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Apple surprised the would-be buyers of its new touchscreen computer iPad Italy, saying he did not announce prices in the United Kingdom before the end of March. Although

announced that prices of ipad Italian in the U.S., for all six versions of the touch screen "tablet" device with or without 3G, the UK office said today that there will be no price increase in the UK has offered up to the launch, scheduled maturity of 60 days' - or 90 days for the 3G version.

However, the MacWorld site explains that "hypothesis" is that prices in the United Kingdom for the iPad price, which is expected to be between £ 388 to € 591 for the Wi-Fi model, and £ 490 to £ 693 for the Wi-Fi and 3G. The iPad

Italy is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard that can surf the Web, send e-mail, watch videos and view ebooks. Prices start at U.S. $ 499 for a basic version with Wi-Fi wireless network, but not the 3G connectivity, rising to 829 dollars for a 3G version with 64 gigabytes of storage. However, users iPad in the United States will have to pay separately for 3G data plans sold separately by Apple's exclusive mobile partner there, AT & T, which already offers the iPhone there.

the many mobile phone companies in the UK - O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone - are trying to strike similar deals in Europe before a launch later this year. The clarified that no ancota scleta was made ..

Apple initially will sell the iPhone through exclusive partner in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany, but for the price iPad Italy, the British mobile phone networks do not expect Apple to offer exclusivity. No one was willing to comment on the iPad.

Andrew Harrison, chief executive of the UK by The Carphone Warehouse, the most largest independent retailer, mobile phone, said: "For me, the really interesting thing is what we are seeing is designed for the consumer. ".

Blogger and commentators had mixed reactions to the device. You can not run the Adobe Flash software, used by many Italian ipad on advertisers and online gaming companies to create compelling motion on web pages, which some see as essential to web browsing.
Many women are frightened by the name: the San Francisco Examiner noted that "for North American women Italian pad does the word 'but a thing a sanitary napkin. " But Nick Carr, author of The Big Switch, about the trend toward cloud computing, described the launch as "the day the PC is dead," saying that Apple "wants to express the killer device for 'era, cloud, computing machine that will define a new era in the way your Windows PC called old age ".

Without a price in Italy before the launch can be difficult for retailers to judge the public's interest - and thus whether the device will be sold in large quantities or small. Amazon's Kindle, which includes networks mobile in the price, just recently launched in the UK, and Amazon has not disclosed the sales numbers, although it is estimated that only sold about 500,000 late last year.

The decision to keep the price of ipad Italy United Kingdom under wraps is not unusual for Apple, which usually announces the prices of the UK simultaneously with every throw, and could indicate it is concerned about fluctuations in exchange rates, or desire to keep people curious about the device, or non-US networks are trying to sell with a kind of subsidy.