Yes it’s like a giant iPhone, supposedly more intimate than laptop more powerful than iPhone.

1. Available in 60 days, worldwide availability of Wi-Fi models.” It’ll be another 30 days beyond that for 3G models.
2. iWork, Pages, Numbers, Keynote – $9.99 each
3. Weighs 1.5 pounds
4. 9.7 inch display
5. 1 Gigia hertz Apple chip
6. 10 hours of battery lift
7. 16-64 GB memory
8. Includes New Version of iWork and iBooks
9. $30 Unlimited Data plan/$14.99 limited data plan – NO CONTRACT, on iPAD ACTIVATION
10. Google Maps
11. There’s no camera on the back, and there doesn’t seem like there’s a front camera either.
12. There’s another dock for the iPad: a keyboard dock.
13. There’s a “full size mechanical keyboard”, and it slides in in portrait mode.
14. The keyboard looks just like a standard Apple keyboard. And, there’s a carrying case (like the Kindle’s), and works as a stand too.

- Built-in browser, mail, photos, calendar, maps, etc. iTunes Store included right on iPad. YouTube access.
- So much more intimate than a laptop. So much more capable than a smartphone.
- Music player is a hybrid between iPhone and regular iTunes.
- Showing off browsing: Apple, New York Times, Time, Fandango. One article appears to show plug-in error…no Flash?
- E-mail: Showing off message reading and creation. Direct PDF viewing.

Showing off Calendar and Maps applications. Maps includes Street View…everything reportedly very snappy.
- Showing off video capabilities via YouTube. Also movies, TV…showing clips from Star Trek and Up.
- Back to the hardware. 0.5″ thin, 1.5 pounds, 9.7″ IPS display, full multi-touch.
- 1 GHz “Apple A4 chip”, 16, 32, or 64 GB flash storage, 802.11n, Bluetooth, accelerometer, compass, speaker, mic. 10 hours battery life. One month of standby battery.
- Now App Store…third-party apps. Scott Forstall on stage.
- Can run existing apps in a small box in center of screen or can pixel double to run full screen. Demoing. Showing off Facebook and ESPN snowcross game.
- Apple has also modified iPhone SDK to allow third-developers to rewrite for the large display as Apple has done with its own apps.
- App Store available on iPad and will feature both iPad-only and iPhone apps. Gameloft now on stage with a demo.

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