Tag archive: Apple Tablet

Now that Apple had laid bare its plans for the ultimate tablet PC, competing offerings from HP, Lenovo, Archos and a host of other PC manufacturers look a little, well, drab. That’s par for the course for an Apple announcement, but one standout product doesn’t have to spell disaster for the rest of the bunch. The iPad could be the best news out there for tablet PCs , putting them collectively in the spotlight that has eluded them for so long.… Read More

When Steve Jobs plopped down on a carefully-placed chair to show off the new iPad’s “Internet in your hands” Web surfing capabilities on Wednesday, a white elephant barged onto stage with him very quickly. A large chunk of the New York Times’ site showed up as a blue brick plastered in question marks – a sign iPhone users will immediately recognize as the placeholder for missing Flash content. Whoops. The iPad doesn’t support one of the most… Read More

It plays music. It plays video. It surfs the Web. And with the iBooks app, backed by five major publishers, you can read books on it, too. Will Apple’s iPad make standalone e-readers like the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and Barnes & Noble Nook obsolete? No. But just as do-it-all smartphones that play music have nibbled away at the market for standalone MP3 players, you had better believe the iPad will thin out the e-reader market.

Apple officially unveiled the iPad yesterday in one of its traditional ‘show and tell” conferences. Tech reporters, Apple fanatics and industry analysts got to experience a brief hands on with the new iPad tablet—demonstrating its speedy custom-designed Apple 1GHz processor (the A4) and the amazing apps that reside under its 1,024-by-768, 9.7-inch LED touch screen. The general consensus among handlers of the new Apple device was that this… Read More

Given that Apple’s new iPad tablet computer runs nearly all of the iPhone’s 140,000 apps (over 20% of which are video games), plus can power even more advanced 3D graphical experiences as well as enhanced versions of these titles and first-run platform exclusives, let’s be honest. The question we should be asking isn’t whether or not the iPad will make a decent gaming device, but rather just how long it’s going to take for it to capture… Read More

If the three secrets to success in real estate are location, location, location, then the three secrets to success in the e-readers are books, books, books. Apple seems to have figured that out from Amazon, but until James Patterson starts coming directly to Steve Jobs with manuscripts, collecting books that people actually want to read means greasing the wheels with publishers. For the device’s launch, Apple managed to put together agreements… Read More

With analysts and pundits alike estimating that the rumored Apple tablet would fall in the stratospheric $800 to $1,000 price range prior to launch, the $499 figure Apple slapped on screen at the unveiling certainly dropped some jaws. In fact, it looked downright reasonable for Apple. But as we learned when Apple sketched out the details, that’s only for the humble 16GB version with no 3G. The real table of prices gets quite a bit more… Read More

At first glance, Apple’s new iPad tablet PC appears to do it all, with a host of key multimedia features that includes: eBook and eReader capabilities Rich web browsing, streaming media and e-mail performance Music, movie and photo playback Downloadable apps – including exclusive first-run originals and enhanced iPhone offerings Word processing, spreadsheet and slideshow functionality Calendar, contact and data syncing Multi-touch computing

In case you missed Apple’s iPad tablet announcement, it was quite the whirlwind. There’s a lot to digest, so for those of you who don’t feel like skimming through six different live blogs to get the gist, we’ve got the Clif Notes. Here are five of the most exciting features we think the new Apple iPad brings to market. App Store compatibility Apple knows that an App Store with 140,000 touch-optimized apps and counting is the absolute best card… Read More

Apple’s expertise is in creating elite products that provide a certain sex appeal to the public—hence their vast success, even in a recession. So it was no surprise when the company unveiled its mysterious Apple tablet, now officially known as the iPad, at an elite gathering today (weeks after the Consumer Electronics Show). Apple didn’t want just any old tech-junky getting his/her fingerprint smudges all over the iPad’s 9.7-inch 1,024 by… Read More

“Great – it’s an oversized iPod Touch that also displays eBooks and runs more robust productivity applications.” Stop us if you think these impressions are off. Because despite its welcome array of enhancements – a user-intuitive, iTunes-like online bookstore and reading app known as iBooks; greater screen real estate thanks to a 9.7-inch high-def display; beefier graphics and processing power courtesy of the 1GHz A4 chip; and a pending suite… Read More

Steve Jobs joked today about the rumored iPad price of $999—you know, that pesky sweet spot that allows a device to be called “under $1000.” Well in true Apple-fashion, Jobs announced there are different configurations of this device—providing the public with a range of prices as well, with the iPad starting at $499. The 16GB version is retailing for $499, the 32GB is retailing for $599, and the 64GB version will be retailing for $699—all of… Read More