Latest Apple iPad will offer up to six days of music playback with the screen turned off. With the IPS display turned on, the iPad should last up to 10 hours.
This is a consumer electronics device for puttering around the house and leisure time–reading books and Web sites on the couch, showing pictures off to friends, catching up on the latest Web videos. And, yes, listening to music.
Computer maker Fujitsu Ltd. on Wednesday said it believes it has U.S. trademark rights to the name of its device, which is used by retail-store employees to track inventory and sales.
The company hopes to replicate the enthusiasm created by the iPhone, in 2007, and before that the iPod, and dominate yet another market. The price will help, with the basic model starting at $499. Mr Jobs acknowledged that the device would be bought by people only if it provided a better way of getting at the Internet.
iPad runs almost all of the over 140,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. The iTunes® Store gives you access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 11 million songs, over 50,000 TV episodes and over 8,000 films including over 2,000 in stunning high definition video. Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse.
There are some surprisingly sophisticated DJ apps for iPhone, like TouchDJ and DJ Mixer, that let you play two songs at the same time and mix them together like a mulitrack DJ set-up. These apps would be much easier to use on the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen.