The latest gadget announced by Apple’s Steve Job yesterday is the Apple iPad.

I see this as a giant iPhone with its 9.7-inch, 1024×768 multitouch and capacitive screen. Also packed with other features such as a-GPS, digital compass, 3.5mm audio, accelerometer, Bluetooth and 802.11n Wi-Fi, and it can sync using USB just like an iPhone or iPod touch.

It’s unbelievably thin for such a big device – half an inch thick!!

Battery life is advertised at 10 hours. Storage is either 16, 32GB or 64GB of flash.

The device will be out in US late March but no indications yet when it will arrive in Malaysia. Apple makes one of the best touch screen gadgets around and I’m just itching to try out if online ICC/PlayChess is any good on such a tablet machine. Of course the iPad is an excellent eBook device making reading online newspapers, magazine, articles and books one of the best experience on an electronic device so far.

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