reckon RTS or other strategy games would be great on the platform.
Report PermalinkPaul P
January 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM
Does it support Flash for web browsing? If not, MAXIMUM FAIL.
Report PermalinkWiseHacker
January 28, 2010 at 11:41 AM
Whoa! VERY good point.
Report PermalinkPhuzzy
January 28, 2010 at 1:33 PM
no of course it doesn’t support Flash.. it’s running iPhone OS.. which doesn’t
Report Permalinkps no multitasking either.
Brendan
January 28, 2010 at 11:03 AM
You have to remember this isn’t competing with the iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s competing with tablet PCs, and as such it’s actually pretty decent.
You’d be hard pressed to find a tablet that offers all of these features, with such extended and valued services, at that price; I think this device is going to do pretty well, probably not as well as the iPhone, but it will provide some new competition.
I’d love a tablet PC, but the price is still a bit too much for me. I’ll wait until it comes down a couple of hundred in a year or 2, like the iPhone 3G.
Report Permalinksymolie
January 28, 2010 at 11:30 AM
no magic sighted…
Report Permalinkoverhyped, overpriced, underspecced, underwhelmed.
what is the point?
FAIL, FAIL, FAIL!!!
Mr Waffle
January 28, 2010 at 11:55 AM
The way I imagine using this is like the Padd on Star Trek; it’s a portable information device. You can surf the net on your couch, take it into the bathroom and read a book on the can, watch a movie in bed… it’s a light-use computer that isn’t bound to a table.
Though it seems a bit bigger than I thought it would be. I’d need to hold it I think.
Report PermalinkSteven Bogos
January 28, 2010 at 12:49 PM
So kind of like… a laptop?
Report PermalinkWellThen
January 28, 2010 at 12:31 PM
I think it’s actually not that good looking for an Apple product. Huge black frame around the outside and a 4:3 screen? Why not a widescreen? Couldn’t they have cut down the sides and extended it a bit?
Report PermalinkSteven Bogos
January 28, 2010 at 12:51 PM
Not surprising that apple simply went ‘Hey, nintendo made a huge version of their DS, lets do that for our iPhone!’
Still very dissapointing, tablet PC’s are meh at best, all the pitfalls of a laptop with almost none of it’s advantages. There isn’t a single situation where i would want the iPad over a laptop or an iPhone/psp
Report PermalinkJay
January 29, 2010 at 12:32 AM
I guess they;re thinking it will be a success cause of the iPhone.
Tablets aren’t popular and i don’t see them becoming that so. Laptops are just the easier choice. Perhaps making a TouchScreen MacbookPro is a better choice.
iPhone was luck in a way. I’m no Apple hater AT all. But everyone and critics alike, compare new smartphones and touch screens to the iPhone. “Is this the new iPhone killer”.
There are PLENTY of phones out their better than the iPhone. Better camera some have better OS. Web browsing, but only a few. All of that. But it’s because its APPLE as to why it has had so much success. Apple, although primary a company for Computers and OS – is a company that is known for its iPod and iPhone.
It’s the things like the iPhone and iPod that Apple is known for and where it draws its most success. Its the little things that are going to be popular. MAC will never overtake Windows, much like their iMacs and Macbooks will never become the best sellers. It’s pricing and familiarity that prevent Apple from doing so.
They think this tablet or iPad, will be the next iPhone or iPod. Because both of those devices weren’t relatively popular when released. Goodluck to them, but i believe this will be the one device that isn’t going to be that successful as the rest. It will sell good, but not as good as what they hope.
For the iPhone part – it is a good phone. But there are greater phones out their. Just that, iPhone is the iPhone. The name does it wonders too. But it does have that great touch-screen that not many other phones can match. Apple just leave a lot of tech OUT and thats why they haven’t got the larger share with their OS and hardwares.
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