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"After literally years of speculation, Apple's tablet is here and it's called the iPad. It's available from March (see below).\r\n\r\nAnalysis can come later but for now here's everything that was announced at today's Apple event.\r\n\r\n\tThe iPad is a 9.7&amp;quot; touch screen tablet device and is designed to fill the gap between MacBook and iPhone\r\n\tTo look at, it's a large iPod Touch/iPhone. As with the iPhone it contains an accelerometer so that you can rotate it to switch between portrait and landscape modes.\r\n\tSteve Jobs calls it &amp;quot;Our most advanced technology in a magical &amp;amp;amp; revolutionary device at an unbelievable price&amp;quot;.\u00A0Jonathan Ive says &amp;quot;This defines our vision, our sense of what\u2019s next&amp;quot;.\r\n\r\nSpec \r\n\r\n\t9.7&amp;quot; screen - LCD, not OLED as rumoured.\r\n\tThe screen has IPS (In-Plane Switching) to improve the viewing angle and colour rereproduction when you're not looking at it flat-on.\r\n\t802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. 30-pin connector, speaker, microphone, accelerometer and compass.\r\n\t10 hour battery life (when playing video), 1 month stand-by.\r\n\tSome models come with 3G data as well as WiFi.\r\n\r\nModels, prices and availability\r\n\r\n\t16GB WiFi only: $499\r\n\t32GB WiFI only: $599\r\n\t64GB WiFi only: $699\r\n\t16GB WiFi &amp;amp;amp; 3G: $629\r\n\t32GB WiFi &amp;amp;amp; 3G: $729\r\n\t64GB WiFi &amp;amp;amp; 3G: $829\r\n\tWiFi only versions available from March. 3G versions available from April. You can sign up for preorder notification over at Apple's iPad pages.\r\n\r\nBuilt in apps\r\n\r\n\tIts web browser is billed by Jobs as &amp;quot;The best you've ever had&amp;quot;.\r\n\tPhoto viewer, with map view to see geotagged photos and a slideshow mode.\r\n\tEmail client\r\n\tMusic player much more like iTunes than the standard iPhone music player.\r\n\tMovies play with borders because the screen aspect ratio is closer to 4:3 than 16:9\r\n\tiTunes Store\r\n\tMaps with current location detection.\r\n\tYouTube client\r\n\tAn Address Book that actually looks like... a real address book.\r\n\tCalendar - very much like iCal on OSX.\r\n\tA giant on-screen keyboard takes up almost half the screen, allowing for big, fat buttons supposedly making typing a breeze.\r\n\r\n3rd Party Apps\r\n\r\n\t&amp;quot;Virtually all&amp;quot; iPhone apps can run on it without modifications - either in a small box in the middle of the screen in actual size or 'pixel doubled' to fill the screen by tapping a '2x' icon.\r\n\tExisting apps you've bought for your iPhone/Pod Touch can be synced to the iPad without paying again.\r\n\tA new SDK is released today for developers.\r\n\tiPad-specific apps will be listed as such in the store.\r\n\r\niPad Apps\r\n\r\n\tThe New York Times demonstrated an app that is essentially a reader for the newspaper but with interactive features like being able to play movies embeded in the 'pages'.\r\n\tAn impressive painting app was revealed that allowed users to create artwork with their fingers on screen. So that's that the paint splashes on the event invite were about!\r\n\tEA deomonstrated an version of Need For Speed with great looking 3D graphics and touchscreen controls.\r\n\tMLB.com revealed an app for Baseball fans.\r\n\r\niBooks\r\n\r\n\tApple has launched its own e-book app called iBooks.\r\n\tBooks can be browsed from an on-screen bookshelf and then read fullscreen. Pages can be flipped by touching the screen.\r\n\tAn iBook store is built in featuring books from Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon &amp;amp;amp; Schuster, Macmillan and Hachette book group.\r\n\tiBooks supports the ePub format for e-books.\r\n\r\niWork\r\n\r\n\tA new version of Apple's iWork suite has been created specifically for the iPad. Rather than pay for the complete suite you can buy each iWork app separately for $9.99 each.\r\n\tPages, Keynote and Numbers are all included meaning word processing, presentations and spreadsheets are all possible.\r\n\tKeynote allows presentations to be both viewed and created on the iPad. As the iPad can be connected to a projector it should make for an excellent presentation control device.\r\n\tLikewise, Pages allows both document viewing and creation/editing. Everything has been revised and optimised for the new device.\r\n\tNumbers is, again, fully capable. It can create and edit spreadsheets complete with graphs and the like.\r\n\r\nDesktop sync\r\n\r\n\tAs with an iPhone you can sync the iPad's music, movies, contacts etc with your computer via iTunes.\r\n\r\n3G Data\r\n\r\n\tIf you want to be connected everywhere you can connect some iPad models to a 3G data network. (see device price above).\r\n\tIn the US this is priced at $15 for the first 250MB or $30 for unlimited data.\r\n\tUS 3G is provided by AT&amp;amp;amp;T. There's no contract - you just activate the data connection on your iPad and pay as you go.\r\n\tInternational data deals should be in place by June.\r\n\tThe iPad is unlocked, meaning that you could in theory use another network. The iPad uses GSM Micro SIMs - so any network that uses them will be fine.\r\n\r\nAccessories\r\n\r\n\tNeed to type out a long document or blog post? Just buy yourself the full-size mechanical keyboard that connects via the iPad's dock connector.\r\n\tA case for the device is available that doubles up as a table stand for viewing movies easily.\r\n\r\nSo, what do you think? If you want an iPad make sure you enter our competition to win one right now (unless you're reading this after the closing date, in which case sorry!)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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