Before the launch of Apple’s tablet iPad, the speculations about whether Apple called a tablet as this and that, but that could be at rest now!  iPad seems to me like an enhance version of an iPod Touch, which makes me very happy about my iPod Touch since it’s smaller and less bulkier.  Sure, iPad is better at viewing the web than iPod Touch, but sometimes the weight and the size do matter most.  Reading an ebook from iPad is definitely going to be better than iPod Touch, but iPad isn’t built for reading an ebook; for an ebook we have Kindle and Nook and so on.  Apple could have added a phone capability to an iPad to claim iPad could do everything, but the company probably knew that no one would want a smart phone the size of iPad.  Why the comparing between iPad and iPod Touch?  Both devices use the iPhone operating system.

So what is the specification for this bad boy?

  • iPad has 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
  • 16GB – 32GB – 64GB flash drive
  • 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip
  • 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
  • Support for 1024 x 768 with Dock Connector to VGA adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Component A/V Cable, 576i and 480i with Apple Composite 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
  • Language support for English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Russian
  • 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
  • SIM card tray (Wi-Fi + 3G model only)
  • Others…

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