iPad frenzy heating up towards launch, still a US only affair…

The iPad: More than just an over-sized iPhone

Apple has just posted some Guided Tours for its upcom­ing iPad. The tours show that the iPad is no toy and it’s cer­tainly not just an over-sized iPhone or iPod Touch. This device has heaps of poten­tial and its pop­u­lar­ity can only make it bet­ter. There are lit­er­ally hun­dreds of thou­sands of apps in the App­Store for just about any­thing and the only thing that was lim­it­ing devel­op­ers from cre­at­ing more capa­ble apps was the form fac­tor and power of the iPhone/iPod Touch. The with the 9.7″ dis­play of the iPad, cou­pled with the power of the device and teamed up with heavy com­pe­ti­tion to deliver good apps, it’s clear that we’ll start see­ing some mighty awe­some things soon. Kotaku has posted a list of 50 games that will be avail­able for the iPad at launch. Engad­get has also posted an arti­cle show­ing some more pow­er­ful apps that show that the iPad is way more than just an over-grown iPhone.

Unfor­tu­nately though, the iPad is cur­rently only going to be in the US. No other firm dates have offi­cially been set for other regions. For Aus­tralia, UK and the like, the release is in “late April”, so for now we have to wait. Hope­fully by May we’ll have a shot at it.

I see a lot of poten­tial in this, a lot of poten­tial. It is appar­ent that the iPad is already chang­ing the shape of the world… It’s now a lit­tle more oval…