Yes ! As promised we are covering the Apple event via live blogging. As you came to know from the previous post, the official name for the tablet is out. iPAD it is !
These are the first announced features and pics of the Apple tablet or iPAD:
- The display is confirmed: 9.7 inches IPS display.
- 0.5 inches thin.
- Weighs 1.5 pounds.
- It is powered by Apple’s own custom silicon chip called, A4.
- The speed of processor is 1 Ghz.
- Comes with three different types of storage: 16, 32 and 64 GB flash storage.
- Connectivity is through Wi-fi, 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR. And yes later Apple will have models of iPAD built with 3G in it.
- Battery life is upto 10 hours.
- Features Accelerometer and Compass.
- It has speaker, microphone and 30-pin dock connector.
- In addition to battery life, it has got a month of standby life !
- It features full capacitive multi-touch.
- UI of the iPAD is totally different from iPhone and OSX.
- It has a photo scrubber bar at the bottom, which is used to flick through the pics.
- It has two pane horizontal view for emails.
- For the starters, it features apps like Youtube, Google Maps, Built-in iTunes store, an address book, a calendar and a giant on-screen keyboard. But it includes lots more than them.
- It can run virtually any third-party apps without modifications. This can be done in 2 ways: With pixel for pixel accuracy in blackbox, or pixel double and run them in full screen.
- A special feature for Facebook app: A tap on the 2x button, and it scales the app to full screen.
- For developers: New SDK is out including iPAD tools.
- It includes an art browser and painting application.
- And Yes, Kindle is still alive but won’t kick. The new e-book reader for iPAD is called iBook. It is built on the ePub format, the most popular open book format in the world.
- It has a new UI for iWork, and includes new version of Keynotes, Pages and Numbers.
And the people from New York times had been invited 3 weeks ago, for a sneak peek:
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