Apple Unveils iPad

SAN FRANCISCO: Just half-an-inch thick and weighing 1.5 pounds, Apple’s new iPad allows users to browse the web, read and send emails, view and store photos, watch videos, listen to music, play games, read e-books and more.

iPad’s responsive high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets users physically interact with applications and content on its 9.7-inch screen. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for the iPad, and will run almost all of the over 140,000 apps in the App Store. iPad comes in two versions—one with Wi-Fi and the other with both Wi-Fi and 3G.

iPad will be available in late March, starting at $499.

“iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”