USA Today review of the iPad.
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iPad shipments for those who bought it will start on April 3, 2010. Basically I created this post to create more interest for those soon to be buyer of this gadget and I'm one of them. Yes, I'm still waiting for it to be available here in Singapore.
The photo application of the iPad has a lot of feature. You can also connect your camera or micro card sd using the iPad camera connection kit that's available in apple store. You can even use the iPad as a photo frame.
See the video for more detailed explanation. I'm truly amaze how cool the display is.
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Analysts and Techies are predicting the sales performance of the iPad. Estimates are based on the past performance of other Apple devices. The iPad was designed to surf the web, read e-books and news papers.
Apple opens the pre-order last week. It reach 91,000 pre-order after 6-hours.
A Gartner research analys bets that Apple's device iPad will boost sales in a big way. "The iPad isn't a tablet in the traditional sense," said Gartner analyst George Shiffler. "It's a rethink of the whole tablet concept."
What Shiffler called traditional tablets -- such as those used in medical, sales and delivery applications -- will account for just 2.5 million of the 10.5 million tablet total for the year. "Tablets have languished. They found a niche in certain areas, but they have really never taken off," noted Shiffler.
Here are some of the sales performance of notable devices from 2001 - 2009. In which Analysts and Techies based their insights.
Apple iPod was launched November 2001 and it took 91 weeks to sell one million.
T-mobile G1 was launched October 2008 and it took 23 weeks to sell one million.
HTC Magic launched April 2009. 15 weeks to reach one million sales.
Apple iPhone launched June 2007 and it took 11 weeks to reach one million sales.
Apple iPhone 3GS launched June 2009 and it reach one million sales in 3 Days.
From the trend above, analysts believes that the iPad will reach a sales in big way.
Brian Marshall, a financial analyst with BroadPoint AmTech, said today that his conservative estimate for this earnings model is just 2.2 million iPads for the calendar year."But I think Apple will actually sell about 7 million for the year," he said today.
In a consumers stand point, I think and I believe that iPad will surely hits a million sales this year. Apple remains a big contributors and trend setters of this decade.
source: computerworld.com
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Battle between HP and Apple iPad is heating up. I saw this news from sfgate.com. iPad is not yet out in the market but it really attracts attention from other big company.
HP gets Slate ready to battle iPad
by Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writer
While Apple's iPad faces an onrushing sea of competition when it hits the market April 3, one of the most formidable and intriguing challenges comes from Apple's neighbor, computer heavyweight Hewlett-Packard.
HP, which is planning to release its Slate this year, has been ramping up the marketing for its coming tablet and appears ready to go toe to toe with Apple CEO Steve Jobs' latest creation. In one slick Apple-esque video that appeared just after Apple began its iPad commercial campaign, HP showed off the Slate performing multitouch browsing of Web pages, newspaper sites and maps. Phil McKinney, chief technology officer of HP's personal systems group, has also been making the rounds touting the Slate as a powerful media device.
"We predict users are looking for that consolidated device, that one device they can use for the ultimate content consumption experience," McKinney said in a recent video interview. "The feedback that we got from our customer base is: I want to be able to browse, I want to able to watch movies, I want to be able to listen to my music, I want to read magazines and do books. So the Slate device can give you not only reading capabilities but also give you that rich media."
While the devices share some physical similarities, they are a study in contrasts in technological approaches to the tablet. While Apple and many other rivals are coming at the market using mobile operating systems paired with smart phone processors, the HP Slate takes a computer-based approach: The device will run Windows 7 with an Intel processor, presumably an Atom, which is often used in netbooks. The question boils down to whether a tablet is an oversized smart phone or a slimmed down computer.
"In some ways, Windows and Intel is a safe bet," said analyst Bob O'Donnell of IDC. "You have things that are important for people like Adobe Flash, and a lot of other things that people are used to. The question is how do people use them: like a big smart phone or a totally different way. That remains to be seen."
O'Donnell said the stakes won't be high initially but will grow over time. IDC is predicting that just 6 million tablets will be sold this year, with 2 out of every 3 an iPad. Meanwhile, netbook sales are expected to reach 39 million this year and 45 million in 2011.
Still, HP has plenty to prove in the tablet market. While it has led the world in PC sales, it recorded just $25 million in handheld sales in the most recent quarter. Apple, by comparison, clocked $5.6 billion in iPhone revenue in the most recent quarter.
Jayson Noland, a financial analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co., said HP was late to the netbook game and hasn't done anything with its iPaq line of smart phones. But he says the company has a good reputation in computers and has developed its own touch software called TouchSmart, which he said will help HP compete in this space.
"Tablets are more like PCs than cell phones," he said. "I think HP's heritage here lends itself well to a tablet device. This is an opportunity for HP. They haven't shown they can execute in the handset PDA world yet."
HP played up some of the benefits of its computer approach with a video showing how the slate will run Adobe Flash, the Web technology that powers 75 percent of online video. That's sure to be key factor in its face-off with the iPad, which won't support Flash
Read more: sfgate.com
I recently stumble upon this iPad commercial created by a student in youtube and wanted to share it to you. It's really funny and it will show some of the future capabilities of this iPad. Check it out here.
Some people say that this is just a giant iPhone but 90,000 people are already pre-order this device. iPad will be one of the top device this year.
Readers might be interested of this article.
iPad pre order: 91,000 Apple iPad sold in first six hours
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO talks for the first time regarding his life saving liver transplant in Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He joins Arnold Schwarzenegger in this event. In which they unveil a new legislative effort to greatly expand the number of California organ donors.
"I was almost one of the ones that died waiting for a liver in California last year," said Jobs
Here is the video of his talk.
By Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb
Customers may be pre-ordering Apple (NSDQ:AAPL)'s new iPad devices by the hundreds of thousands, but when they press the "On" button on April 3, they might be disappointed at the lack of content.
Apple is still scrambling to make last-minute deals with television, newspaper, magazine, and textbook content providers to ensure that iPad customers can make the most of their new devices, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The biggest hurdle for Apple in lining up content for the iPad seems to be concerns among potential partners about how a deal that gets them on the iPad might impact existing revenue streams.
For instance, The Wall Street Journal wrote, Apple has delayed a plan to offer TV subscriptions for the iPad because of lack of interest from media companies, and instead may drop the price it charges for TV shows through its iTunes store to 99 cents, compared to the $1.99 and $2.99 price tag for such shows through iTunes. The media companies, however, are concerned such a price cut could hurt their cable and satellite business.
As for streaming television videos over the iPad,The Wall Street Journal said licensing issues on the broadcast side and technical issues on the iPad side could prevent that option.
Meanwhile, many television and digital print publishers make heavy use of Adobe Systems (NSDQ:ADBE)' Flash video technology is not supported on the iPad.
However, iPad users should have access to a large library of digital books, with publishers expecting to have nearly all the digital titles they offer for the Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook available for the new Apple device.
Potential iPad customers have been able to place orders since March 12, and can have them shipped or pick them up at a local Apple store.
The iPad 3G models, which also come with Wi-Fi, are slated for launch in late April and are priced at $629 for 16 GB of storage and $829 for 64 GB. For the Wi-Fi only iPads, prices range from $499 for 16 GB and $699 for 64 GB.
iPad customers can purchase 3G data plans on a monthly basis and cancel at any time. Customers will have the option of a $14.99 monthly plan that includes up to 250 megabytes of wireless data, or a $29.99 monthly plan that includes unlimited data.
source: ChannelWeb
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