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The Safari web browser on iPad puts the Internet in your hands — literally. View whole web pages in portrait or landscape on the large Multi-Touch screen with vibrant color and sharp text at a size that’s actually readable. When you rotate iPad to landscape, the page you’re viewing rotates, too, then expands to fit the display.
Mail
Your inbox just received a whole new look.
The Mail app on iPad gives you a natural new way to see your email. Hold iPad in landscape for a split-screen view showing both an opened email and the messages in your inbox, each with a two-line preview of its contents. That makes it easy to get through lots of email quickly. When you want to focus on a single email message, turn iPad to portrait. The email message automatically rotates to fill the screen, so you can concentrate on its contents. If you’d prefer a hard copy of what you see onscreen, use
AirPrint to wirelessly print your message.*
Tap, pinch, and flick through your photos.
With the built-in Photos app on iPad, you can see and touch your photos in intuitive new ways. Your photo albums appear as tidy little stacks you can pinch to preview. Tap a stack, and the whole album opens up. From there you can scroll through thumbnails. Tap to view full screen. Or flip through photos one at a time.
Your own personal big screen.
A beautiful 9.7-inch high-resolution display makes iPad perfect for watching any kind of video: from HD movies and TV shows to podcasts and music videos. Since iPad is essentially one big screen — with no distracting keypad or buttons — you feel completely immersed in whatever you’re watching. And you can keep watching for up to 10 hours, thanks to the lithium-polymer battery in iPad.
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Watch more.
The YouTube app is designed specifically to take advantage of all the capabilities of iPad. The high-resolution screen makes YouTube videos look amazing, especially those in HD. Content is organized in a new way, so it’s easy to navigate and watch. Tap what you want to see, and the video automatically appears full screen. Use your fingers to play, pause, and advance through a video. Turn iPad sideways and it plays in widescreen.
See more of your music.
The big, beautiful iPad display lets you browse your music collection by song, artist, album, genre, or composer with the touch of a finger. See your music as full-size album art. Flip through all your albums and tap to choose what you want to hear. It’s as natural as flipping through CDs.
Instant music, movie, and TV show gratification.
You’re in a coffee shop and you hear a song you just have to have. Or you’re in an airport, wishing you had a good movie to watch. With Wi-Fi access and one tap of the iTunes icon, you can discover new music. Buy or rent movies and TV shows. Or browse free podcasts. Then download them all wirelessly, right to your iPad. Wherever you happen to be.
Apps made for iPad.
Right now you can tap into the App Store to shop for thousands of amazing apps made just for iPad — and more are added every day. They’re easy to find in their own special section, in every possible category: games, lifestyle, social networking, education, and dozens more. And they’re all designed specifically to make the most of the large iPad display, precise Multi-Touch screen, and powerful processor. If you’re just browsing, the App Store makes it easy. You can see what’s new in Featured, check out the Top 25, and even preview each app. Find apps by doing a quick search, then download them wherever you are and get started right away.
Change your view.
Finding your way is a completely new experience on iPad. Tap to view locations from above with high-resolution satellite imagery, up close with street view, by topography with a new terrain view, and in map view — all using Google services. Drag your finger up to lift the corner of the map, and you can switch between views. iPad with Wi-Fi finds your location using known Wi-Fi hotspots, and Wi-Fi + 3G models use Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular towers. So you can get routes, get directions, and get there in no time.
Collect your thoughts.
Use the Notes app to jot down anything and everything and take it with you wherever you go. iPad is so thin and light, you can take it to a meeting, a lecture, even the grocery store. The iPad display gives you plenty of space to fill with your notes and to-do lists.
How’s your schedule look? Absolutely great.
Calendar on iPad keeps your busy life beautifully organized. View your calendar by day, week, or month. See everything in a list. iPad changes views with a tap or a turn. In portrait view, you can see an entire month or the details of a single day. Rotate iPad to landscape, and you’ll find a list of the day’s activities on one side and your detailed schedule on the other. iPad makes it easy to focus on what you’re doing now, even while you plan for what’s next.
More than just names and numbers.
With iPad, you can do more with your contacts than ever before. Put a photo to a name, so you can find someone at a glance. Add an email address and you can send a message with a tap. Or add birthdays, anniversaries, and important notes to any contact. You can even set a reminder that’s saved to your calendar.
Make it just how you like it.
The Home screen is where you start on iPad. It’s where you’ll find all your applications and folders. It’s where you go to switch between apps by pressing the Home button. And you can make it all your own. Customize your Home screen by adding your favorite apps and websites and organizing them by folders. If you check the same websites every day, create icons that let you access them from your Home screen with a single tap. You can even use one of your favorite photos as the wallpaper. However you customize your Home screen, your iPad will be one of a kind.
Juggle more.
You can do just about anything on your iPad. With multitasking, you can do even more. Be more productive as you work, have more fun as you play, or do a little of both. Everything happens smoothly and efficiently — without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily.*
Make room for more apps.
Thanks to the
App Store, you can choose from over 350,000 apps and games. But these apps can fill your iPad
Home screens pretty quickly. That’s where the new Folders feature comes in. It gives you an easy way to keep your apps organized and declutter your Home screens. And you can launch your favorite apps with a couple of taps.
Printing on tap.
AirPrint on iPad makes it simple to print your email, photos, web pages, and documents. There’s no software to download, no drivers to install, and no cables to connect. With just a few taps on your iPad, you can go from viewing something onscreen to holding a printed copy. And because all the printing takes place in the background, there’s no waiting around. Instead, you can start printing and then go back to flicking through photos, surfing the web, or doing whatever you were doing before.
Watch it here. Watch it there.
All the great media on your iPad — your music, photos, and video — can now stream wirelessly to your HDTV and speakers via the new Apple TV.* That’s perfect when you want to blast some tunes, have a movie night, show off some photos, or share a laugh over the latest surfing pet sensation on YouTube. Just make sure your iPad is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your Apple TV, and the AirPlay icon automatically appears. Then, if you’re in the middle of an epic action scene that could use a little more screen, just tap and it appears on your TV in a matter of seconds.
Social gaming comes to iPad.
Game Center lets friends, and soon-to-be-friends, in on all the action. Invite someone to join, then get a game going. Or choose to go up against people you don’t know, from anywhere around the world, in a multiplayer game. It’s your world. Everyone else is just playing in it.
Search far and wide.
When you’re looking for something specific on your iPad, you’ll find it fast with Spotlight Search. Flick to the right on the main Home screen to open Spotlight, type in a keyword, and search your iPad. Tap any result to go directly to a contact, play a song, open a calendar event, or see your search results in Wikipedia, Yahoo!, Google, or Bing.
Built-in accessibility.
iPad comes with a screen reader, support for playback of closed-captioned content, and other innovative universal access features — right out of the box. There’s no additional software to buy or install. These features make iPad easier to use for people who have a vision impairment, are deaf or hard of hearing, or have a physical or learning disability.
Locate your iPad on a map.
People misplace things all the time. Fortunately, if you lose your iPad, Find My iPad can help. It’s a feature that’s part of MobileMe, but now it’s also free on every iPad with iOS 4.2.
1 Enable Find My iPad in Settings. Then if you misplace your iPad, you can sign in to me.com from any computer web browser or using the Find My iPhone app on another iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to display its approximate location on a map.
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From the App Store
The iWork productivity applications — Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — have been completely redesigned for iPad.
3 So you can create great-looking presentations, documents, and spreadsheets. You can even share them as Microsoft Office files with any Mac or PC user. All using just your fingers.
Two sides to the story.
Download the iBooks app free from the App Store. More than a great ebook reader, it’s also an amazing place to browse and shop for books day or night. Tap the iBooks icon and your bookshelf appears. Tap the Store button and the bookshelf flips around like a secret passageway to reveal the iBookstore, where you can browse tens of thousands of books — many of them free. Browse by title, author, or genre. View what’s featured on the iBookstore, the
New York Times best-seller lists, and more. When you find a book you like, tap it to see more details, peruse reviews, even read a free sample. Download the book and it appears on your bookshelf, ready to read. As your library grows, quickly group books or PDFs into collections to keep your bookshelf neat and organized. Books you download are also available on your iPhone and iPod touch, so you’ll never be without your favorite reads.
iBooks
Get the free iBooks app and start reading books on your iPad today. Visit the App Store
Incredible presentations. Incredibly easy.
Keynote is the powerful presentation app from iWork, completely reworked for iPad and Multi-Touch. So you can do everything on iPad with a tap or drag of your finger — from creating your first slide to presenting your work.
A touch of brilliance for your writing.
Pages for iPad combines robust writing and advanced layout tools with the simplicity of Multi-Touch. So you can create all kinds of documents — including newsletters, reports, brochures, and flyers — using just your fingers. Text is crisp, clear, and very readable on the large, bright iPad screen. And the handy page navigator lets you scroll through your document in thumbnails, so you can quickly jump to any page you want.
Pages
Powerful iWork apps, completely reworked for iPad. Download Pages from the App Store for just $9.99. Visit the App Store
It’s easy to be good with Numbers.
Who knew making spreadsheets could feel so natural? Numbers is the most powerful spreadsheet app designed to work with iPad and Multi-Touch technology. With a few taps, you can create tables and charts, add photos and graphics, and enter and edit data. Numbers isn’t just a spreadsheet application — it’s a flexible canvas. Which means you can add multiple tables and charts anywhere on a sheet and move them wherever you like.
