Denken

On January 27th Apple launched it’s much awaited tablet iPad.It came after one year long speculations.It will be available in market from March(Still I don’t have any idea when iPad would be available in India).Well that night when I was tweeting my timeline was only(almost) with Apple events live tweets and out of the top 10 trending topics there were seven related to iPad and ongoing Apple event.Later I came to know that there were 177,000 tweets in the first hour during the event.

Well Steve Jobs describes it as “Our most advanced technology in a magical & revolutionary device at an unbelievable price”.They says that its 9.7″ touch screen tablet which is here to fill up the gap between Macbook and iPhone.

Let me first discuss about the price.There are 6 models like:

16GB:- $499(wifi) and $629(wifi+3G)

32GB:-$599(wifi) and $729(wifi+3G)

64GB:-$699(wifi) and $829(wifi+3G)

Here are features that you will get in iPad:

• 9.7″ LCD touch screen.
• 10 hours battery life(If you are playing video) and 1 month standby time.
• Bluetooth.
• In built web browser
• Email client.
• You tube client.
• The screen has IPS(in plan switching) which helps to give better visual effects when you are not looking at it as a flat screen.
• Model comes with 3G and Wifi facilities.
• Photo viewer with geotagging and slide show features.
• Inbuilt music player which is more likely to iTunes and also iTunes store.
• Maps,Calender, Address book.
• Movie plays with an aspect ration of 4:3.
• Supports all iPhone applications and also you can synchronize iPhone and iPod with this iPad.
• A paint application.
• iBooks: Apples own ebook application.
• iWork: Too build presentation and spreadsheets etc.
• iPad can also be synchronized with projector and desktop.

Here are few features which are missing in iPad:

• You can not do multitasking.
• iPad does not have any USB port or SD slots.
• No drag and drop of files.
• No flash support.
• No camera which is the most disappointing thing for me because it discards video chat/conferencing and you can’t take pictures and upload it to facebook/flickr.
• Wifi version doesn’t have GPS and 3G is not with full GPS.

Though they says its to fill up the gap between Macbook and iPhone but I don’t see its use if you have both a laptop and a smart phone.

Thanks