When the iPad was launched this year as Apple's current flagship product, many raves and rants countered all the hype of its release. But did you ever wonder What is the iPad? Here are some cool facts about this hand-held gizmo.
Originally, Apple was going to the name the iPad as the "iBook". Spirited enough, it is highly held in comparison these days with the e-book readers such as the Kindle.
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The iPad measures 9.56 inches long, 7.47 inches wide and 0.53 inches thick weighing 1.6 pounds. It has a 9.7 inches multitouch full color Ips display with a built-in accelerometer giving it the capability of automatically adjusting orientation. It runs at a speed of 1 Ghz with an iOs of 3.2.2 Apple A4 ideas chip.
Did you know that one application averages at a cost of .99 but it takes more than a month to build a single application?
Steve Jobs designed the iPad to be free from pornography by excluding it from the App store besides the fact that it does not keep Adobe Flash. This pushed pornography sites to turn their video formats from Flash to iPad-friendly formats like H.264 and Html5.
Safari is the most commonly used application while Apple.com is the most visited website.
Despite the flaws in terms of connectivity, one can categorically sync his/her iPod Touch or iPhone with the iPad.
With all the restrictions on this piece of gadget, users will be happy to know that jailbreaking is potential allowing unauthorized Apple applications and programs to be downloaded into it. But if you are mental about it, just keep in mind that jailbreaking will void the warranty on the product.
Despite the widely appropriate belief that the iPad was modeled after the iPhone, Jobs admits that the iPad view came first. It was originally called the Safari Pad project. However, he decided to put off its creation and form the iPhone instead due to battery life issues. No wonder many characterize it as an enlarged iPhone inspecting that all applications that work on the iPhone works with the iPad.
Cool Facts About iPads