After months of speculation Apple finally launched the iPad, designed to fill the perceived gap between a smartphone and a laptop. It is believed to be better than a laptop at browsing the web and that could play games, movies, music and more. All these features put the Apple’s iPad in direct competition with Amazon’s Kindle, or a few steps ahead of it. The iPad looks more like a giant iPod/iPhone that runs all iPhone apps in the App Store. It can connect via USB to sync with your PC or Mac, play HD video and a lot more. The killer feature by far has been the price. The iPad was expected to cost about 1000 USD, however the starting price of the iPad is just 499 USD which is about same as Amazon’s Kindle DX. Read the rest of this entry »