The magic of Steve Jobs returned today as the coolest techie revealed the much anticipated Apple tablet. Apple iPad is officially the new tablet from Apple. It’s very close to what we all had expected from Apple with quite a few surprises here and there and no major letdowns I must say! Dressed in his trademark black top and jeans along with sports shoes, Steve Jobs looks healthy as the last time we saw him.
Apple iPad features a high resolution multi-touch screen which is a LED-backlit IPS display. iPad is powered by a 1 GHz Apple designed chip. It’s thin, it’s light and it’s uber sexy. It includes a 10 hour battery life which is quite sufficient. iPad also includes 801.11 n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and 3G. You can play games, watch movies, read e-books and what not! Steve Jobs did surprise everyone as far as the pricing goes, iPad is priced at $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB model.
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At a time when I believe Amazon Kindle might be having nightmares about the much dreaded Apple Tablet launch, here’s a desi challenge. Infibeam, an Indian online shopping portal, has announced an e-book reader called Infibeam Pi. The new e-book reader looks very similar to Amazon’s Kindle which has been around for a while now. Infibeam is now taking pre-orders for it’s Pi device at Rs. 999 (around $20). The device is priced at Rs. 9999 (around $220).
Infibeam Pi is a slim and light e-book reader. It supports major Indian regional languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit etc. The company claims the device can store up to 500 e-books using it’s internal memory of 512 MB. Infibeam Pi has a SD car slot as well. You can store and listen to your music as well, Pi features a 3 mm stereo earphone connector (3 mm is strange, I’ve seen 2.5 mm and 3.5 mm but 3 mm? Anyways it could be a typo as well). I’ve shot the company a mail about this. The battery can run up to 7 days if left idle and comes with a charging time of 4 hours. The major let down is the screen. The screen is a 6″ E Ink® Vizplex with no backlight.
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