Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs showing off the iPad for the first time in 2010.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET)
Two years ago today, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs took to the stageto unveil what was perhaps one of the most-rumored devices the company had ever concocted.
The iPad, or as it had been imagined the "iSlate," was unveiled this day in 2010 at an intimate event in downtown San Francisco. The tablet was pitched as a new category of device that would fit between a smartphone and a notebook, while presenting distinct advantages.
"It's so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smartphone," Jobs said.
In the run up to the event, speculation reached new heights over what exactly Apple would announce. The world had settled on the fact that it would be a tablet, but the details on what that would entail were all over the place.
Price estimates ranged from $500 to $2,000. Reports surfaced on components, including the suggestion that Apple was planning to use OLED screens (it didn't). There was even this "spy shot" of a very un-iPad-like device doubling as a phone.
What we got was a 9.7-inch touch-screen tablet with Apple's A4 processor and running iOS. It was the first such device in Apple's lineup to use one of Apple's A-line chips, which the company later ended up using in the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV set-top box.
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