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Apple iPad announced
by ZEKE B
March 20, 2010
On January 27, 2010, Apple came out with the new iPad, a tablet computer. Virtually the same as an iTouch or iPhone, the iPad is all touch screen.
The iPad comes with 140,000 applications to keep you busy for the whole ten hours of battery life it can hold. The iPad comes with a cord to import pictures from your camera into it. It also has a music player so you can listen to all your favorite artists and never go bored. The wireless version allows you to surf the web whenever there is WiFi available, but the iPad also comes in the 3g version, allowing you to get internet coverage anywhere using AT&T's 3g network, and you only have to pay $29.95 per month. The iPad's bluetooth technology allows you to wirelessly type using Apple's wireless keyboard, which costs around $70.00 dollars. The iPad has the same exact screen type as the iPhone and iTouch, except for a lot larger. The screen is heat censored, requiring less force to trigger the screen. 9.7 inches diagonally, the screen is a black lit touchscreen producing a large clear image. The iPad is half of an inch wide.
The iPad comes in 16GB and up. For $499 you can purchase the 16GB WiFi version, but for another $130 dollars, you can buy the 16GB WiFi 3g version. The 32GB is available for $599 for the WiFi version, and the most expensive one is the 64 GB for $699 and then again for another $130 you can buy the 3g version for $829.
To get more input on this new invention I asked one of my classmates what he thought of the new iPad. I interviewed 8th grader Cameron L. “Cameron, what do you think about this new product out by Apple?” “Oh, supercool, I think it is a great invention! I mean who would think of that? It's just plain awesome!” Cameron exclaimed. “If you had enough money do you think you would purchase this item, and if so, what version?” “I would definitely buy the iPad, no questions about it if I had enough money of course, and I would probably get the 32 GB version with 3g coverage so I can download all my music and pictures and stuff, and still use it for a computer, and I would get the 3g version because then I can get internet anywhere,” Cameron said.
The next person I chose to interview was 7th grader Derek W. “What do you think of the new iPad?” “Well,” Derek said, “It seems kind of inconvenient because it is kinda like an iTouch but it's too big to carry in your pocket but still it's like a laptop but it doesn't have as much GB as the Macbook would have.” “Do you think you would buy the iPad if you had enough money?” “Eh, probably not,” Derek said. “I already have an iTouch so I wouldn't really need it.”
So as you can see there are many different view points on the iPad. The iPad just came out and has yet to grow and get more popular. Apple will start shipping the WiFi versions in March and the 3g models in the end of April, around the time 8th graders go to D.C.
by ZEKE B
March 20, 2010
On January 27, 2010, Apple came out with the new iPad, a tablet computer. Virtually the same as an iTouch or iPhone, the iPad is all touch screen.
The iPad comes with 140,000 applications to keep you busy for the whole ten hours of battery life it can hold. The iPad comes with a cord to import pictures from your camera into it. It also has a music player so you can listen to all your favorite artists and never go bored. The wireless version allows you to surf the web whenever there is WiFi available, but the iPad also comes in the 3g version, allowing you to get internet coverage anywhere using AT&T's 3g network, and you only have to pay $29.95 per month. The iPad's bluetooth technology allows you to wirelessly type using Apple's wireless keyboard, which costs around $70.00 dollars. The iPad has the same exact screen type as the iPhone and iTouch, except for a lot larger. The screen is heat censored, requiring less force to trigger the screen. 9.7 inches diagonally, the screen is a black lit touchscreen producing a large clear image. The iPad is half of an inch wide.
The iPad comes in 16GB and up. For $499 you can purchase the 16GB WiFi version, but for another $130 dollars, you can buy the 16GB WiFi 3g version. The 32GB is available for $599 for the WiFi version, and the most expensive one is the 64 GB for $699 and then again for another $130 you can buy the 3g version for $829.
To get more input on this new invention I asked one of my classmates what he thought of the new iPad. I interviewed 8th grader Cameron L. “Cameron, what do you think about this new product out by Apple?” “Oh, supercool, I think it is a great invention! I mean who would think of that? It's just plain awesome!” Cameron exclaimed. “If you had enough money do you think you would purchase this item, and if so, what version?” “I would definitely buy the iPad, no questions about it if I had enough money of course, and I would probably get the 32 GB version with 3g coverage so I can download all my music and pictures and stuff, and still use it for a computer, and I would get the 3g version because then I can get internet anywhere,” Cameron said.
The next person I chose to interview was 7th grader Derek W. “What do you think of the new iPad?” “Well,” Derek said, “It seems kind of inconvenient because it is kinda like an iTouch but it's too big to carry in your pocket but still it's like a laptop but it doesn't have as much GB as the Macbook would have.” “Do you think you would buy the iPad if you had enough money?” “Eh, probably not,” Derek said. “I already have an iTouch so I wouldn't really need it.”
So as you can see there are many different view points on the iPad. The iPad just came out and has yet to grow and get more popular. Apple will start shipping the WiFi versions in March and the 3g models in the end of April, around the time 8th graders go to D.C.
