Apple launched iPad in U.S. some time ago , and already sold over one million iPads and customers have downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store, as well as over 1.5 million ebooks .
If you live outside the U.S. the you won’t have to wait too much longer before you can get your hands on some sweet, sweet iPad action. May 28 is the newly announced international availability date, but it won’t be a worldwide release.
Nine countries will get the iPad on the 28th, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. An additional nine will get it sometime in July, including Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore. Further release dates will be announced later.

Apple’s staged release means either that it planned on selling far fewer iPads than have gone out the door, or that negotiating deals regarding content licensing and 3G wireless provision is taking longer than expected. A third possibility is that Apple is just making countries wait in order to drive demand up, but at this point I would think demand is well-stoked in most areas.
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It seems like it would be pretty thin. so it seems kind of like regular headphones wouldn’t be able to plug into it.
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iPad is a cool gadget but the price is a little bit too high!
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