Apple dishes new iPad details on 3G, iBooks, more →
https://marco.org/2010/03/12/apple-dishes-new-ipad-details-on-3g-ibooks-more
Most notably:
- There’s a hardware rotation-lock switch above the volume rocker. (thanks, David Chartier)
- VoiceOver can read any book’s text aloud in iBooks. Apple must have cleared that with all publishers as part of the standard iBooks distribution deal.
- The iPad plays AVI files with Motion-JPEG video. This is the format used by many consumer-level digital cameras when recording video clips. Given the iPad’s camera-card-reader attachment, this is almost certainly the reason for AVI-MJPEG support.