Apple announces iPad – the tablet

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Apple has just announced the much anticipated tablet – the iPad and it will be available later of the year.

The iPad looks like a big iPhone, without the phone capability.  It has a 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology (resolution 1024×768) and it has an accelerometer and ambient light sensor.  It uses a 1Ghz Apple A4 CPU and it comes with 16Gb, 32 Gb or 64Gb of flash drive.

Price?  USD499 for a 16Gb and wifi only model.  The 3G data model will be unlocked.  Making it possible to be use on any carrier.

The iPad will run existing apps designed for iPhone.  This makes it to have instant access to more than 140,000 applications already available in the App Store.  And Apple has issued the SDK of iPad to developers to take advantage of the big screen.

Will it become another iPhone from Apple that will create another storm in the netbook / tablet market?  Only time will tell.

If you want to know more about the iPad, here is the official site.