06.11.10
iPad now launched in Spain
Apple’s new computer, the iPad, has now arrived in stores in Spain amid great consumer expectation, with 300,000 sold the day it was launched in the USA and a million altogether over its first month on the market.
The price in Spain for this small touch-screen laptop, with no keyboard will be between 479 (16GB) and 779 euros ( 64GB).
Before the product is even available in the shops, various service providers have been advertising flat rates. Vodafone is offering two flat rates, one of 15e and the other of 32ea month. Movistar has three flat rates, and for those clients who already have mobile internet will be able to connect to the web via their iPad at no additional cost. For their part, Orange is offering two rates – a daily one of 3.5e and a monthly one of 35e – both on a contract basis.
Designed along similar lines as Apple’s highly successful iPhone, the iPad allows users to surf the Internet, read newspapers and electronic books, access their e-mail accounts, look at photos and videos in high definition and listen to music, as well as all the usual functions of a laptop.
The iPad is only 1.34cm thick, weighs 680g and has a battery that lasts for up to ten hours.
The iPad is being launched simultaneously in Germany, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the UK. There are plans to launch it in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Hong-Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico and Singapore later in July.