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After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple's finallyunveiled the iPad. It's a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds,with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it'srunning a custom 1GHz Apple "A4" chip developed by P.A. Semi, with a10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It'll come in 16, 32, and64GB sizes, and it's got the expected connectivity: very little.There's a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth,and 802.11n WiFi. As expected, it can run iPhone apps -- eitherpixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen -- butdevelopers can also target the new screen size using the updated iPhoneOS SDK, which is available today.Apple says there's room for a third device between the smartphoneand the laptop, and that it has to be better at tasks like browsing,email, photos, e-books, and videos than both -- netbooks, says Steve,"aren't better at anything." It looks just like the leak we saw, with alarge touchscreen keyboard that Steve says is "a dream to type on," andan interface that's very reminiscent of the iPhone, although it'ssignificantly expanded and altered. The built-in apps are much moreMac-like than iPhone-like, with versions of iPhoto and iTunes that looklike touch-oriented versions of their desktop counterparts. There'salso some built-in location services that lets the Map app auto-locate.Obviously the iTunes store is built-in for previewing and buying media.