CNN ipad Situation room review

"if i were Sony, Nintendo, Gamers, i'd be worried"

Wall street Journal/ New Times Ipad reviews are in

SUPERIOR BATTERY LIFE, Blazing Speed,


In 10 years of reviewing tech products for The New York Times, I’ve never seen a product as polarizing as Apple’s iPad, which arrives in stores on Saturday." David POGUE - New York Times

After spending hours and hours with it, I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop. It could even help, eventually, to propel the finger-driven, multitouch user interface ahead of the mouse-driven interface that has prevailed for decades." - Walt Mossberg - Wall Street Journal



Speaking of video: Apple asserts that the iPad runs 10 hours on a charge of its nonremovable battery — but we all know you can’t trust the manufacturer. And sure enough, in my own test, the iPad played movies continuously from 7:30 a.m. to 7:53 p.m. — more than 12 hours. That’s four times as long as a typical laptop or portable DVD player. POGUE

I was impressed with the iPad’s battery life, which I found to be even longer than Apple’s ten-hour claim, and far longer than on my laptops or smart phones. For my battery test, I played movies, TV shows and other videos back-to-back until the iPad died. This stressed the device’s most power-hogging feature, its screen. The iPad lasted 11 hours and 28 minutes, about 15% more than Apple claimed. I was able to watch four feature-length movies, four TV episodes and a video of a 90-minute corporate presentation, before the battery died midway through an episode of “The Closer.Oh, and all the while during this battery marathon, I kept the Wi-Fi network running and the email downloading constantly in the background. Your mileage may vary, but with Wi-Fi off and the screen turned down from the fairly bright level I used, you might even do better. Music plays far longer with the screen off. On the other hand, playing games constantly might yield worse battery life.” Walt Mossberg




iPad have nots:
Adobe Flash


http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/31/first-ipad-reviews-hit-the-net/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/technology/personaltech/01pogue.html

http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20100331/apple-ipad-review/

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Wall Street Journals Mossberg on iPad - video

Grace, Beauty, Feels good in the hand. "Holding the internet in your hand and making it more intimate".

Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg highlights some big points:
+ Out the box day one will run iPhone Apps... 140,000 apps
+ Starts at $499 that's' huge traditionally for a company that sells
expensive products. Will be a big problem for the netbook market and
the Dells, Lenovo etc... that go after the low price market.
+ 10 Hours of Battery life(no lightweight laptops can go 10 hours)
+ they made their own chip, allows them to charge a lower price



http://www.apple.com/ipad/
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20100127/apple-ipad-impressions/?mod=ATD_rss
http://www.apple.com/ipad/features
http://www.apple.com/ipad/gallery/

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-first-impressions/
http://mossblog.allthingsd.com/20100127/apple-ipad-impressions/?mod=ATD_rss

iPad makes Nexus One look Lexus expensive

Apple® today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for  web, email, photos, videos, music, games, e-books


iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch™ display.
iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds— thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook. 

 iPad will be available in late March starting at just $499.

iPad features 12 next-generation Multi-Touch applications. Every app works in both portrait and landscape, automatically animating between views as the user rotates iPad in any direction. Watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD or flip through pages of an e-book you downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore while listening to your music collection.

iPad runs almost all of the over 140,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. The iTunes® Store gives you access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 11 million songs, over 50,000 TV episodes and over 8,000 films including over 2,000 in stunning high definition video. Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile device. The iBookstore will feature books from major and independent publishers.

iPad’s brilliant 9.7-inch, LED-backlit display features IPS technology to deliver crisp, clear images and consistent color with an ultra-wide 178 degree viewing angle. The highly precise, capacitive Multi-Touch display is amazingly accurate and responsive whether scrolling web pages or playing games. The intelligent soft keyboard pioneered on iPhone takes advantage of iPad’s larger display to offer an almost full-size soft keyboard. iPad also connects to the new iPad Keyboard Dock with a full-size traditional keyboard.

iPad is powered by A4, Apple’s next-generation system-on-a-chip.  Long battery life of up to 10 hours.*

iPad comes in two versions—one with Wi-Fi and the other with both Wi-Fi and 3G.

Environmentally responsible products, made of highly recyclable aluminum and comes standard with energy-efficient LED-backlit displays that are mercury-free and made with arsenic-free glass. iPad contains no brominated flame retardants and is completely PVC-free.

Apple released a Software Development Kit (SDK) for iPad. The SDK includes a simulator that lets developers test and debug their iPad apps on a Mac, and also lets developers create Universal Applications that run on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Pricing & Availability 
iPad will be available in late March for $499(16GB), $599(32GB), $699(64GB).

Wi-Fi + 3G models of iPad will be available in April for $629(16GB), $729(32GB) and $829(64GB).

More info on

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/27ipad.html

Apple says opps didn't mean that... original iPad?

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/business/ipad.html