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The Apple iPad is here..

…and it looks like a giant iPhone….It’s got a 9.7 LCD (IPS) capacitive touchscreen, a 1ghz Apple A4 CPU, 0.5″ thin & 1.5 pounds. The iPad doesn’t have a…

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…and it looks like a giant iPhone….It’s got a 9.7 LCD (IPS) capacitive touchscreen, a 1ghz Apple A4 CPU, 0.5″ thin & 1.5 pounds. The iPad doesn’t have a cellular radio & GPS receiver (Hold on, there’s higher priced version with 3G radio & GPS) but sports BT 2.1+EDR and WiFi 802.1n connectivity. It will come in three versions: 16/32/64Gb of storage. All iPhone apps are compatible with it (like I said it looks like it’s just a bigger iPhone) but dev can modify them to take advantage of the higher res (still no word on the screen resolution yet though). Kinda disappointing no?

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Heres the official iPad product page: here

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