The Apple tablet was released in April 2010 and as per statistics, by June around 2 million units had been sold.
The best feature about the Apple tablet is that the operating system is not new to Apple users. The iPad uses the operating system as the iPod and the iPod touch, with modifications. The Apple iPad is capable of synchronizing iTune files the user may already have. Furthermore, a 30 pin connection cord has been provided with the iPad tablet, allow users to charge or connect the iPad to another machine. The iPad table additionally allows users to transfer the media they purchased online in the form of songs, videos and games.
The Apple iPad comes with a touch screen that is 9.7 inches in size and a high resolution display of 1024 x 768. The CPU of an iPad is around 1GHz, which is very fast for such a handheld gadget. The iPad comes with built in wireless as well as Bluetooth connectivity, allowing users to connect as easily as they would on an iPhone or iPod.
Although there are attractive features associated with the Apple iPad, it does have some drawbacks as well. The maximum size of the hard drive that comes with the iPad is 32GB. This is certainly very low, considering different notebooks these days coming with hard drive sizes beyond 300GB. Apple gives two other options for the hard drive size; 16GB and 32GB. The Apple iPad was said to be providing users with the comfort of enjoying music and videos while they are on the go. With such a small hard disc, only a portion of an average user’s media collection would be fed into the iPad.
The battery life of the iPad also has issues. If the iPad 3G is being used heavily, the battery will last less than 10 hours.
Surprisingly, the iPad does not come with any built in USB ports. There is no flash support for websites, SMS text messaging or any type of Skype support. You may also face problems in accessing the 3G network the iPad 3G was built to be compatible with.
A major drawback the iPad 3G machine has is that it is unable to allow the user to access more than one program at a time. This has been termed to be the disadvantage that can really damage the sales of the iPad tablet as multitasking is the core requirement of users these days.
To overcome these drawbacks and further boost sales, Apple will most definitely come up with the version 2 of the Apple iPad 3G. Else, other competitors in the market will surely catch up with better features and Apple may have to see the iPad losing its place in the global market.
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