Apple iPad: All You Need To Know

In The Previous Post, I've Shown You, What You Could Do With An iPad. Here Is An Handy List Which Will Give You A Better Idea About Apple's iPad.

• The Ipad Is A 9.7″ Touch Screen Tablet Device And Is Designed To Fill The Gap Between Macbook And Iphone


• To 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.


• Steve Jobs Calls It “Our Most Advanced Technology In A Magical & Revolutionary Device At An Unbelievable Price”. Jonathan Ive Says “This Defines Our Vision, Our Sense Of What’s Next”.

Spec

• 9.7″ Screen – LCD, Not OLED As Rumoured.


• The Screen Has IPS (In-Plane Switching) To Improve The Viewing Angle And Colour Rereproduction When You’re Not Looking At It Flat-On.


• 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. 30-Pin Connector, Speaker, Microphone, Accelerometer And Compass.


• 10 Hour Battery Life (When Playing Video), 1 Month Stand-By.


• Some Models Come With 3G Data As Well As Wifi.

Models, Prices And Availability

• 16GB Wifi Only: $499


• 32GB Wifi Only: $599


• 64GB Wifi Only: $699


• 16GB Wifi & 3G: $629


• 32GB Wifi & 3G: $729


• 64GB Wifi & 3G: $829


• Wifi Only Versions Available From March. 3G Versions Available From April. You Can Sign Up For Preorder Notification Over At Apple’s Ipad Pages.

Built In Apps

• Its Web Browser Is Billed By Jobs As “The Best You’ve Ever Had”.


• Photo Viewer, With Map View To See Geotagged Photos And A Slideshow Mode.


• Email Client


• Music Player Much More Like Itunes Than The Standard Iphone Music Player.


• Movies Play With Borders Because The Screen Aspect Ratio Is Closer To 4:3 Than 16:9


• Itunes Store


• Maps With Current Location Detection.


• Youtube Client


• An Address Book That Actually Looks Like… A Real Address Book.


• Calendar – Very Much Like Ical On OSX.


• A Giant On-Screen Keyboard Takes Up Almost Half The Screen, Allowing For Big, Fat Buttons Supposedly Making Typing A Breeze.

3rd Party Apps

• “Virtually All” 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.


• Existing Apps You’ve Bought For Your Iphone/Pod Touch Can Be Synced To The Ipad Without Paying Again.


• A New SDK Is Released Today For Developers.


• Ipad-Specific Apps Will Be Listed As Such In The Store.

Ipad Apps

• The 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’.


• An 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!


• EA Deomonstrated An Version Of Need For Speed With Great Looking 3D Graphics And Touchscreen Controls.


• MLB.Com Revealed An App For Baseball Fans.

Ibooks

• Apple Has Launched Its Own E-Book App Called Ibooks.


• Books Can Be Browsed From An On-Screen Bookshelf And Then Read Fullscreen. Pages Can Be Flipped By Touching The Screen.


• An Ibook Store Is Built In Featuring Books From Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan And Hachette Book Group.


• Ibooks Supports The Epub Format For E-Books.

Iwork

• A 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.


• Pages, Keynote And Numbers Are All Included Meaning Word Processing, Presentations And Spreadsheets Are All Possible.


• Keynote 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.


• Likewise, Pages Allows Both Document Viewing And Creation/Editing. Everything Has Been Revised And Optimised For The New Device.


• Numbers Is, Again, Fully Capable. It Can Create And Edit Spreadsheets Complete With Graphs And The Like.

Desktop Sync

• As With An Iphone You Can Sync The Ipad’s Music, Movies, Contacts Etc With Your Computer Via Itunes.

3G Data

• If You Want To Be Connected Everywhere You Can Connect Some Ipad Models To A 3G Data Network. (See Device Price Above).


• In The US This Is Priced At $15 For The First 250MB Or $30 For Unlimited Data.


• US 3G Is Provided By AT&T. There’s No Contract – You Just Activate The Data Connection On Your Ipad And Pay As You Go.


• International Data Deals Should Be In Place By June.


• The 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.

Accessories

• Need 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.


• A Case For The Device Is Available That Doubles Up As A Table Stand For Viewing Movies Easily.

Hats Off To Martin Bryant (The Next Web)

For This Valuable Info About Apple iPad.