The long story of hopes and speculations was ended yesterday, with announcement of Apples new device – the iPad, which I would call a hybrid of iPhone and a notebook. Much was talked over this outing, much was discussed about what it would be like and what its name would be, and which products it will affect as a competitor, and which spheres this gadget would help. Now that the iPad is out the speculations will give way to more grounded analyses.

I here would just like to list the specs of the device.

• Apple’s own 1 GHz Apple A4 chip
• 16 – 64 GB of Flash storage
• Bluetooth 2.1
• 802.11n
• 10 hours of battery life (or a month at stand-by)
• Speaker, microphone and 30-pin connector
• Fully multi-touch
• 9.7 inch IPS LED backlit LCD
• 0,5 inch thick
• Accelerometer and Compass
• 3G UMTS/HSPDA and GSM/EDGE data (optional)
• Assisted GPS and Digital Compass (3G version only)
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• VGA out support or AV out via dock connector and converter cable
• No camera (which is bad)
• No multitasking (which is even worse)

God knows when it comes out in Russia, remembering the super loooong story of iPhone, which has led Apple to lose pretty huge money to the importers of unlocked devices.

But even when it comes, I would rather wait at least for version 2.0, ’cause this doesn’t really replace my netbook. Though looks pretty cute to play with…

A detailed review is available in this Mashable’s post, and more pictures are available all through the net

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