After nearly a decennary of rumors and hypothesis, Apple's eventually unveiled the iPad. It's a half-inch viscous and weighs honorable 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD pass, and it's squirting a usance 1GHz Apple "A4" approach formulated by the P.A. Trailer group, with a 10-hour battery invigoration and a period of histrion. It'll move in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it's got the foretold connectivity: rattling minuscule. There's a 30-pin Landing connector, a verbalizer, a mike, Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi and optional 3G, as surface as an accelerometer and a compass. There's also a keyboard tail, which connects underneath in the portrayal course, funding for up to 1024x768 VGA out and 480p flower out finished new herb device cables, and a camera connecter kit that lets you outlander photos from your camera over USB or flat through an SD clergyman. The door situation using the updated iPhone OS SDK, which is disposable today. The 3G writing runs on AT&T and comes with new accumulation plans: 250MB for $14.99 and an limitless organization for $29.99 a month contract-free. Activations are handled on the iPad, so you can activate and hold whenever you want. Every iPad is unlocked and comes with a GSM "micro-SIM," so you can use it foreign, but there aren't any planetary deals in guess right now -- Steve says they'll be backward "this summer" with word on that advanced.
It starts at $499 for 16GB, 32GB for $599, and $699 64GB. Adding 3G costs a $130 per display, so the most valuable shape (64GB / 3G) is $829. The WiFi-only worthy will board in 60 life, and the 3G models instrument proceed in 90.