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Alright, so the mystery is gone now. Apple finally announced its highly anticipated tablet device, iPad. It is essentially a “much” bigger version of iPhone (without phone feature) or iPod Touch (with a lot of feature options) depending on how you look at it. So what do you think? Here are my thoughts on the device.

I know they introduce the new processor (their own brand) and the multi touch on the 9 inch glossy LCD may be significant for the engineering perspective, but that to me is again nothing new. Apple iPad to me is an amazing eBook/web tablet. It is a for-sure Amazon Kindle DX killer. With one iPad I can enjoy more than three ebook devices: Apple iBook, Kindle, B&N Reader and more.

So what are the things that I think iPad does it right?

1. I think the price is right. With $499 as the starting price, that will persuade people to consider buying iPad from devices such as Kindle and B&N Nook
2. New native apps are great (email, ebook, calendar, web browser, photo gallery). This always be Apple strongest suit. The update the user experience of all the native apps to nicely showcase the big screen of this device. NO compromise on the user experience here. Two thumbs up !!!
3. No contract with AT&T. Hurrrayyy !!! That is really great news. This allows people that do want 3G capability to use it with whoever they want. Not sure about the decision of using the micro SIM card

So what are my dislikes with iPad?

1. I wish it was smaller !!
2. Still no updates on the OS? Where is the multi-task capabilities?
3. No camera? Come on Apple, at least a front facing camera for video conference

Well hopefully once they have it on the Apple store to play with, it changes my mind. Especially the size. Well have to wait until March. Until then, let me know what you think about it.

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