After so much expectation, a new family member of Apple named iPad, has seen the light. Steve Jobs introduced it in his annual San Francisco event and has already produced long queues to book on major stores.

IPad is called, weighs just 680 grams, and is thin, only 13,4 mm. This is the newest member of the Apple that was released yesterday. Steve Jobs, CEO of the firm, on its annual event in San Francisco released its new device to thousands of expectant people. And that, along with the iPhone, which was introduced three years ago, has become one of the biggest releases of the company, preceded as usual by numerous rumors that echoed on the Internet.

The new device has been born to close the ‘gap’ between smartphones and netbooks. Can navigate the web, send emails, view photos and videos, listen to music and reading e-books (the firm opened a store of electronic books, iBookstore, coinciding with the availability date of the iPad in March). But in addition, Apple has designed a new version of iWork, productivity suite of applications for desktop computers own specifically designed for multi-touch for the new iPad. With Pages, Keynote and Numbers The user can create formatted documents, presentations with animations and transitions, and spreadsheets with statistical graphs, functions and formulas.

In general, includes 12 new applications developed especially for the iPad and, according to Apple, it works with virtually all of the more than 140,000 applications available on the App Store, including those already purchased by the user for the iPhone or iPod Touch.

The user will see all these applications on a 9.7 inch screen and LED backlight, which includes winning IPS technology for crisp and clear, with a viewing angle of 178 degrees. All applications will work in both portrait or landscape, changing automatically and dynamically between views when the user rotates the iPad in any direction. In addition, applications will run on the chip itself A4 Apple.

For connectivity, the new device will offer two versions: one with comnicación Wi-Fi 802.11n, and the other with Wi-Fi and 3G, which supports speeds up to 7.2 Mbps on HSDPA networks.

Finally, adding that the company has launched a new software development kit (Software Development Kit or SDK) for developers to create applications designed to take advantage of the capabilities of the iPad.

Prices

Although the iPad will be available worldwide beginning in March, only been realized prices for the U.S., which depend on the storage device and wireless connection type you wish:

- The U.S. MSRP is $ 499 for the 16GB model,
- Cost $ 599 for 32 GB model,
- And $ 699 the 64 GB model

IPad models with Wi-Fi + 3G will be available in April in the U.S. and certain countries. U.S. Retail pricing be:
- $ 629 for 16 GB model,
- $ 729 for 32 GB model,
- And $ 829 the 64 GB model