What You Do With Your iPad

Apple iPad looks like a big iPhone, but it has much more functionality. It is intended to provide web connectivity between the Smartphones which are too small for effective web connectivity such as browsing and or surfing and that of netbooks, or laptops which do not yet the provide the comfortable portability and easy access that may be often needed.

The sleekly designed iPad is only a half-inch thick, and has has a 9.7-inch touch screen, weighs 1.5 pounds and comes with 16, 32 or 64 gigabytes of flash memory.

Application Development

- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity are built in.
- The battery is expected to last 10 hours and can sit for a month on standby without needing a charge.
- The more expensive models will be sold with data plans on 3G connectivity.
- The data plans announced have been simplified at price point of .99 per month for 250 mb or .99 for unlimited usage.
- The most interesting feature is that the API is open source, so developers are able to develop Applications, much in the same manner as apps are available for the iPhone.
- The iPad will also be able to operate apps developed for the iPhone.
- Like iPods and the iPhone, the iPad can sync with Apple's Macintosh and also Microsoft's Windows
computers.
- The iPad can be seen as a great multipurpose device with the ability to handle web-related tasks while including a book-reading interface that connects to a e-book store.
- The interface looks much like a paper book.
- The iPad touchscreen operates the software that includes a calendar, maps, a video player and iPod software for playing music.
- Consumers and early adapters may gravitate to the new category for the much improved functionality and new generations of the device can be made to include enhancements.

The Apple-iPad tablet computer may have ushered in a new era in computing as there has already numerous competitive products and even Google is rumoured to be developing a tablet computer.

http://mashable.com/2010/05/11/google-verizon-tablet/ Tablet computing appears to be an innovative way to web access and easy mobile computing.

What You Do With Your iPad