Update #1
1.5-lb device that’s a half-inch thick.
It’ll have a 9.7-inch IPS display, 1 GHz Apple A4 processor, come in flavors from 16 to 64 GB storage-wise, feature wireless N and Bluetooth 2.1, and it’ll be 0.5-inches thick and weigh 1.5 pounds. It’ll also get 10 hours of battery life on a good day, apparently.
“But what about apps,” you ask? Oh, it’ll have apps. Apps you run that are designed for the iPhone will appear iPhone-sized on the display, though you can blow them up to two times their size. there will also be iPad support added to Apple’s app development kit, which is happening today.
– can bring an “almost life-size” keyboard onto the screeen
– can watch TV shows and movies
– access to email, music, photos and mapping
– works in portrait and landscape modes
– 1.5 pounds in weight, half-inch thin
– 9.7 inch display — will run almost every iPhone app
– wi-fi but no 3G network
An Apple moment: showing off the iPad’s mapping feature by locating sushi restaurants near the San Francisco arts center where the news conference was taking place. “Looks like a giant iPhone,” one commenter said.
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