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An affordable and stylish tablet has arrived! With the launch of the Apple iPad, the way you get your quota of news, entertainment and gaming is set to change forever. The iPad’s interface consists of a vibrant 9.7-inch touch-sensitive screen. Myriad computing tasks, like browsing through websites, checking email, viewing pictures and videos, and much else can be accomplished by touching, tapping or gliding your fingers on a silky glass screen. By the way, there is also the provision for a virtual touch-screen keyboard that is so easy to use.

Powered by an ultra efficient A4 chip, the iPad boasts of more than 10 hours of battery life. Its screen is big enough to load an entire page at a time, in vibrant color and sharp text. Like the iPhone, the iPad can be used in both portrait and landscape modes. The device works with all the popular email providers like MobileMe, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and AOL. Browsing through pictures is a breeze. You can flip through them, zoom in and zoom out by using your fingers or turn them into an entertaining slideshow. The device is embellished with an application that will arrange YouTube videos in a seamless manner. To watch a video all you need to do is tap at its icon.

Music buffs have a lot going for them too. The iPad has an iPod application that makes it so easy to browse by album, song, artist, or genre, with a simple flick. The theatre quality music that pours out of the powerful built-in speakers is geared to bring life to any small gathering of friends that you might be having at your bachelor pad. Just in case, you need more out of your iPad, you can take solace from the fact that there are more than 140,000 apps waiting for you at the Apple Store. Then there is the iBooks application that subsumes as an entirely new way of reading books. Just buy books from the Apple store, and it will be displayed on a virtual bookshelf in your iPad. Can this be the end to the very popular Amazon Kindle?

The geniuses at Apple have not forgotten anything. Everything is here – Maps, Calendars, Contacts. There is even the facility of Spotlight Search, which allows you to search across iPad and all its built in applications. Currently the device is available with a choice of 16, 32 or 64GB flash storage. Whichever model, you go in for, there is certainly not going to be any dearth of space for your music, games, videos and all kinds of files. If anything, the advent of the iPad signals the moment when computers have transmogrified from being bulky products tethered to desktops and power cords, to thin, portable and sexy devices you can carry in one hand and slip into a backpack.

Price: Starting at $499

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