Typical sport-specific garments include shorts, tracksuits, T-shirts, tennis shirts and polo shirts. Specialised garments include wet suits (for swimming, diving or surfing) and salopettes (for skiing) and leotards (for gymnastics). Sports footwear include trainers. It also includes some underwear, such as the jockstrap and sports bra. Sportswear is also at times worn as casual fashion clothing.

I think the iPad is going to reveal all types of new media browsing and user interface. We have ours on order!

http://www.udtek.com

very well said! The thing is these companies keep pumping out smaller versions of laptops with no improvements to UI. As you make something smaller you have to look at how the device will be used. This is where apple is thumping the market.

I'm betting there are many other environments where a simple, self-contained touchscreen (complete with it's own virtual keyboard for maintenance) would be very, very appealing.

A select few try to make this thing seem as if it was great.

It's not. And the majority knows it.

"iPad is what a netbook is supposed to be"

Really? With my tiny, light netbook, I can instantly videochat via WiFi with my family back home from anywhere in the world. How? It has an integrated camera, probably $20 worth of components. Does the iCan't have that? Nope. No forward-facing camera on the iPad, because Apple wants to save that feature to make you buy iPad G2, or because they want you to use some proprietary version of Skype that they will charge you for.

They love to find ways to charge for things that everyone else offers for free. They think their iPad is so good that they can omit basic, necessary features that the cheapest netbooks already have. This is how companies ultimately lose their cachet and their edge: they get too greedy, too arrogant, and compromise basic features in favor of short-term profits.

The Smartphones that sport android from last year are nothing compared to the phones/tablets coming out this year you'll see. And the iPad IS just a large iPad touch.

Concerning Flash:

http://www.sumopaint.com/ http://www.aviary.com/ http://www.prezi.com/ http://www.grooveshark.com/

these are all sites showcasing Rich Internet Applications that would not be possible without Adobe Flash. Why would anyone or any company want to stop such a wonderful programming language from really pushing the envelope in Web Technology? I do not understand this.

Do we really want to make the Web into a sort of ‘Retard Web’ for lack of a better term by terminating the platform? Especially when no other platform can do such amazing things? You can't tell me there are apps in the app store that can do what aviary.com does. If so, please tell me about it.

very nice artical ...learnt alot about the iPad.

@Mark Ya android because their phones are selling like hotcakes. Buy one get at verizon after a month out. Twenty people in line at 7am at verizon in nyc to get a droid. Selling 100,000 opening weekend. And 20,000 n1's. Ya look out google coming.

Just to clearify to some of these people that say the ipad is a just a big ipod touch/iphone. No it's not. First off all the native apps are totally different on the ipad. The ipad has a different screen. With more sensors and a in plane switching backlit led. The iphone has a 600mhz processer the ipad 1ghz. Ya its just a big ipod touch. And even with some differences(more then what I put down) what is so wrong with having a bigger ipod touch/iphone?

Just wait for the Tablets, they are coming very soon. and yes they have flash, java, multitasking, etc.

Watch out Apple, Google is coming.

Just making the iPod Touch much bigger, so it can't fit in a car park space (pocket), is NOT innovation.

That thing is way too small for a netbook replacement. At least the iPad gets the size right.

AVRCP is exactly what I would like to know, as well. It amazes me that a $600 iPhone doesn't use a full BT profile.

Rene, have you heard anything about AVRCP in 3.2? Thanks.

Sorry Apple, you had a good run but you blew it on the iPad..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjBcv9iZinY&feature=player_embedded

If you can't do what this does with a netbook, why bother with a netbook.

Now, whether or not you need a "netbook" class product or how big that segment will be? Thats a different story. But it sets the bar for netbook experience and what it should be.

I, for one, have been thinking about how I'd use it and I've been getting sub-1000 laptops for the "home downstairs" to be able to pop open a laptop and use it to do a quick email check or grab something on the web or buy something real quick. I've been using my iPhone for that more and more but its not great at that. Something in between my iPhone and my laptop is what I need. This is very attractive!

Am I totally convinced? Nope. But I wasn't even thinking about a netbook-class device until I thought about a big iPhone that isn't as expensive as a low-end laptop...now I am...

I also think that it would be great to have split screen options - but of course, that would require multitasking.

I wish there was someway to sync directly with an iPhone/iPod, without using a computer as a go between. This appears targetted at people who don't want a computer.

Chris

Lack of Front facing camera for video chat is unacceptable.

With that said, it's easy to dismiss the iPad now that no one here has gotten a physical demo of- I believe once it hits the stores and we'll all get a chance to see our favorite apps on that huge screen, it could change some peoples mind into getting the device after all.

I've purchased movies right before a 4 hour plane ride for my iPhone and I must admit, it wasn't all that comfortable watching a 90minute movie on my 3.5 inch screen.

Please send your iPad to George Hotz so he can begin work on the iPad jailbreak. I need Backgrounder and Proswitcher.

Added Apple iPad video

Right under the dimensions Rene you said iPhone and then iPhone again. I think you meant iPad then iPhone.

The good ol' budget dilemma once again.

I really think it's a bit early to judge here. I think Apple may have held back on features so they wouldn't give anything away for iPhone 4.0. Here are my thoughts.

1. Releasing this thing without the ability to multitask is suicide. I understand why no multitasking on the iPhone 3G (lack of memory and battery) and 3GS (lack of battery), but the iPad doesn't have this problem. Plus, if your iPhone runs out of battery, you are stuck "off the grid" and so I usually am in panic mode when I hit 20%. Who cares if the iPad runs out of batteries?

2. Apple is marketing this as a product between the iPhone and a Mac. Well, it isn't, unless it has the ability to do more. A larger screen does not make it more functional than an iPhone.

3. Has Apple really been working on this for 3 years? It's an iPod Touch. If anything, they probably needed to wait for processors this fast and screens this big to become cheap enough to offer it at a cheap price.

4. OK, so it's $129 more for the 3G version? Why? Is AT&T getting a cut of this? There's no way the 3G radio adds that much to the price.

4a. Will this thing run on EDGE too? We all know about there being "a map for that".

1. I don't think there's any way this thing is released without more functionality. I think they're just being tight lipped about it so they can create 2x the hype.

Apple is cheaping out on $20 worth of components that even a disposable phone would have, or else intentionally holding out so they can have something to add to a future second generation iPad. The arrogance is astonishing. They think the iPad is so amazing as it is, that they don't need to make it as good as it can be, they can hold out on some basic features so you buy another one in a year. Sorry Apple--I'm just not buying these iPads, I'll buy next year's or your competitors' if they have the basic common sense of adding a forward camera for iChat.

It's precisely the device and user experience Apple needed to create, so for me it's not that much of a surprise. What surprises me is that nobody even tried to do it before them.

Yes, Tablet PCs exist, but their tablet form factor and touch screens are just marketing checklist features" they've layered on top of the old-fashioned 1980s vintage office-productivity metaphor of the PC OS. Desktop + file folders + files. No new ideas. Stay. The. Course.

Have you actually seen anyone carrying a Tablet PC around? I've seen just one guy with one. And Tablet PCs have been on the market for what, 9 years now?

So yeah, expect about 20 iPad wannabes to be littering the aisles at CES next year. They'll be cheaper, for sure. They'll be released in 2011, and they'll be buried deep in e-waste bins before the end of 2011.

One more thing. If Apple really wants to put their boot on the neck of the netbook and cheap PC makers out there, all they have to do is drop the price of the low-end iPad from $499 to $399. BOOM. I think it'll happen before the holidays this year, for sure.

"So in terms of size, the iPhone is more than twice as high and three times as wide as an iPhone, and its quite a lot heavier."

http://www.vizworld.com/2010/01/apple-ipads-a4-cortex-a9-sgx-535/

Still very informative and hope a lot of thee features come to the iPhone next OS update!