iPad on Show

The Apple iPad is in national TV appearances and last night appeared on David Letterman's Late night talk show.

Steve Jobs and iPad

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the iPad are set to be the cover story for the upcoming issue of Time, and as part of the coverage, British actor/comedian Stephen Fry describes his visit to Apple headquarters to learn about and play with the iPad, as well as to meet Jobs himself. Yesterday, Fry posted a video of the unpacking of his iPad and associated accessories.

In January Apple keynote, Steve was holding this iPad and showing it to the world. In two days, many people can get a hands on this great new toy.

iPad is in UPS

All the iPad are picked up from ShenZhen, China by UPS. Now, people see status in UPS tracking as "Exception". It means UPS is holding all iPad and not ship them to the front doors till April 3rd.

iPad shipped

Today, people saying they got email message "Shipped" from Apple. It was shipped through UPS. Since the arrival day is Saturday, April 3, which is right before Easter. People may go out to visit relatives for Easter and not at home to wait iPad package.

One person warried about the package containing iPad and saying

"Hope there are no thieves... with all these Apple packages going out and people away visiting relatives. They would just have to sit in your yard pretending to tend the bushes or something. "

Hopefully, it is a signature required delivery from UPS so iPad not gets lost. UPS website is going to be flooded with iPad customers hitting the refresh button all day long between now and Saturday to check shipping status.

People are receiving tracking update - "Origin Scan: Shenzhen, CN". It is shpped from a city in south of China - Shenzhen. It is a long way to go, from China to US.

iPad is coming in two weeks

We have used iPod Touch for a while and like it very much. The iPad is far more than a Touch in almost all ways. First of all, the only valid comparison of screen sizes has to be based on the number of square inches of screen surface of both -- not the diagonal measurement of the two screens, which does't tell the entire story at all. So, the screen size of iPad is much bigger than iPod Touch. We pre-order one 32GB iPad WiFi version in Apple Online Store and look forward to getting it on April 3rd. For many of people, the iPad is a new and very exciting device from which we can move into the future and not be stuck in the past.

A Great Product - Solar Charger for iPhone or iPod Touch

Today, there is a news telling us about this great new product for charging iPhone or iPod Touch with Solar energy.

With this product, we will never worry about running out of battery when we are away from home. This product comes with a build-in battery. It may be a good product when my iPod Touch battery die in two years so I don't have to replace iPod Touch battery. I wish they will have a product can be used to charge iPad too.

It is called Surge Solar charger. Here is the link to this product:
http://www.novothink.com/products/

iPad pre order started now

Starting 7:30am(central time), Apple stores started to take pre orders for iPad. These days, people are discussing this and trying to find out when they can get it. Here is the answer and the word from Apple store:"iPad pre-order limit: two per customer. If Saturday delivery is not available in your area, iPad will be delivered on April 5."