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