Finally, curtains were unveiled from the most anticipated product launch of the year, and there appeared Apple’s iPad that is boasted to revolutionize the publishing industry in same manner as Apple iPad is known for breaking through music industry. Here are some quick facts about Apple iPad, which would tell you all about this innovative and desirable gadget.

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•    It is provided with a virtual touchscreen keyboard and can be attached with an external physical keyboard. It is designed of aluminum and glass and has on screen QWERTY keyboard. With an accelerometer it can be kept in portrait as well as in landscape mode.

•    iPad’s LCD color screen is of 9.7 inch and is enabled with same multi touch technology, magic mouse and notebook trackpads as available with iPhone. In plane switching technology it has used same iPhone switching technology. Its screen resolution is of 1024 x 768.

•    Apple iPad can playback 720p HD video. For external sources it is fitted around to be 480p. Ther oleophobic coating on it make its easier to help face and finger grease bead up and wipe off easier. It too has volume rocker and a mute button same like as iPhone.

•    iPad operates on iPhone’s operating system and can employ all of the 140,000 apps available with the smart phone.

•    iPad is available in two versions one with Wi-Fi connection and other with third generation mobile phone services

•    With battery life up to 10 hours, it has a 1 gigahertz chip that is custom designed by Apple. Its standby time is approximately a month. It supports both WiFi as well as Bluetooth connectivity.

•    The price for 6-gigabyte version of the basic Wi-Fi model of iPad is set for $499 whereas the 32-gigabyte version will cost $599, and a 64- gigabyte device will be $699. For 3G models one would have to wait till April.