With all the speculations about this newly announced device, will it carry the name iSlate? Wrong! Apple did some very creative thinking about this! They called there new product the iPad! The device looks beautiful in all its simplicity. This device will be the new flagship to read e-books, watching movies and surfing the internet. No keyboard is required its all touch sensitive.

The current specs are currently listed on the Apple website some of the highlights:

• 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
• 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
• Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
• Accelerometer
• Built-in speakers
• 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip
• 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive
• Support for 1024 x 768 with Dock Connector to VGA adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Composite A/V Cable, 576i and 480i with Apple Composite A/V Cable
• H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

The starting model is currently listed for 499 dollars. Lets all hope they won’t do there normal conversion trick for the european people over here… (499 dollar to 499 euro conversion)