Right after nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple has lastly unveiled the iPad. It’s a half-inch thick and weighs simply 1.Five lbs., with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it’s running a custom 1GHz Apple “A4″ chip created by the P.A. Semi team, having a 10-hour battery existence plus a month of standby. It will arrive in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it is got the expected connectivity: extremely tiny. There is a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, 802.11n Wi-Fi and optional 3G, as well as an accelerometer plus a compass. There’s also a keyboard dock, which usually connects underneath within the portrait orientation, support for up to 1024×768 VGA out and 480p composite out through new dock adapter cables, and a digital camera attachment kit that allows you to import pictures from your digital camera over USB or immediately through an SD reader. The device is managed by iTunes, just like the iPhone — you synchronize everything over to your Mac. As expected, it can operate iPhone apps — pixel-for-pixel either in the window or in pixel-doubled full screen — but developers can also target the new screen size utilizing the updated iPhone OS SDK, which is accessible these days. The 3G version operates on AT&T and includes new data plans: 250MB for $14.99 and an unlimited plan for $29.99 monthly contract-free. Activations are handled on the iPad, so you can activate and cancel whenever you want. Every iPad is unlocked and comes having a GSM “micro-SIM,” to help you to put it to good use abroad, but there are not any international deals in place at this moment — Steve says they will be back “this summer” with news on that front.

It starts at $499 for 16GB, 32GB for $599 and $699 64GB. Putting 3G costs a $130 per model, so the costliest model (64GB / 3G) is $829. The Wi-Fi-only model will ship in Sixty days, as well as 3G models will arrive in Ninety.

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