It’s official: Apple finally announced that the Wi-Fi models of its long-awaited iPad will go on sale in the U.S. on Saturday, April 3rd. 3G-capable models of the device will be available in the U.S. and other countries in late April and Apple will begin taking preorders for the both models on March 12th.
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9to5mac.com has just posted a interesting little iPad tidbit — it seems as if Apple’s latest creation has the ability to make emergency calls.
The image above is a screen shot taken from within the iPad SDK emulator. To get to the emergency call screen the developer simply enabled the passcode lock and entered in the [...]

Although Apple officially announced that the iPad would go on sale at the end of March, the actual release date may be a few days sooner. According to a blog post from The Examiner, an Apple Store employee commented that Apple is planning on launching the iPad on Friday, March 26th at 6 P.M. in [...]

We suspected that because of it’s larger size, the iPad would be able to fit more powerful components into it’s frame, with the obvious result being more speed, better graphics and longer battery life. Now Apple saying that is only partly the case. While it’s got a more powerful processor and bigger battery, the iPad [...]

Apple’s Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2010 today. Here is the “LINK” to listen
Overall, Cook came off extremely well. He talked about the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad extensively as well as their iTunes content, app ecosystem, and carrier partners. His key points included Apple saying [...]

With the iPad well on it’s way, we’re wondering just how many people are planning to get it. If the numbers from RBC/ChangeWave are accurate, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky predicts that the iPad might be even more popular than the first iPhone when it launched.
Their survey shows that 8% of their responders said [...]

Word on the street says that iPad pre-orders may be starting as soon as next week, according to the usual unnamed “source familiar with the matter.” The sales would allegedly be starting in the US only on February 25. That’s roughly one month in advance of the release date that was projected, which would give [...]

It was easy to guess that because of their affiliation with Apple’s CEO, Walt Disney is in support of the iPad. They expressed this during a financial call last night in which they complemented the device for how it promises to change the way some people consume media.
“We find that the iPad has a lot [...]

While much of iPad presentation thus far has been focused on content consumption, Apple’s iWork demo and the ability to run iPhone productivity apps — and eventually iPad-specific apps — as well as 1024×768 web apps means it’s got a fighting chance in business, especially key verticals like medicine, and with developers like Omni Group.
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Fox News is reporting that AT&T outbid all other GSM providers in offering those reasonable $14.99 and $29.99 data plans for the iPad, and while Verizon and Apple are still discussing both the iPhone and iPad, there’s still nothing approaching an agreement in place.
What about all those rumors of Verizon getting the iPhone like, now?
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According to Mission Repair, Apple’s iPad has a space for an iSight webcam/camera inside the device. Based on parts seemingly obtained through unofficial channels, the frame appears to have a very similar area to the MacBook’s existing iSight webcam enclosure.
If true, this is almost the exact same situation that occurred with the iPod touch G3, [...]

Apple’s new iPad tablet is essentially a larger form-factor iPhone 3GS or iPod touch G3 which leverages both the bigger, 1024×768 screen and an updated iPhone 3.2 OS with enhanced versions of existing apps like Mail and Calendar, new offerings like the iBooks e-book reader and store, low-cost 3G data plans, and a 1GHz Apple [...]

The recent flurry of rumors predicting the end of AT&T’s arrangement as exclusive provider of the Apple iPhone were apparently false. In fact, not only did Apple not announce the demise of exclusivity, it doubled down on its exclusive arrangement with AT&T by revealing AT&T as the sole provider of 3G wireless access for the [...]

If you’re still holding onto hope that the the iPad will have Flash, it’s time to let the notion go. In response to Internet-wide confusion, the iPad intro video which initially prompted us to think that the wonder pad would have Flash has been updated to show a “missing plugin” icon in place of would-be [...]

The godfather of tech columnists, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, got some face time with Steve Jobs at the iPad launch and Boom Town’s Kara Swisher was there with the shaky cam.
-When asked why people would buy an iPad iBooks book for $14.99 rather than an Amazon Kindle book for $9.99, Jobs said [...]