Steve Jobs unveiled it by his own hands.

The Apple iPad has the following Specifications:

Dimensions:

• Height – 9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
• Width – 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
• Depth – 0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
• Weight – 1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model, 1.6 pounds (.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G mode
• Screen: 9.7-inch LCD screen
• Resolution: 1024×768 pixels

Battery Backup:

• 10 hrs on full usage
• 1 month on standby

Location services:

• Wi-Fi
• Digital compass
• Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
• Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)

Hardware:

• Chip – 1 GHz Apple A4 chip. They went in-house instead of going to Intel.
• Memory – Three models with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB solid state hard drives.

Features:

Videos: The large, high-resolution screen makes iPad perfect for watching any kind of video: from HD movies and TV shows to podcasts and music video.

Images: Th Albums can be seen as a stack and one tap opens up the stack to show all the pictures.

iPod App: With the iPod app, all your music is literally at your fingertips. Browse by album, song, artist, or genre with a simple flick. To play a song, just tap it. iPad even displays album art at full size. Listen to your music with the powerful built-in speaker or with wired or Bluetooth wireless headphones.

iTunes: A tap of the iTunes store icon lets you browse and buy music, TV shows, and podcasts — or buy and rent movies — wirelessly, right from your iPad

App store: iPad runs almost 140,000 apps from the App Store. where you ca find Gaming apps also.

iBooks: It is a new native application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that allows you to browse, download and read e-books given presently by Penguin, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillian and Hachette and also McGraw-Hill.

Maps: See maps on the go with the help of the 3G version, where we can get the GPS facility whereas in the basic Wifi enabled piece we cannot enjoy  the GPS facility.

Notes: Te massive screen makes it easy to jot down notes even in a class. Its the same as seen in the iPhone and the iTouch

Spotlight Search: helps you search each and everything present on the iPad in just one go.

Pricing:

$499: 16 GB, Wi-Fi only
$599: 32 GB, Wi-Fi only
$629: 16 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
$699: 64 GB, Wi-Fi only
$729: 32 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G
$829: 64 GB, Wi-Fi and 3G

There was a lot of Expectations form the device, but it let us down very badly. Lets see where the iPad went horribly wrong.

No Multi Tasking:

This device which is supposed to be a gadget built to fill in the gap between a smart phone and a Mac, does not support multi tasking, then how in the world can they say that it is something near to a laptop. Even a basic Smart phone supports Multi tasking. This is the major let down by apple they just copied the Features of the iPhone and elongated it into the iPad.

The least apple could have done is including Multi tasking into the iPad, to make it something worth giving a try.

The Design:

What can be told about the design, it is just a copy of Apple iPhone minus the curves. The Design is just taken from the iPhone and put into the iPad it is just an Elongated thinner version of the iPhone.

Apple could have done much better than just making it a taller brother of the iPhone, with the same central key and the Sleep buton on the top.

Does not Support Flash:

This is another disappointing feature, the iPad does not support Flash and this is the same taken from the iPhone, insted of correcting and including Flash Apple has just made it more worse by  not including Flash atleast for the iPad.

This means that we cannot have Flash based games and the Flash based websites cannot be viewed to their full capacity.

No USB Slot:

There are no USB slots included in the iPad, which also adds to the misery of using this Tablet, we cannot transfer stuff from other computers easy and fast. The only thing which we can do is use this tablet as a Netbook and god knows why Steve made the statement that this is a device which will fill in the gap between Smartphone and Laptops, and it is just another Net book like the many other devices we can find out there.

No Camera:

There is neither a camera, the feature available in the iPhone is also absent in this.

The Same Apps as iPhone:

The iPad supports the same Apps as that of the iPhone, without any Flash even the Apps which support Flash cannot be used in this. The App developers are left helpless due to this and we have to suffer with the same 3rd party apps available in the App store.

No Full GPS:

The Wi-Fi-only versions flat out have no GPS support whatsoever. The basic versions have to compensate of GPS. The 3G versions have Assisted GPS, which makes use of the cellular connection to help pinpoint your location.

No SD Slot:

The absense of an SD slot makes the iPad memory very costly, with 15$ for 250 MB we have to shell out a lot of money to get to the higher end version of the iPad.

The Pricing is based on the memory:

For a Tablet i think this is just a lame thing to do, by placing the pricing based on the memory and that too by  giving 250 MB for 15$ is such a shame.

Overall looking at the Device we can say that, iPad is not living up to its expectations. There were way too high expectations on the device and it has got nothing near it.

“We can say that iPad is just and Elongated iTouch”

Apple has announced a Media event to release its products in its typical and trademark manner, hope we can see Steve Jobs again in his Blue jeans and Black tee, and bring out another Gadget of the decade for the next 10 yrs.

As read in Appleinsider.com

“Apple has reportedly scheduled a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Tuesday Jan. 26, 2010, for a major product announcement.”

The expected announcements for the 2010 Media event are:

• The most anticipated Apple Tablet.
• The subscription plan for video content on iTunes.
• The release of the new Gen iPhone with 4G.
• The upgrade of the iPhone camera to a much needed 5Mp along with a much needed Flash.
• Full Screen Versions of the Apps available on iTunes for a January Demo.

“Apple reportedly wanted software to scale beyond the 320×480 pixel size of the current iPhone and iPod touch screen, but said that applications that can accommodate the larger screen size will run “just fine” on the new device” (Source: Apple insider.com)

So be ready for the Apple Media event and keep an Eye in this space for more updates related the the Event.

Now coming to the topic the real image is what i think has been leaked, the rumors about the Tablet getting Ripe and the release dates being discussed actively around the web.

All this commotion about the Tablet makes me think about the popularity of Apple, whatever they do becomes news and it is bought in the masses.

These are the images courtesy gizmodo.com, which i could share here with you.

Plz dont ask why there is a Nokia E series Phone beside the Apple Tablet, i a also as clueless as you about this.

The Tablet from Apple is expected to be released in the holiday season.

The Apple Tablet which is said to be released in two editions:

• Educational Edition
• Webcam Edition

The Features of the Tablet:

Screen Size: 10 inches

Internet: Same as iPhone/iTouch

Hardware: Looks like an expanded iPhone/iTouch, it resembles the iPhone and iTouch which are expanded.

Release Date: Around the holiday season.

Price: $700 – $800