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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Apple’s big reveal: it’s called the iPad
Ending months, if not years, of speculation, today Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s mystery product. It’s called the iPad and many of the rumors about what it is were right on target.
In form and function, it looks like a large iPod Touch. It has a touchscreen, a single button at the bottom and an aluminum back. It can be used to browse the Web, pull up Google Maps and browse photos, all the things you’d expect to do on an Internet-connected iPod Touch or iPhone. It has an on-screen virtual keyboard like those products, but because of the size of the screen, it’s much closer in size to an actual keyboard.
It includes iTunes for downloading music, TV shows and movies and can apparently play YouTube videos in HD quality. It has a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen, is half an inch thick and will come in 16-Gigabyte, 32 GB and 64 GB sizes. It runs on a 1-GHz processor, which is not extremely fast for a laptop, but is probably swift for something modeled on a cell phone or mobile media player.
It’ll of course have apps — some demonstrated today included video games, a New York Times app and an app called “Brushes” for fingertip painting/drawing, like the app currently available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The device is available in three Wi-Fi versions and three versions that can access 3G wireless networks. The prices start at $499 for Wi-Fi only, up to $829 for a 64-Gigabyte version with 3G. 3G fees will apply: AT&T will over unlimited access for $30 a month or 250 megabytes a month for $15 on the 3G versions of the iPad. No two-year contract will be required.
Apple’s iPad page is available for more details and videos.
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Live Chat: Apple’s big tablet day and more
Today at 1 p.m. CST, we’ll be discussing Apple’s “New creation” announcement, as well as any other news revealed at the company’s San Francisco event.
Though there’s no official video stream, we’ll be following the news on Engadget, Macworld and NPR, which will all be live-blogging the event when it starts at noon CST. Come join us right after to discuss.
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