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Steve Jobs has unveiled one of the best kept secrets of Apple. The name of your new “tablet” is iPad, like an iPod but bigger and costs 350 euros cheaper version (the 16GB of memory).The iPad will be distributed within 60 days.
Experts expect to be sold between two and five million iPad in its first year and some analysts expect could generate between 2,800 and 3,500 billion in revenues for Apple.
Steve Jobs has been responsible for starting the presentation to the media. Jobs is presented slides with Apple’s history and announcing that there are now over 140,000 applications for the iPhone.
- Jobs explained that the new ‘tablet’ has touch screen and since it can access the iTunes application portal, which is already adapted to the new ‘gadget’.
- In terms of design, the new iPad is similar to the iPhone or iPod but bigger.
- Action: The iPad is a screen of 9.7 inches, a width of 1.27 cm (half inch) and weighing 680 grams.
- Everyone has an integrated WiFi, a 1GHz Apple A4, and memory capacity of 16 to 64 GB.
- Its battery lasts for ten hours so on and close to a month if kept in standby mode.
- Steve Jobs has disappeared from the scene and other Apple executives are showing ipad possibilities with video games. This is one of the strongest assets of the iPad, no doubt. The graphic capability is exceptional.
- Have iBook, Apple’s new application for books, with its own shop. Jeff Bezos (Amazon’s creator) must be turning in his chair, quite uneasy.
- Another application submitted today: iWorks. A suite of applications like Microsoft Office.
- The iPad has a virtual keyboard touch and with the possibility of inserting it into a housing which incorporates a physical keyboard. In this way it becomes a real desktop.
- The last price is 499 dollars (350 euros) for the cheaper version, the 16GB of memory, 599 (420 euros) for the 32 Gb The ‘full equipe’ will, yes, to $ 829 (570 euros) with 3G, WiFi and 64GB of memory.
- Steve Jobs says it will be distributing units within 60 days. 90 for units with 3G.
