The screen is a capacitive 9.7" IPS display with 1024x768 resolution. It is 0.5 inches thick and weighs 1.5 pounds. The back of the device looks to be a silver with black Apple logo, a bit like the current iMac range. The button looks like it has been lifted off the iPhone; let’s hope it’s big enough.
The accessories look pretty fantastic. There is one which makes it into a portrait desktop computer. Although the annoying thing is that it can’t because it needs to be plugged into another computer to get media. Why couldn’t it have add ons for optical drives and a slot for an iPod?
The accessory I was talking about was the desktop one. It made the iPad a portrait iMac with a tiny screen. This is really good but again, it can’t be used as a desktop computer since it relies on another one!
Engadget have had a hands-on and confirm that there is no flash, no multitasking, no camera and no SMS. They have also said that the keyboard wasn’t great, and that it wasn’t as responsive as in the demos.
Surprisingly, they said it felt quite weighty. This is strange considering it weighs 1.5 pounds but I guess its thinness means it carries that bulk all in your hands. It is also running iPhone OS 3.2, which means no iPhone OS 4 for this event I’m afraid.
That’s it for the summaries of the iPad. But tomorrow I shall summarise this event as a whole, and if it lived up to the expectations or not.
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