iPad

January 27th, 2010 | Posted in: technology

It’s official: The iPad is coming our way! Apple has just revealed the long awaited device. As you can see it is a big iPhone, which according to Apple will fill the gap between the iPhone and the MacBook.
Browsing, email, photos, e-books, and videos are the main functions it’ll do better than an iPhone and with a lot more apps on the way it sure looks promising. Especially as a gaming device and an e-reader I think it’ll be very successful. I think the biggest news for Apple is that they are introducing the iBook-store. Just as iTunes and the App Store this will be a very fruitful business for them.

In the US it will be available together with a subscription from AT&T for all the mobile browsing. With prices starting at $499,- for a basic version up to $829,- for the full swing 64gig-3G version.
Besides all the technological coolness you just have to agree with me that Apple has once again delivered a market changing and massively good looking device. Well done Steve!

Thanks to Engadget for the updates and images!

4 COMMENTS on “iPad”

  1. 1 Reynaldo Caacbay said at 11:13 pm on January 27th, 2010:

    Subtielman! How’s it going? Nice posts! I was so over excited about Apple revealing the iPad, that I probably expectated too much…The design looks good, but unfortunatly the iPad has no built in camera?! Ergo: No Skype, no augmented reality and still no flash. Think I have to wait for the 2.0 version.

  2. 2 subtielman said at 5:23 pm on January 28th, 2010:

    So true. In all the exitement you tend to loose focus a little on reality! :) Great machine but a camera for conference calls and augmented reality would have been great indeed. Let’s wait for 2.0. I hope they’ll fix the flash issue shortly though. Let’s wait and see!

  3. 3 Shelley Schiesher said at 9:46 am on January 29th, 2010:

    Alot of bloggers aren’t too pleased with this new iPad.There was just 2 much hoopla regarding it and lots of people got turned off.Thing is, I can actually see some of the awesome potential uses of the device. Third-party apps for playing music, games, papers and magazine and FFS books, all kinds of good stuff, but IMHO they just didn’t really sell it very well (excluding the books). It looks kinda unfinished

  4. 4 subtielman said at 5:11 pm on January 29th, 2010:

    I agree with you on that one, but the beauty is that Apple doesn’t create this themselves. It’s the people around it who do. It’s a shame though Apple doesn’t do anything with all the free advice floating around. Missed opportunity…