What is iPad?

iPad is a tablet computer made by Apple Inc. (AI). iPad have a form view that is almost similar to the iPod Touch and iPhone, only it was bigger than both products and features additional functions such as the one on Mac OS X.

iPad was first introduced by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc. in Apple Special Event held at yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, United States, on January 27, 2010. This product is designed as a digital device which is located between smartphones and laptops. Apple Inc. iPad plans to begin marketing in the United States starting 3rd of April 2010, with pricing ranging from 499 Dollars (USD) up to 829 USD. But we already can order these products began on March 12, 2010 through the Apple Online Store.

So far Apple has already announced two types of models iPad. Model Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n with 680 grams of weight that will be marketed 3 April 2010 Wi-Fi and 3G models that allow users to use the HSDPA network with a weight of 730 grams, which will be marketed in late April 2010. This product has multi-touch screen design with a 9.56x7.47-inch wide-screen 7.9 inches, or about 25 centimeters (cm), equipped with an LED backlight display with IPS technology (an abbreviation of In-Plane Switching), a resolution of 1024x768 pixels, flash memory drives starting from a range of 16 gigabytes (GB) to 64 Gb, processor 1 gigahertz (GHz) Apple A4, lithium-polymer battery that can last up to 10 hours of use, support playback of AAC audio format, MP3, VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV, and supports up to 720p H.264 video format,. m4v,. mp4,. mov, and MPEG-4. There are also Bluetooth 2.1, digital compass, GPS, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), dock connector, built-in speaker, microphone, 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack and use the same operating system with system iPhone operation.