The annoucement is in the title.
Price news as is lands!

This is an awesome iPad Unboxing Video

How cool does this picture look?

Gizmodo has this to say about the concept (well it’s a reality now)

You can’t deny, it’s pretty metaphysically silly to be playing a board game your parents bought at a yard sale for $2 on a $500+ iPad, in conjunction with two or more $200+ iPhones. Mix in service plans, accessories, the price of the app ($10), and the bribes you’ll have to pay your friends to join in on something so embarrassing, and you’re really pushing the limits of common sense with Scrabble for the iPad. But we will say this: it is pretty cool. We just paired up a couple iPhones (running the free Tile Rack app) and joined in with the iPad over Bluetooth or WiFi (the app makes it unclear as to which particular wireless tech is doing the honors at the moment, but both work) and in moments we were swiping tiles up to the iPad with the best of them.

I just wanna play this game for the cool factor!  I always loose at Scrabble too!

What a genius idea for the iPad.

I read this thread, before anyone replied, and thought WOW – genius.

Using iPhone as game controller for ipad?

Anyone know if any ipad games have a feature to use your iphone or ipod touch as game controller for the ipad game over bluetooth? I konw scrabble has a way to see your tiles on an iphone connected via bluetooth, but haven’t heard of any other games as of yet.

I think it would be a really cool feature. You could prop up your ipad on a table and whip out your iphone and start playing.

From Macrumors Forum

Off topic, but I love this post from Pocket Lint.

Future Week here on Pocket-lint has brought you information and speculation on what we could be expecting to find in a whole range of gadgety scenarios in 2015. That’s all well and good, but what about the here and now? If your parents popped over to visit, or your neighbours came round for afternoon tea, how would you convince them you were already living in the future? We had a look through the Pocket-lint reviews archive to find some choice products, without costing you the earth.

Now the Apple iPad has launched, it’s obvious that it’s a great machine and it’s here to stay. This blog has always been, and always will be positive about the iPad but there are some things I think Apple could have done better.

1. File management. Why can’t we save email attachments properly? Why can’t we attach any type of file to an email? This is a big deal for me, I want my iPad to save me from turning on my PC – so being able to manage my email as if I were at my desk is a must.
2. Photo/Document Store. I think that the dongle we need to use the iPad store photos on while we are out and about is a huge pain in the ass. I wish it had a USB slot.
3. Flash. It’s a cliché and I am not 100% certain that the iPad needs flash. But. But BUT – what if Apple were to lend Adobe a coder/staffer for a few months… surely they could work on getting Flash on the iPhone/iPad.

Rant over. I still love the iPad.

A quick post whilst I fire up the coffee machine after the Easter break.
This Wallpaper has to be the funniest I have seen for the iPad.

So here it is, iPad day.

After all of the reviews, should you buy one?

I have some really simple suggestions, based on the fact that I think the iPad is great – but not for everyone.

1. If you want a laptop/notebook and are considering an iPad, you should probably go back to the notebook, unless, you have another PC to use.  The iPad won’t do everything a regular PC will.
2. If you want to use the iPad for a specific job (like to read academic text books) you need to check online to see what other users are saying, there may be a better tool out there.
3. If you have another regular PC you use, and you want an iPad for mobility, it’s probably going to rock – but check reviews first – you do not want to be disappointed.
4. 4.       Click HERE for the best iPad deals online.

How many of us have woken up to find that the app store has updates for your iPhone apps?

I had 6! All updating for the iPad.

No fair! I have to wait months!

I wish I had written this blog.  It talkas about how I feel about the iPad. It says all that I want to say, so why try and immitate it?

Even myself—a tech-oriented person who depends on keyboards and specialized software like Photoshop—will do it. I will because I find myself doing more and more things on my iPhone, and less in my computer, even while I’m in front of my notebook or desktop. I use my phone to update Twitter or Facebook, to check eBay, consult bank accounts, tune a ukulele, play quick games with friends, play music, check the weather, pick up a movie and buy tickets, plan my trip across the city using public transportation, select a bar or a restaurant after the movie, and, when I arrive at the bar, name the tune that is playing. I can keep a schedule, quickly contact anyone, take a photo and sort through old ones, play any song at hand, store travel itineraries, bring up information about tides and waves for surfing, quickly pick a recipe and make a shopping list, or record a voice memo.

The list of tasks is endless. Even while smartphones are limited by small screens, they have become the absolute center of the digital lives of many normal people. Unknowingly, the iPhone invasion started the transition to this new computing era.

The iPad is here to extend that into a larger screen that will make new things possible.