Steve Jobs Unveils new Apple ‘iPad’ tablet at Apple Press Conference in California

Steve Jobs is legendary for his ability to whip a crowd into a frenzy with his incredible talent for building hype around new product launches and this morning’s press conference in Cupertino, California shows no signs of disappointing. Shortly after 10am Pacific time, Jobs unveiled the latest product in the Apple range, the iPad. He describes it as being in a third space, somewhere between a mobile phone and a laptop. Apple is now the largest mobile technology device company in the world, outselling Sony, Nokia and Samsung with over 250 million iPods sold and the company generating revenue in excess of $15 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2010 alone. Not bad for a company started by a couple of geeks in a garage 34 years ago.

Moses (Steve Jobs) carrying the new Apple iPad tablets down from the Mountain

In terms of using the iPad for reading ebooks, it uses the ePub format, (all of the books on Our Writers’ Bloc are available to download in this format), which is looking set to potentially become the universal standard in ebooks in the future. Jobs claims the battery life lasts up to 10 hours – impressive for a device that size – and it runs all of the iPhone apps out of the box. Will be buying one of these asap! [http://www.ourwritersbloc.com]

Apple iPad Product Page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Detailed Specs from Wired’s Gadget Lab: http://bit.ly/9QTnPA