iPad prices

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The iPad is basically an iPhone with a 6 bit IPS screen and a bigger battery!

http://www.chipworks.com/Apple-iPAD-Teardown.aspx

From the article:

"Apple has relied on tried and true technology for the first generation of this device. In some cases, technically speaking, Apple has even gone backwards from what we saw in the latest generation iPhone that we have torn down.

Case in point, Apple is not using the do-all touchscreen controller from Texas Instruments that it used in the iPhone 3G, but has instead gone back to the three chip solution seen in the iPhone 2G. Of course, the same space limitations aren't there in a large device, and so we would speculate that the three chip solution had a lower overall cost. You can see from the image that, relatively speaking, the iPad is basically a giant battery with a tiny board attached to it (outlined in red), with some space left over for a future 3G mobile communications board."

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The iPad is basically an iPhone with a 6 bit IPS screen and a bigger battery!

An iPod Touch with a bigger battery and screen I'd say.

[spoon_]

An iPod Touch with a bigger battery and screen I'd say.

True but that didn't stop them from selling over a million iPads in the US, demand is so HIGH that they cannot cope...

iPads aren't for techy guys so no wonder everyone writes it off here. That's the aimed intention.

You just gotta admire Apple for being able to sell so many of them in such a short period of time.

That's deffo not the end of it once the sales hit UK and other countries number if iPads sold will triple or quadruple in a matter of weeks...

[Macman]

Would rather spend that kind of money on a Laptop, Clothes or something to be honest.

Price/Price Plans a p*** take.

[IBM]

...and they haven't changed at all in 7 months....