the Apple iPad – first info (courtesy of macdailynews.com)
- iWork looks like a new suite – lots and lots of capabilities
- iBooks is a great eBook reader and a great online bookstore all in one app – uses the ePub format
- Apple partners with Pengiun, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hatchette Book Group
- App Demo: One of our favs, MLB.com At Bat: Live fullscreengame video
- App Demo: EA’s Travis Boatman: “Need For Speed Shift” game: “Building for the iPad is a little bit like holding a HDTV screen a few inches from your face.”
- App Demo: Brushes,
- Tap to zoom, pinch to resize, etc.
- Video inside NY Times stories plays
- App Demo: The New York Times
- App Demo: Gameloft shows FPS “Nova”
- Green Cred: iPads are arsenic-free, BFR-free,Mercury-free, PVC-free system, Highly Recyclable
- iPads have built-in App Store, of course. iPad apps willbe “front and center.”
- SDK includes “iPad simulator” for devs to run the iPad apps on Mac
- New iPhone SDK supportsiPad development; available for download today
- Runs all iPhone apps unmodified; can also “pixel double” to run all apps full screen
- Battery life: 10 hours VIDEO with over a month standby
- Accelerometer & Compass
- Speaker, Mic, 30-pin Dock Connector
- WiFi 802.11n
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- 16 – 64GB Flash storage
- Jobs: “It’s powered by our own silicon. The 1GHz Apple A4 chip. It screams.”
- 1/2-inch thin, 1.5 pounds
- Movies demo -they look great
- 9.7-inch IPS display with capacitive Multi-Touch™
- On screen keyboard
- Photo
- Movies and TV shows
- Slide to unlock – like iPhone
- Google Maps
- iTunes Store built right in. YouTube in HD.
- Very thin. Best web browser you’ve ever had.
- “We think we have something better… And we call it the iPad.”