ELECTRONICS

Apple has d

one it again!. After

all the speculation and rumors, they have finally managed to launch a device that is not only phenomenal and extraordinary, but beautiful in design and powerful at it's core. They call it the iPad.

As predicted and previewed, the iPadOS shares its core with the iPhoneOS and does almost everything that the iPhone does. Good thing is that it runs all the 140,000 iPhone apps (in standard, and full-screen mode) and can also be used in landscape and portrait modes thanks to the accelerometer on board.

For the specs of the device, we have a 9.7 inch IPS multitouch display along with a 1GHz in-house processor chip by Apple. Comes in 16GB, 32GB to 64GB and boasts a battery-time of up to 10 hours in active mode and up to a month in standby-mode.

A UX designer named Dustin Curtis has posted photos of what he claims to be the real Apple Tablet sitting on top of a Macbook Pro. The images were posted on his Posterous blog.

While it's hard to debate over whether this is the real thing or not, here is what Dustin has to say about it:

I have reason to believe these are real, and that the person who took/released them purposefully manipulated the reflections to add doubt about their authenticity.

The photos, though quite realistic and appealing, still do not convince us into believing that it is the "real thing" by Apple. However, this could also be the photos of an early Apple Tablet prototype or probably Dustin had a lot of free time at hands to play with Photoshop and some 3D tools. Only a day more to go and we shall come to know all about it first-hand by Apple at the Special Event on Jan. 27 at the Yerba Buena Arts Center.