Apple Unveils iPad Jan 27th 2009

Started by Some Guy, January 27, 2010, 03:45:29 PM

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Some Guy

YES this is thier big secret! im gonna post all the info for all of you :)  this device is amazing!




Features
All of the built-in apps on iPad were designed from the ground up to take advantage of the large, Multi-Touch screen. And they'll work in any orientation. So you can do things with these apps you can't do on any other device

Safari

The large Multi-Touch screen on iPad lets you see web pages as they were meant to be seen — one whole page at a time. With vibrant color and sharp text. So whether you're looking at a page in portrait or landscape, you can see everything at a size that's actually readable. And with iPad, navigating through the web has never been easier, or more intuitive. Because you use the most natural pointing device there is: your finger. You can scroll through a page just by flicking your finger up or down on the screen. Or pinch to zoom in or out on a photo. There's also a thumbnail view that shows all your open pages in a grid, to let you quickly move from one page to the next.

Mail

See and touch your email in ways you never could before. In landscape, you get a split-screen view, showing both an opened email and the messages in your Inbox. To see the opened email by itself, you just turn iPad to portrait, and the email automatically rotates and fills the screen. No matter which orientation you use, you can scroll through your mail, compose a new email using the large, on-screen keyboard, or delete messages, with nothing more than a tap and a flick. If someone emails you a photo, you can see it right in the message. You can also save the photos in an email directly to the built-in Photos app. And iPad will work with all the popular email providers, including MobileMe, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL.

Photos

With its crisp, vibrant display, and its unique software features, iPad is an extraordinary way to enjoy and share your photos. For example, the new Photos app displays the photos in an album as though they were in a stack. Just tap or pinch to open the stack, and the whole album opens up. Then you can flip through your pictures, zoom in or out, or watch a slideshow. You can even use your iPad as a beautiful digital photo frame while your iPad is docked or charging. And there are lots of ways to import photos: you can sync them from your computer, download them from an email, or import them directly from your camera using the Apple Camera Connection Kit.

Video

The large, high-resolution screen makes iPad perfect for watching any kind of video: from HD movies and TV shows, to podcasts and music videos. You can also easily move between wide-screen and full-screen with a double-tap. And because it's essentially one big screen, with no buttons or anything to distract you, the picture fills your line of sight. So you feel completely immersed in what you're watching.

YouTube

The YouTube app organizes videos so they're really easy to see and navigate. To watch one, you just tap it. When you're watching in landscape, the video will automatically play in full screen. And with its high-resolution display, the latest YouTube HD videos will look amazing on iPad.

iPod

With the iPod app, all your music is literally at your fingertips. You can browse by album, song, artist, or genre, with a simple flick. To play a song, just tap it, and the now playing screen will show the album art at full size. Then you can listen to your music with either the powerful built-in speaker, or with wired or Bluetooth wireless headphones.

iTunes

Just tap on the iTunes Store icon, and you can browse and buy music, TV shows, podcasts — or buy and rent movies — wirelessly, right from your iPad. There are thousands of movies and TV shows (in both standard and high definition), along with thousands of podcasts, and millions of songs to choose from. You can even preview songs before you buy them. And you can sync iPad with the content you already have in your iTunes library on your Mac or PC.

App Store

iPad will run almost 140,000 apps from the App Store. Everything from games to business apps, and more. And new apps that have been designed just for iPad are highlighted, so you can easily find the ones that take full advantage of its features. Just tap the App Store icon on the screen and you'll be able to browse, buy, and download apps wirelessly, right to the iPad.

iBooks

The iBooks app is a great, new way to read and buy books.1 Just download the app for free from the App Store, and you'll be able to buy everything from classics to bestsellers from the built-in iBookstore. Once you've bought a book, it's displayed on your Bookshelf. To read it, all you have to do is tap on it and it opens up. The high-resolution, LED-backlit screen displays everything in sharp, rich, color, so it's very easy to read, even in low light.

Maps

See more of the world with high-resolution Satellite and Street View images. You can even see topography with the new Terrain view. You can also search for a nearby business type (for example, "Restaurant") and then tap on that business to see the route and directions from your current location.

Notes

With its expansive display and large, on-screen keyboard, iPad makes jotting down notes easy. In landscape mode, you get not only a note-taking page but a list of all your notes. It even circles the current note in red. So you can see where you are at a glance.

Calendar

iPad makes it easy to keep on schedule by displaying Day, Week, Month or List views of your calendar. That way, you can see an overview of a whole month, or the details of a single day. iPad will even show multiple calendars at once, so you can manage work and family calendars at the same time.

Contacts

The Contacts app on iPad makes finding names, numbers and other important information quicker and easier than ever before. A new view lets you see both your complete contact list, and a single contact, simultaneously. Need directions? Just tap on an address inside a contact and it'll open Maps.

Home Screen

The Home Screen gives you one-tap access to everything on iPad. You can also customize your Home Screen by adding your favorite apps and websites, or using your own photos for the background. And you can move apps around to arrange them in any order you want.

Spotlight Search

Spotlight Search allows you to search across iPad, and all of its built-in apps. Including Mail, Contacts, Calendar, iPod, and Notes. It'll even search apps you've downloaded from the App Store. So no matter what you're looking for, it's never more than a few taps away.

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Design

LED-backlit, IPS Display

The high-resolution, 9.7 inch LED-backlit, IPS display on iPad is remarkably crisp and vivid. Which makes it perfect for web browsing, watching movies, or showing off photos. It's also been designed to work in any orientation — portrait or landscape. And because it uses a display technology called IPS (in-plane switching), it has a wide, 178° viewing angle. So you can hold it almost any way you want, and still get a brilliant picture, with excellent color and contrast.

Multi-Touch

The Multi-Touch screen on the iPad uses the same revolutionary technology that's in an iPhone. But for iPad, the technology has been completely reengineered for the larger surface, to make it extremely precise and responsive. So when you're zooming in on a map, flicking through your photos, or deleting an email, iPad responds with incredible accuracy. And it does just what you want it to.

Thin and light

One of the first things you'll notice about the iPad is how thin and light it is. The screen is 9.7 inches, measured diagonally. So overall, it's slightly smaller than a magazine. And at just 1.5 lbs and 0.5 inches thin,1 it's easy to carry and use anywhere. There's also a slight curve to the back. Which makes it easy to pick up and comfortable to hold.

Up to 10 hours battery life

To maximize battery life, Apple engineers took the same lithium polymer battery technology they developed for our notebook computers and applied it to the iPad. As a result, you can use iPad for up to 10 hours while surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching videos, or listening to music.

**Wireless**

With built-in 802.11n, iPad can take advantage of the fastest Wi-Fi networks. And it'll automatically locate available Wi-Fi networks, which you can easily join with a few simple taps. iPad also comes with Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, which lets you connect to devices like wireless headphones or the Apple Wireless Keyboard.

**3G**

iPad will also be available in a 3G model, with super-fast data speeds up to 7.2 Mbps. So if you're traveling, or you happen to be somewhere that doesn't have a Wi-Fi network, you can still get a fast connection for surfing the web, downloading email, or getting directions.

Performance

The A4 chip inside iPad was custom-designed by Apple engineers to be extremely powerful, and yet extremely power efficient. So the performance is unlike anything you've ever seen on a touch-based device. Which makes iPad fantastic for everything from productivity apps to games. But at the same time, the A4 chip is so power efficient that it helps iPad get up to 10 hours of battery life on a single charge. And iPad is available with a choice of 16, 32 or 64GB flash storage.4 Which gives you lots of room for your photos, movies, music, apps, and more.

Connectivity

The 30-pin dock connector on the bottom of the iPad allows you to dock and charge it. It also lets you connect to iPad accessories like the Camera Connection Kit or the Keyboard Dock.

Audio

The powerful, built-in speaker produces a full, rich sound. Which makes watching a movie or listening to music even more enjoyable. It also comes with a headphone jack and a built-in microphone.

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Technical Specifications

Size and weight

Height:
9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
Width:
7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
Depth:
0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
Weight:
1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model;
1.6 pounds (.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model

Display

9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Capacity

16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive

Processor

** 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip

Battery and Power

Built-in 25Whr rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system

Sensors

Accelerometer
Ambient light sensor

Input and Output

Dock connector
3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
Built-in speakers
Microphone
SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model only)

TV and Video

Support for 1024 x 768 with Dock Connector to VGA adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Composite A/V Cable, 576i and 480i with Apple Composite A/V Cable
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Audio Playback

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
User-configurable maximum volume limit

What it Looks Like


Kithop

So it's a giant iPod touch/iPhone, with 3G/without the phone, running the same limited one-task-at-a-time OS...

For $500 I guess it's not bad, but... meh.  I was hoping for something running actual OS X, like a MacBook tablet to compete with stuff like HP's TouchSmart line, not an oversized iPod Touch.  Pass. :P

The fact that Apple used P.A. Semi to make their 'A4' chip inside is more interesting from a tech point of view, though.

Xen Garden

I'm just going to stick to my purple nano. Touch screens don't respond to my zombie hands that are as cold as death. So unless it has a wheel, I'm not interested. Or at least have an ipod that responds to a stylus much like a DS.

Acco

#3
@ Kithop the A4 isn't really anything special I'd bet. It's an ARM Cortex A8 SoC.

And yanno what? The apple software ecosystem for their mobile devices can stick to itself. One app open at once is bull. The app store is bull. I'll wait for an android derived tablet to come about... cause it will, it's just when it'll be made official.





Omanashi: this post edited for language abuse as declared in the forum rules

Accophox: When did it become necessary to start censoring colourful language?

Some Guy

as much as i agree, for the ammount you pay, its not to bad.

Also acco i changed your post due to the language concerns that were added were innapropriate for the forums.

Ember

You give a small man a tiny bit of power and he tries to take over the world.

Hush, barky little puppy.

Vanilla Skunk

Bite your tongue and say apple.  What does it sound like?

mediar

It looks cool, be one reviewer was saying how it could be the next uber gaming platform, and will replace PCs and Consoles..
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those that don't.

Arooo!

Vanilla Skunk

Jeez... first Apple starts making tampons... (iPad!! :P)  and now you get to play games on it?

That's disgusting.

Xen Garden

Pads and tampons are 2 different things. Since this operates outside of the body, it cannot be a tampon, for it is a pad.

Also I'm quite sure you don't stick this in your pants in the first place, for it doesn't operate with your private parts.

Wishful


Acco

#11
Max out the vibrate function ya? ;)

Also edit:

iPad. Bleed Different.

Kithop

Quote from: Wrath on January 28, 2010, 12:59:42 PM
Pads and tampons are 2 different things. Since this operates outside of the body, it cannot be a tampon, for it is a pad.

Also I'm quite sure you don't stick this in your pants in the first place, for it doesn't operate with your private parts.

I don't think that'll stop some fanboys from trying... ;P

Seriously, though, I feel like Apple has turned into this grey-haired gadget corporation with ADD and a touch of senility.  I feel like I want to take it to a home and drop it off where it will be cared for for the rest of its natural life.  They've had some amazing products and I love my Mac Pro tower and OS X to death, but it seems the rest of the company is on crack.

As FOSS catches up, there's less and less likelihood that my next computer purchase is going to be a Mac.  I've already ditched my old company iPhone for an HTC Dream (Android) device and while I'd really like to see a Rogers 3G-compatible Nokia N900 or other future Maemo device out here, my rooted Dream w/ Cyanogenmod is a close second.  I keep going back and playing around with Ubuntu in a VM or on spare computers or partitions, and every time I'm pleasantly surprised by how much further they've come, and disappointed by the glaring issues that you don't realize are a pain in the ass to fix (back/forward buttons on mice, anyone?  You mean to tell me I need to install imwheel, figure out what the hell the buttons are, and start making custom mappings for programs in the console?  I can do it, but try explaining that one to new users..).

As much as I love OS X for its UNIX underpinnings and slick, stable interface, if Apple keeps diverting resources to these crazy ventures, they're going to get overtaken in what was originally supposed to be their core market.  A market that feels like it's been abandoned in favour of chasing the new shiny iPods and cell phones.  I mean, seriously - the 9400M and 9600M GPUs in the MacBook Pro?  Is this still 2008?  nVidia has GTX 280-series chips out now that are a hell of a lot more 'Pro' than what Apple's still shoving in their top-end laptops.  Their computer division is a joke, running on momentum from years ago, and it's sad, because I want them to be so much more. :/
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Kithop

Quote from: Accophox on January 28, 2010, 12:18:58 AM
@ Kithop the A4 isn't really anything special I'd bet. It's an ARM Cortex A8 SoC.

Oh I'm sure it's not going to be bleeding edge latest-and-greatest technologically - I mean, the precedent it sets - Apple making their own ARM chips - is interesting. :p

Acco

Quote from: Kithop on January 28, 2010, 03:45:08 PM
Oh I'm sure it's not going to be bleeding edge latest-and-greatest technologically - I mean, the precedent it sets - Apple making their own ARM chips - is interesting. :p
Well it was always assumed that Apple would start making it's own silicon after they bought PASemi, most people thought it'd be the 3gs that would have it to begin with. I don't think that they'll use ARM anywhere else though except their ipod/iphone/sanitary napkin lines. It's just not as flexible an architecture and really only excels at performance/watt.

I'd look out for the MSI android tablet that's retailing for the same amount due out around the same time powered by a Tegra 2 SoC (ARM Cortex A9 dual core @ 1GHz, 1080p graphics support.)