The long wait is over and Steve
Jobs, the founder of the most innovative company, has unveiled the new iPad. The pioneer in
innovative technologies, Apple Inc., consistently expands its product portfolio by
developing entirely new range of products, disrupting industry after
industry. Such attempts were made by Apple earlier by launching Macintosh in
1984, iPod in 2001, iPhone in 2007, and the latest being the iPad which is poised
to transform not just one industry, but three—computing, telecom and media.
The launch of iPad, with enhanced web browser and e-mail functions,
will boost the way tech users view digital content. The high profile product
of Apple is described by industry specialists as a "lightweight media
consumption device that tries to fuse the best attributes of a smartphone and
a laptop."
The thin sleek half-inch tablet computer iPad weighs 1.5 pounds with
9.7 inch LCD multi touch screen, one gigahertz Apple chip, supported by 10
hours of battery life. With the Wi-Fi Internet connectivity, the device runs
almost 140,000 Apple applications already available on iPhone and iPod touch.
The iPad will be available in 16, 32 and 64 GB of flash memory, priced at
$499, $599 and $699 respectively. The device has a speaker, microphone
and Bluetooth, while 3G connectivity is optional. For a majority of the industry,
it is a new category of device, an always-on, all-purpose tool for media
consumption. iPad allows users to access iBooks application, i.e., almost 150,000
applications available in the store, enabling them to browse and watch videos,
play games and download books, magazines and newspapers. However, a few
analysts from the Wall Street see this as a bridge between a laptop
and smartphone which has the potential to win mass following like iPhone.
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