Official Tablet Announcement Thread™

[matt]

Follow it

http://live.gizmodo.com/
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/ ... veblog.ars <- may be overwhelmed

[matt]

^^^
There it is. That's it.

[matt]

[matt]

Jobs: This device needs to be BETTER than a laptop or a smartphone at these types of devices. “Or it has no reason for being.”

then

But what about Netbooks? “Netbooks aren’t better at ANYTHING! They’re just like cheap laptops.”

Interesting take he has.

[matt]

iPad

[matt]

And here’s the keyboard: “it’s a dream to type on”, and it looks like a giant iPhone keyboard. “It’s almost life size.”

[matt]

AAPL 201.77, -4.17, -2.03%

[matt]

It’s powered by a 1GHz Apple A4 chip, and has 16GB to 64GB of flash storage.

It has 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. 30-pin connector, speaker, microphone, accelerometer and compass.

Ten hours of VIDEO. And 1 month of standby charge.

[Jimbo-C]

It's humorous. Like the Onion is making this up.

btw nothing new to have a stock fall on any news.

What did they think it would be, god like?

all your screens are mine

[Jimbo-C]

It’s powered by a 1GHz Apple A4 chip, and has 16GB to 64GB of flash storage.

It has 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. 30-pin connector, speaker, microphone, accelerometer and compass.

Ten hours of VIDEO. And 1 month of standby charge.

What the hell is a APple A4 chip?

forget hacks?

[matt]

AAPL 202.16, -3.78, -1.84%

[matt]

Must be an in-house effort. They bought a chip company about a year ago. This is interesting.

[Keef]

Starting price of $499.00.

[Otto Boners]

Can you use one to order a new liver?

[matt]

Starting price of $499.00.

Outstanding. $899 or $999 was not going to cut it with crappy economy and 10% unemployment in the US.

[SLM]

I am tempted, sorely tempted.

[matt]

[matt]

AAPL 207.82, +1.88, +0.91%

[matt]

The backlight for the display is LED, but otherwise they use IPS technology, for better off-angle viewing, claims Apple.

For any display geeks here who have followed the IPS threads here at AS, this is the good screen technology.

[matt]

You can sync the apps you already downloaded to your iPhone to the iPad as well, so you don’t have to pay twice.