iPad

After announcing release of the iPad back in late January, Apple finally set a release for the device. Here is the scoop:

iPad Release Date Update
• The Wi-Fi model will start selling the US on 4/3/2010.
• 3G/Wi-Fi model will be available at the end of April 2010.
• Preordering: Starts on 3/12/2010 (both models, US only).
• Location: Preorders will be taken at the Apple store or online at Apple.com
• 3G dataplan w/ATT starts at fifteen bucks for 250MB – the unlimited plan is thirty bucks.
• No word on the Rest of the World Dates (see the post below on the UK blurb)

Prep the checkbook folks…

More on the anticipated release date, this time via SF Examiner:

• The product will be demoed to the iStore sales folks on 3/10
• Sales personel will start iPad training program on 3/10
• Apple is targeting 3/26 as the release date
• 3G model release may be pushed to May
• Full force marketing attack starts on 3/15
• Marketing will focus on e-Book features
• Early birds will get a gift with purchase

Read more about it in Arnold Kim’s article here (Examiner).

While rumors about the Apple tablet are probably as old as the ancient Newton platform – last couple of days have reignited imagination of Apple fans.

Anyhow, on 8/15 the French gizmo site www.Nowhereelse.fr published an image of a device supposedly called MacTablet – the images are located here: iPAD Photo – I am also posting a link to the translated page outlining the upcoming device.

The news was quickly picked up by Gizmodo and Engadget which unleashed a flashflood of comments from (mostly) excited Apple fanatics. While Engadget immediately called the item fake – the story was still slightly ambiguous and some of the posters actually believed that the device may be a legit one.

Anyhow, Nowhereelse not-so-quickly withdrew and started publicly to call the device by its real name: a fake (it took them 5 days to accomplish that feat). Read more about it at the NE’s site.