In the wake of the presentation of Apple: the iPad Tablet

That's it - no more no rumors, speculation and divination. Apple's, as it turned out, did make a tablet. The result showed yesterday at a special event. The network already appeared the first Apple iPad reviews from authors who are fortunate enough to spend some time with a flatbed. Opinions, as usual, stripped from jubilation to harsh criticism ( "Where is the camera, Steve?").

What is a device?

Apple iPad looks like a greatly enlarged iPod Touch. Apparatus size 243x190x12,5 mm weighs about 700 grams (680 grams of the basic model with WiFi and 730 gram model 3G).

Contrary to rumors model will come with a screen size of only 9.7 ". Previously, we recall, many believe that Apple will offer two models with a display 7 "and 11".

The screen itself is made of IPS technology, resolution of 1024x768 pixels. Aspect Ratio 4: 3, so that the movie probably will not look very comfortable. Naturally it supported multach and gestures.

The rear part of the housing is made of aluminum, the front - glass. screen coating is resistant to fingerprints.

iPad uses Apple A4 own processor. About him we know very little: it works with a frequency of 1GHz. Immediately the question arises. Will A4 used in other Apple devices? The new version of the iPhone will also pass on the use of the A4? Where to check the details about the processor? How many cores it?

Powered Apple iPad running iPhone OS. Virtually all programs that run on the iPhone or tache will run on iPads. Application developers can tailor the program to work on the big screen, the appropriate SDK is already available.

Apple promises that the battery will sustain 10:00 of active work and 1 month in sleep mode. Not bad.

iPad as an eReader eBook

Along with the announcement of the Tablet PC, Apple introduced and bookstore, which will be part of iTunes. Buy the book will be in the open ePub format. It is unclear whether the publications are protected by the DRM, can you upload the book?

Since the iPad runs on the control iPhone OS, we can use existing programs for reading e-books. This means that there are no problems with the support of FB2, even firmware does not have to break.

In addition, as rightly notes Maxim Moshkov, it will probably be the only device that will allow comfortable read a book in PDF-format with all the graphs and illustrations. Engineers and designers will be happy ;-)

Since the basic version of Apple iPad costs $ 500 in the United States, it is unclear who will now need readers "Sony", "Amazon" and "Poketbuka". Black and white, with an ugly design, they are worth a hundred and a half less, but almost can not do anything.

I think that people who are engaged in self-education, love the iPad. It is the perfect tool for reading electronic books and viewing of lectures in iTunes U and AcademicEarth.org. The dream becomes a reality.

Apple offers to read and buy books use iBooks - shop and applications simultaneously. Very interesting, we'll see a version "ayknizhek" for iPhone, Mac OS X? I think yes.

iPad as a device for entertainment

Here, too, everything is simple. You can watch movies, listen to music. iPad supports the playback of music files in AAC format, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV and video formats .m4v, .mp4 and MPEG-4.

Although the device display resolution of 1024 × 768 dots, the tablet can play video with a resolution of 720p. Claims critics about the fact that the device does not support FullHD, incomprehensible. Do you really intend to watch FullHD-video on the screen at 10 "?

Transfer data on the iPad will be using iTunes. In general, nothing new here.

iPad as a gaming console

As expected, iPad copes with the role of a game console. The presentation shows the 3D-racing and shooting games. I think that the desktop versions of popular games (Monopoly, erudite) will also be fascinating.

The disadvantages of the device

Shortcomings in the Apple iPad were many. The operating system still does not support multi-tasking. You can not read a web page and at the same time to communicate with friends in IM-client. Read a book and listen to the music accordingly also fail. In my opinion, this is a big drawback. Moreover, it seems it will not be soon corrected. device sales will begin in a few months, and if Apple had plans to include support for multi-tasking, we would have reported it.

The second drawback - the lack of a webcam. No video-conferencing, friends.

Grieved and display. Aspect Ratio 4: 3 makes watching movies is not as comfortable as possible.

whether iPad will be popular?

Mobile-Review edition skeptically It reacted to iPad. Among the drawbacks noted that the tablet is not very suitable for use on the road:

In this way the device loses laptops lack a full, rather than on-screen keyboard. The screen size and resolution are comparable. Weight less than one kilogram pleasant, but that's the pros zakanchivayutsya.ustroystvo home.

Some truth in this. If you plan to use the iPad to write a book, it is not the best choice. But in fact, I think that not everyone in exactly the way you need to report and write novels. Many people just need to kill some time. Watch video, read books and magazines, check out the presentation ...

Most accurately designated the appointment of iPad Om Malik: The device is designed to use the whole variety of digital content. And with the Apple tablet that copes perfectly.

So it will not hold your hand, all we buy the iPad, which will be the iPods in the world of tablets. Microsoft Slate is not in fact to buy, in fact ...