Buy iPad for the best and Cheapest Price
Here at Buy iPad we are banging the drum for the just announced jewel in the Apple crown - the Apple iPad. We are going to tell you where to get your iPad for the cheapest possible price, where to find them when they are running out of stock, what stores have them in stock, and what to do with it once you've bought it. We are going to be your one stop shop for everything to do with iPads.
The iPad tablet was announced today, the 27th of January 2010 and is absolutely going to revolutionise how we work on the go, interface with our devices, play games, read books and communicate. The potential of the interface alone is enormous and once new roms, os updates, iPad cracks and hacks materialise we think we'll see some serious evolution in our crusade to make the ultimate 2d interface between man and content.
iPad Dimensions
The iPad tablets main feature is the 9.7-inch, full capacitive multi-touch IPS display, in total it weighs 1.5 pounds and measures 0.5 inches thick "thinner and lighter than any netbook," according to Jobs.
iPad Prices and Models
The cheapest price is likely to be around $499 far lower than the early $1,000 projections of many analysts. The 16-, 32-, and 64-GB devices run $499, $599, $699 with an upgrade option of $130 for 3G capability. The device will begin shipping in March.
iPad Technical Specification
Apple went in-house for the chipset creating a 1-GHz Apple A4, contrary to rumors that the device would be powered by an Intel or Samsung chip. There are 3 flavours of the tablet: 16-, 32, and 64GB. It features built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, an accelerometer, company, speaker, and microphone.
iTunes store has built-in support and the music player can also handle video, of course these are aither via iTunes or YouTube and YouTube HD.
The iPad has a built-in iTunes store, for music playback. Itcan also do video, naturally, either via iTunes for movies and TV shows, or via third-party apps like YouTube and YouTube HD. Sadly the iPad only syncs via iTunes to Macs and PC via USB which frankly is a joke. One day Apple will realise drag and drop to file system beats their bloated and frankly appaling iTunes application.
Jobs told the launch crowd that the device gets 10 hours of battery life which he backed up by saying "I can take a flight from San Francisco to Tokyo and watch video the whole time". Impressive. It can also go a month on standby.
Apple is offering two 3G data plans for the device: $14.99 a month for 250-MB or $29.99 for unlimited data. "Data plans usually cost about $60 a month," Jobs told the crowd.
iPad Games
Mark Hickey from video game publisher Gameloft showcased their brand new first person shooter for the device called Nova. It's rumoured to be entirely movement and touch controlled.
EA showed off their brilliant driving game "Need for Speed: Shift", Travis Boatman the EA spokesman said:
"Building for the iPad is like holding an HD display up to your face".
The New York Times goes Tablet Friendly
Martin Nisenholtz promised to deliver "something special for the iPad." The prestige New York paper's layout on the device mimics a standard newspaper. "We think we've captured the essence of reading the newspaper," he excitedly uttered. "A superior experience in a native application." The application also lets users play video, making newspaper reading a multi-media experience. This really could take news papers back out to the populous and maybe give Rupert Murdoch something to be cheerful about again.
Steve Sprang the Apple delveloper gave us Brushes which us iPhone owners will be familiar with. In iPad form, the application takes advantage of the device's significantly increased real-estate, offering a deep artistic canvas experience. The app, according to Sprang, will be available when the iPad launches.
E-book Readers
"Amazon has done a great job of pioneering [e-readers]," Jobs told the world. "We're going to stand on their shoulders for this." The new e-book reader for the iPad is titled, fittingly enough, iBooks. Apple has joined forces with a whole bunch of the biggest publishers, including Macmillan, Harper-Collings, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and the Hachette Book Group to ensure a huge amount of content is available for the device's online book store called the iBookStore.
The iPad is simply going to destroy the Amazon Kindle. Titles are displayed in full color for one thing and the screens high detail animation lets readers flip rapidly through the pages of their book. You can change the font and pretty much every ePub format is supported which is great news.
For more business-minded users Apple has developed a special iPad version of iWork, making it possible to create and view spreadsheets on the device. The device can also view slides in Keynote and PDF files via Adobe Acrobat. iWork applications will run $9.99 a piece and will be compatible with Macs and projectors.
Apple is also offering a number of accessories for the device, including two docks. The first is a picture dock, which lets the device stand upright for video and image viewing. The other has a built-in keyboard, transforming the iPad into a more fully functioning netbook of sorts. Apple's case also lets the device stand upright.
Martin Nisenholtz from The New York Times took the stage to show off "something special for the iPad." The paper's layout on the device mimics a standard newspaper. "We think we've captured the essence of reading the newspaper," he told the crowd. "A superior experience in a native application." The application also lets users play video, making newspaper reading a multi-media experience.
Developer Steve Sprang showcased an application called Brushes, which is already available as an iPhone app. In iPad form, the application takes advantage of the device's significantly increased real-estate, offering a deep artistic canvas experience. The app, according to Sprang, will be available when the iPad launches. Chad Evans from MLB.com also showcased a new app for the device featuring live video.
Jobs came back on stage to take a shot at Amazon's successful Kindle. "Amazon has done a great job of pioneering [e-readers]," Jobs told the crowd. "We're going to stand on their shoulders for this." The new e-book reader for the iPad is titled, fittingly enough, iBooks. Apple partnered with a slew of major publishers, including Penguin, Harper-Collings, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and the Hachette Book Group to provide content for the device's online book store called the iBookStore.
Unlike the Kindle, the iPad displays titles in full color. The screen's animation lets users flip quickly through the pages of the book. Users can even change the font of the books they're reading. The device utilizes the nearly universal ePub format for its titles.
For more business-minded users Apple has developed a special iPad version of iWork, making it possible to create and view spreadsheets on the device. The device can also view slides in Keynote and PDF files via Adobe Acrobat. iWork applications will run $9.99 a piece and will be compatible with Macs and projectors.
Apple is also offering a number of accessories for the device, including two docks. The first is a picture dock, which lets the device stand upright for video and image viewing. The other has a built-in keyboard, transforming the iPad into a more fully functioning netbook of sorts. Apple's case also lets the device stand upright.