Apple iPad here on Saturday
The iPad “connects users with their apps and content in a far more intimate and fun way than ever before,” Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said Monday in a statement.
“We can’t wait for users to get their hands and fingers on it this weekend.”
Apple promised that its latest creation will be available in the company’s retail shops and at Best Buy consumer electronics chain stores beginning at 9:00 am in the morning in respective US time zones.
People who ordered iPad devices early should receive them on Saturday as well.
Demand for iPads has evidently blasted past Apple expectations and as of Monday notations at the online Apple Store alerted buyers that new orders would not be shipped until April 12 or “late April” depending on models.
Jobs unveiled the iPad in San Francisco on January 27, billing it as a “revolutionary” device that will carve out a home between smartphones and laptop computers.
The iPad allow users to watch video, listen to music, play games, surf the Web or read electronic books.
The iPad also runs most of the 150,000 applications made for the iPod music player and the iPhone. Apple has promised that the device would come with “12 new innovative apps designed especially for iPad.”
The iPad model featuring Wi-Fi wireless connectivity will be available in Apple’s US stores from April 3 and the model that offers both Wi-Fi and 3G cellular connectivity in late April, Apple said.
The company said both the Wi-Fi and 3G models will be available in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland in late April and in additional countries later this year.
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