Doctor Steve, I want that tablet – Called the iPad.

I know it’s been a long hiatus. The book readings going fine so far but I basically took a break to get myself some goals and an exciting upcoming project of mine.

But something bigger came out today.

Thanks to Engadget and ustream, I have been following it live. Here are some more pictures of the event. I think it was a little disappointing visually because it looks like an over stretched iPhone and somehow the resolution just doesn’t seem right.  That doesn’t change the fact that almost every thing else about this beauty is sexy.

Here are some of the features mentioned for the iPad that Steve Jobs introduced today. Most of the stuff is the same from the iPhone but Amazon got a blow below the belt with perhaps the most important announcement. iBooks.

and then the iBooks.

I’m not bitching, I just ordered the Kindle. But I am wondering if I should wait a bit. The price hasn’t been announced yet and me and my friend are betting on Facebook. I predict that it should be $ 799/ $ 800. That’s exactly half between the iPhone and the Macbook Pro. He’s betting $ 699, either way, I think I’m going to get my hands on one of them. If just to show off.

Here are the features broadly.

It’s a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it’s running a custom 1GHz Apple “A4″ chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It’ll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it’s got the expected connectivity: very little. There’s a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, and 802.11n WiFi, as well as an accelerometer and a compass. As expected, it can run iPhone apps — either pixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen — but developers can also target the new screen size using the updated iPhone OS SDK, which is available today. – Engadget

And the price was just announced. I’m sending/cancelling that Kindle of mine for sure now. This comes at a stellar.

Oh I’m most definitely getting one now yo.

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