Apple iPad News Roundup [What You Still Don’t Know About Apple’s iPad]

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Brave men prepared their battle gear today. With keyboards and mice in their hands and lots of monitors staring them back into their tablet-hungry eyes the writers here at TFTS waited impatiently for Apple to reveal the Tablet at the Yerba Buena Vista Center in San Francisco. And the iPad, that was its name, was revealed today and the writers dealt with everything iPad-related with grace and honor. Think you might have missed any of the action? Luckily for you we’re ready to show you the path towards all iPad information.

Standing in front of the hordes of bloggers Steve Jobs came out on the stage wearing his famous keynote-ready turtleneck. After briefly talking about Apple’s performance over the past years, Apple’s CEO announced the tablet a lot earlier during the show than expected.

We soon learned more about the specs behind this iPad wizardry: 9.7-inch touchscreen display, 1GHz A4 system-on-chip, 16, 32 and 64GB flash memory versions, Wi-Fi n and 3G support are all going to be needed to run lots of iPhone-based applications, games and multimedia files. Unfortunately for us there’s no iPhone OS 4.0 and no multitasking yet.

Apple prepared a special new service for future iPad owners. iBook is going to be the worst enemy of the Kindle as it’s going to be filled with eBooks soon. The iPad will offer support to printed media too and the New York Times application will offer users a unique digital version of the famous newspaper.

If gaming is what you’re looking for then you’ll be able to do just that, play games on the iPad. All the games working on the iPhone and iPod touch will run on the iPad too. But publishers like Gameloft and EA are going to make new versions of these games specifically designed for the iPad.

The iPad will also be a great tool for professionals on the go. A new iWork version has been created especially for the iPad. Its main features, Keynote, Pages and Numbers will all be available for just $9.99. Surprisingly though there’s no Flash support so web browsing will be just a little too annoying without that particular feature.

The iPad will be in the USA available from March, the Wi-Fi versions and from April, the Wi-Fi + 3G versions. International customers will get all iPad versions later this summer. And it’s AT&T the carrier ready to sell the iPad in the U.S. No subsidized prices will be involved and there will be no contracts. You’ll be able to use the 3G subscription for as long as you want. Verizon, although rumored to launch the iPad until earlier today, has not been mentioned by Apple’s CEO so the iPad is just an AT&T business.

Now that you know what the tablet can do for you, you’ll be happy to know that the cheapest iPad will cost just $499 while the most expensive will go for $829. You’ll have to get extra accessories in order to take advantage to the fullest of the iPad and Apple happens to have such products available for the taking.

As you can see the writers here at TFTS have thoroughly covered the iPad, so now, since the tablet became official earlier today, you’ll be able to make an informed decision next time you’ll be shopping for an Apple mobile computer. So what is it going to be? An iPad, a MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air?