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The ‘tablet’ Apple will sell in Spain in summer without the exclusivity of any telephone operator

The iPad will come to Spain in summer but, unlike what happens with the iPhone, which is only sold under the brand Movistar, no phone operator will have exclusivity. It will counter and all operators to reach an agreement with Apple may link it to your catalog, with flat rate mobile internet as they do now with laptops and other brands.

Despite this lack of exclusivity, Telefonica wants to take advantage of its special trade relationship with Apple, and negotiate an agreement similar to that carried out with Nokia to launch its first netbook, the Booklet 3G, with significant discounts under contract permanence.

The pull media from all products of the apple would mark a great presentation ideal shop Telefonica star the Gran Via, similar to the iPhone in July 2008.

But though still not sold, the iPad is already critical. Consumers and analysts face in numerous blogs to the deficiencies of the new tablet from Apple. In the specialized web pages is called into question the functionality of a 10-inch device which has no USB ports or camera flash that does not play, which lacks GPS, does not have an HDMI output for connection to a TV and does not offer the ability to run more than one program at once.

The expectations were high. And now the days have gone, pre-marketing, to find the defects iPad. The prestigious Wired magazine said in its online version that “what Steve Jobs showed us is, in fact, little more than a giant iPhone. A giant iPhone that makes calls. In Mashable technological guidance states that “it would have been almost impossible for the iPad exorbitant meet the expectations that have surrounded the Internet tablet Apple in the weeks, or months, ago.”

PCWorld recommends not buying a iPad yet so simple. Asks readers to “not be guinea pigs. “There are bugs. Errors are discovered. It is inevitable that a number of complaints when the market start iPad. And it can always happen as with the iPhone. The first batch was sold for $ 600 (432 euros). At 10 weeks, that price had to be reduced by 200 dollars (144 euros). Today, the cheaper iPhone is worth 100 (72 euros).