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This was aired during the Oscars show on Sunday. First WiFi version shipping on 3rd April 2010 for US customers – pre-orders open on 12th March. Apple unveiled the device on 27th January.

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Telegraph

BBC – dot.Maggie: The morning after the tablet

It’s so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone

Well, the waiting is over folks, Steve Jobs finally unveiled his iPad after months nae years of fevered speculation.

iPad eh, I didn’t think it was going to be that – I had thought that the iPad was going to be some accessory device. It makes sense though, iPod – iPad! Genius.

All the good stuff is over at http://www.apple.com/ipad including the obligatory Jonny Ive video that has you wanting it so much. It sure is a purdy piece of kit, well speced and with an entry price of $499 for the WiFi 16gb version – quite bloody tempting indeed – I thought it would be so much more. Thing is, I am sure I can hold out till next year for ipad 2, twice as fast, half the cost.

The iBook App which twists round the bookshelf to reveal the iBookstore is pure Jobs – it makes you smile.

It’s a very interesting device, I would love to see how they see it fitting into the Apple eco system, how does it work with the AppleTV with your iMac anything new there? I hope so!

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The morning after the tablet

Before the release of Apple’s new product, the most vaunted and mythical Tablet device that they have presumably been working on for many years and a device that Lord Jobs has killed off at least 4 times.

But, it seems that it may be back – if Jobs does not release a Tablet device tomorrow I reckon there will be some sort of collective geek brain haemorrhage.

Steve himself dropped a hint at yesterdays roaring profits announcement:

The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we’re really excited about

In the meantime, I liked this little faked up ad – gives you a flavour doesnt it?

So much press today – with publications trying to out do themselves to get their predictions out there:

What can we expect from the Apple iTablet?

Five ways the Apple iTablet could change our lives

Apple’s new tablet: the ‘iPhone on steroids’

Is this the real Apple tablet?

Apple turns lawyers loose to keep its big secret

Can Apple’s Jesus Tablet deliver a miracle?

Apple expects world to start taking the tablets

Apple earnings up by 50 per cent

Apple Tablet Said to Lure Publishers With Features Kindle Lacks

Apple issue thier invite to the 27th Jan event. Oft rumored to inc first look at their Tablet device. Imagine the surprise when they don’t…

Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital magazines – Blog – BERG

How a Tablet/Slate device really could work, if done well…Apple!

So, does this mean a meaty announcement then??

BBC News

MacWorld Live Updates

Gizmodo

Daily Mail

UPDATE:
No massive announcement, as we have become to expect at this time of year. A tweak of the existing iPod range to keep them rolling out the door as Christmas approaches.

iTunes 9 has some cool new features: a new UI, genius features, sharing & syncing tools, and is now the worlds most popular music store. Amazing! The device sync UI design is just prefect with some lovely new functions. Great for free!

Nice to see the Nano with a few new features: a radio is a very welcome addition as is a pedometer. But, it’s not just radio, it’s digital radio with live pause, reminds me of how Apple reinvented voice mail. And now it has video recording too! And £14 cheaper than last year, with a lot more oooph!

The shuffles are the same but cheaper and in different colours.

The classics are now all 160gb which makes a return, but at the same width as the old 120gb’s, clearly because flash memory is still not cheap enough to get rid of them and fire 120/160gb into the Touch.

The Touch is bumped up to 64gb, as fast as the iPhone 3G and with a few new features.

All in all, a refresh that will keep Apple at the top of the tree. The Nano’s will fly off the shelf (mine on it’s way in Black) . This time next year however, people will be looking for new models all round…and still no iTablet…

I’ve yet again been slack in posting – but an Apple Keynote at WWDC later today has got me fired into action.

I can’t wait to see what delights Cupertino has in store for us!

Today Apple gave a preview of what to expect in the 3rd version of their iPhone OS.

Finally, we have cut and paste and up to 100 other features, some large some small. Highlights are:

–In-App Purchases: When using a paid Web service, such as reading the Wall Street Journal or subscribing to a sports or gaming service, you can choose to maintain your subscription or membership without having to leave the app itself. The new OS brings up a service that links to the site you’re using and conveys the payment.

–Cut, Copy and Paste: Amazing as it seems, this relatively simple-sounding tool has not yet been available on the iPhone. With OS 3.0, users will be able to select type, photos or graphics (from a Web site, for example), copy them, and then enter into another application — such as e-mail or a text message — as needed. It took a while longer to develop, Forstall said, due to security concerns.

–New Peer-to-Peer capability: Users of the new OS will be able to link up with other iPhone users via stereo Bluetooth; thus, they will be able to browse another user’s iPod collection of music and videos, and even stream them to their own iPhones. The fellow iPhone users have to be within range of Bluetooth, of course. Other users will be able to play games against each other (think kids in the back of a car on a long trip); no Wi-Fi network is needed. All the iPhones will find each other automatically.

–New Push Notifications help scale out business apps: This is a unified, generic service for all platforms and developers, and it is located in Apple’s own server farm, Forstall said. The ESPN app that sends out 50 million news alerts per month is a good example; it can scale out with impunity using this capability. Lots of other applications are expected to follow suit.

–Improved Maps: In partnership with Google Maps, Apple has made the core of the map application available free to developers, so they can consider using them in the applications they intend to build. Included are all the features currently in Google Maps: regular map view, topographic view, and street view; annotations and location tracking is also in the SDK.

–Accessories: More connections to iPhone accessories will now available. For example, stereo sound-balancing and other, more granular fine-tuning features can be added to the iPhone when it plugs in to a portable speaker set to play music.

–Johnson & Johnson’s Lifescan application for diabetics can be a real time-saver. A user can keep track or his/her dosage history and schedule, and calculate the amount of each dosage based on what he/she is eating that day — plus factor in the kind of physical activities the user is experiencing that day. All are major factors in getting an insulin dosage correct.

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