iPad

    A tablet computer announced by Apple Computer,
   Inc. on 2010-01-27 to be released in March 2010.  The iPad
   runs iPhone OS 3.2, providing multi-touch interaction and
   multimedia processing.  Like Apple's iPhone and iPod,
   it uses a virtual keyboard for text input and runs most
   iPhone apps.  It adds the iBooks application for reading
   text in ePub format.

   It has a 1GHz Apple A4 SoC processor, up to 64GB of flash
   memory, a 250mm LED-backlit colour LCD display (resolution
   1024x768 pixels) and a 25 Wh lithium-polymer battery.
   Internet access will be Wi-Fi in early models with HSDPA
   3G available soon after using a micro-SIM.  It weighs
   730g.  Features it lacks include a camera, the ability to
   multitask and an open developement environment.

   The iPad is the culmination of a series of attempts by Apple
   to produce a tablet device, starting with the Newton
   MessagePad 100 in 1993 and including collaboration with
   Acorn Computers in developing the ARM6 processor.

   <Apple iPad>.

   (2010-01-31)