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Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Apple iPad – Way Better Than a Laptop or a Phone

The iPad is an intuitive multi-touch table-style device that embraces Apple’s most advanced technology. Boasting a brilliant touchscreen display, a powerful A4 chip and additional innovative apps, the iPad is destined to revolutionize the way you browse the web, access email and view media.

The iPad looks very much like a giant version of iPod touch, possessing the same slim, light and slick form factor. The Wi-Fi model has a weight of 1.5 pounds (1.6 pounds for Wi-Fi+3G model) and measures 9.56" high by 7.74" wide by 0.5" deep, which is smaller than a magazine and lighter than a laptop. Customers can choose from 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of flash storage.

The iPad is all about its vivid 9.7-inch LED-backlit IPS display, which shows a 1024x768-pixel resolution. With a 178° viewing angle, the screen gives you a crisp and clear picture from every angle you can possibly think of. The screen uses the same multi-touch technology on iPhone, so whether you are scrolling through a page or pinching to zoom in a photo, it responds precisely and immediately. And thanks to the built-in accelerometer, you can enjoy seamless switching between portrait and landscape modes for Internet surfing, emailing, gaming and more.

Using the Safari browser to navigate the web is smooth and easy. With support for the latest web video and audio innovations in HTML5, Safari lets you enjoy a rich multimedia experience. You can also sync your bookmarks from your Mac or PC using iTunes.

For email, the iPad supports a range of popular email providers, including AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and other IMAP/POP3 systems. Typing email on the onscreen QWERTY keyboard is as fast as using a real one. Besides, you can view mail attachments of various files and image formats, such as JPG, GIF, PDF, and Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.

Apart from Safari and Email, the iPad packs 10 more preloaded apps out of the box: Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Maps, Videos, YouTube, iTunes, App Store, Photos and iPod. U.S. customers can also download the free iBooks app to browse and buy new books from the iBookstore. Like iPod touch, the iPad has a dock connector port, a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack, a speaker and a microphone. It also comes with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR for wireless connection.

To conclude, Apple has successfully combined the capabilities of a gaming platform, a media player, an e-book reader, a browsing device and a navigation device into one streamlined, portable and powerful device. The iPad is, as called by Apple, "a magical and revolutionary product" that every gadget lover and computer geek cannot resist.

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