Lest you might possibly ‘forget’ to order your beautiful magical device tomorrow, we have the timings here to help, courtesy of Apple of course.
The iPad 2 will go on sale at all 236 US Apple retail locations at 5 p.m. on Friday March 11, 2010. You will also be able purchase from AT&T, Best Buy, Target, Verizon Wireless and Walmart as well as selected Apple resellers. If you prefer to order online you will be able to do this starting at 1 a.m. Pacific, 4 a.m. Eastern.
A Personal Setup service is being provided at each Apple store for every customer that buys an iPad 2. Ensuring your iPad 2 meets your needs before you leave the store.
Apple also mentioned that iMovie and GarageBand will be available for the iPad in the App Store today but we can’t see them yet. Each will retail for $4.99.
Prices
The iPad 2 with Wi-Fi starts at $499 for the 16GB and reaches $599 for the 32GB and $699 for the 64GB. The Wi-Fi + 3G model starts at $629 for the base model and moves up to $729 for the 32GB and attains a price of $829 for the 64GB. The prices are the same either on the Verizon or AT&T networks.
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said.
Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London.
Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art.
Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK.
She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]