The iPad

Wednesday 27 January 2010 - Filed under General

Ok, so it wasn’t a table, it was the iPad, some kind of mutant iPhone with a built in iTunes store. By the looks of it, it is running the iPhone OS, or at least some kind of version of it. Interesting!

• 1.5 pounds/0.7 kg
• .5″ thin
• 9.7″  IPS display
• full multitouch
• 1GHz Apple A4 chip
• 16-64 GB Flash storage
• Accelerometer
• 10 hrs battery time (Apple hours?)
• One month standby
• iBooks
• Can run almost any iPhone app, either pixel by pixel in the middle of the screen, or pixel doubled in full screen
• Arsenic-free, BFR-free, Mercury-free, PVC-free
• The iWork suite, at $9.99 per app
• Connects to projectors
• Wifi, plus a separate 3G model, unlocked
• Syncs over USB, like the iPhone and iPods
• $29.99 for unlimited data for US users (AT&T)
• Worldwide in 60 days
• International 3G deal by June
• New GSM micro SIM
• Starting at $499
• Keyboard dock (w/ charger)

That’s it.

See the presentation in pictures and notes over at Engadget

Videos will probably be up later tonight or tomorrow.

(Again, photo courtesy of Engadget)

2010-01-27  »  Asgeir