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كشفت شركة أبل من خلال مؤتمر Apple وآخر الإختراعات المقدمة فيه عن جهاز Apple iPad ، بشاشة طولها 9.7 إنش وبتقنية LCD ، ويأتي بعدة سعات 16 و 32 و 64 جيجابايت ، كما يدعم الوايرليس والجيل الثالث وكذلك البلوتوث، الجدير بالذكر أن المعالج الذي يستخدمه هذا الجهاز هو من شركة آبل   Apple A4 ، بسرعة 1 جيجاهرتز يتم استخدامها في iPad  ، مع دعمه  للألعاب،  كما يتميز هذا الجهاز ببطارية تستمر لمدة 10 ساعات متواصله من العمل >>>

كما إن هذا الجهاز يتوافق مابين أدارة المهمات و الأستماع إلى الموسيقى ومشاهدة الفيديو وقراءة الأخبار أو الكتب الألكترونية  ويقول ستيف مدير الشركة أن أجهزة النت بوك ليست صالحه أبدا . الواجهه مشابهه جدا لواجهة الآيفون  ألا أنها تم تنسيقها وترتيبها وتوسيعها لتتناسب مع قاس الشاشة الكبير . التطبيقات الموجودة به هي ماكنتوش ولكن على طريقة الآيفون كما أنه هنالك iPhoto و iTunes  بالإضافة إلى برنامج لتحديد موقعك ، كما إن برنامج iWork تم أعادة تصميمه بشكلا كامل حتى يكون متوافق مع iPad ، الجهاز لن يكون فقط مجرد iPad يحمل بداخله العاب و ملتميديا فالشركة كشفت عن نسخه للبرنامج iWork  وهي نسخه معدله . كافة الخصائص حاضره  وسعر البرنامج سيكون 9.9 دولار أمريكي، أما بالنسبة للسعر  499 دولار أمريكي للـ 16 جيجابايت و 599 دولار أمريكي بـ 599 دولار أمريكي و 64 جيجابايت بـ 699 دولار أمريكي . أضافة تقنية الجيل الثالث 3G سيكلف 130 دولار أمريكي.

وفي عرض خاص من قبل شركة AT&T لحاملي أجهزة iPad  سيكون هنالك عرض رائع وهو دفع 30 دولار أمريكي بالمقابل لتحصل على خدمة لانهائية من الأنترنت وهذا يعني أن هنالك منفذ للشريحه  وضحت الشركة الخدمة لانهائية هو السعر السابق أما  250 ميجابايت  فهي بمبلغ  14.99 دولار أمريكي في الشهر . كما وضحت الشركة أنه لن يكون هنالك عقد  وهذا يعني أن الجهاز مفتوح للجميع !! أما العيوب التي ينظر إليها البعض من خلال هذا الجهاز  فهو عدم وجود لإدارة المهام وبدون كاميرا وعدم وجود لوحة مفاتيح  وكذلك بدون منفذ HDMI  لخيار المشاهدة عن طريق التلفزيون ، وأخيراً عدم دعمه للغة العربية.

 Here it is folks, the Apple iPad. The screen is gorgeous, tilting is responsive, and the thing is super thin. Still, if you've used the iPhone before -- and you can see the two devices side-by-side here -- there's not a lot of surprises here so far. Here are some initial thoughts on the iPad:

    * It's not light. It feels pretty weighty in your hand.
    * The screen is stunning, and it's 1024 x 768. Feels just like a huge iPhone in your hands.
    * The speed of the CPU is something to be marveled at. It is blazingly fast from what we can tell. Webpages loaded up super fast, and scrolling was without a hiccup. Moving into and out of apps was a breeze. Everything flew.
    * There's no multitasking at all. It's a real disappointment. All this power and very little you can do with it at once. No multitasking means no streaming Pandora when you're working in Pages... you can figure it out. It's a real setback for this device.
    * The ebook implementation is about as close as you can get to reading without a stack of bound paper in your hand. The visual stuff really helps flesh out the experience. It may be just for show, but it counts here.
    * No camera. None, nada. Zip. No video conferencing here folks. Hell, it doesn't have an SMS app!
    * It's running iPhone OS 3.2.
    * The keyboard is good, not great. Not quite as responsive as it looked in the demos.
    * No Flash confirmed. So Hulu is out for you, folks!

 After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple's finally unveiled the iPad. It's a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it's running a custom 1GHz Apple "A4" chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It'll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it's got the expected connectivity: very little. There's a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi and optional 3G, as well as an accelerometer and a compass. There's also a keyboard dock, which connects underneath in the portrait orientation, support for up to 1024x768 VGA out and 480p composite out through new dock adapter cables, and a camera attachment kit that lets you import photos from your camera over USB or directly through an SD reader. The device is managed by iTunes, just like the iPhone -- you sync everything over to your Mac. As expected, it can run iPhone apps -- either pixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen -- but developers can also target the new screen size using the updated iPhone OS SDK, which is available today. The 3G version runs on AT&T and comes with new data plans: 250MB for $14.99 and an unlimited plan for $29.99 a month contract-free. Activations are handled on the iPad, so you can activate and cancel whenever you want. Every iPad is unlocked and comes with a GSM "micro-SIM," so you can use it abroad, but there aren't any international deals in place right now -- Steve says they'll be back "this summer" with news on that front.

It starts at $499 for 16GB, 32GB for $599, and $699 64GB. Adding 3G costs a $130 per model, so the most expensive model (64GB / 3G) is $829. The WiFi-only model will ship in 60 days, and the 3G models will come in 90.

While the news of Apple's iPad  having 3G wasn't exactly a surprise, the move to a new format for the SIM certainly was. The SIM  -- that tiny card that holds your contact info and account information that you find in your GSM handset -- is a 15 x 25mm plastic card whereas the new Micro SIM (also known as a 3FF SIM) is a diminutive 12 x 15mm, about 52% smaller. Needless to say, it's not physically compatible with your current phone. This card was developed by the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) to offer things like more storage space on-chip for provider applications, increased control and security functions -- over what, we don't know -- and the new smaller form factor allows it to fit in tiny devices. Frankly, we wouldn't call the iPad "tiny" and we have absolutely no clue what justification Apple had to switch to it other than a desire to be different -- this is the company that pioneered Mini DisplayPort, after all -- but the long and the short of it is that you're going to have a hard time finding a carrier offering Micro SIMs in the short term since the GSMA doesn't appear to be actively spearheading a mass conversion. In fact, from AT&T's perspective, this is better than a software lock in some ways -- you're not going to be able to download a hack that gets you on another network, so you're totally at the mercy of your carrier at choice for providing a compatible card. Intentionally evil? Perhaps not -- all standards have to start somewhere -- but it's an awful pain in the ass.