If you are an Apple fan, the iPad is something of a dream-turned-reality for you. On the flipside, the launch of this new revolutionary tablet PC hasn’t marked a happy new year for Amazon’s. Here’s putting Apple’s iPad toe-to-toe against Amazon’s Kindle.

Amongst all phases of technological progress, perhaps the current times stand out as a revolutionary stage. Apple’s latest brainchild, the iPad, has created major shock waves amongst tech-savvy gadget enthusiasts and critics alike.

The much awaited iPad – which according to Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is a cross between smart-phones and touch-tablets – has hit the markets and has grabbed attention fast.

Including a bigger and better LCD touch-screen measuring 25 cm with a 1024 × 768 pixel resolution, the Apple iPad is certainly a leap ahead of its cousins, the iTouch & the iPhone.

Be it a gadget guru or an average appreciator of technological wonders, the iPad has been the latest talk of the town amongst one and all. Loaded with a chain of smooth & trendy features and gorgeous looks, it seems as yet another trend-setter from Apple.

Since earlier this year, with the iPad now raging through the gadget arena, Apple might well have unleashed a whole new era in the field of portable computing.

But Apple’s sales are still rolling with the iPhone, the iPad’s ancestral success formula. With its 3G and SGS models also widespread by now, the 3 generations of the iPhone reign on.

On the eve of iPad’s product launch, Steve Jobs claimed his striking new brainchild to be a missing link between an average smartphone and a laptop/netbook, something that would serve as a traveller’s or an office-goer’s pride.

January 2010 opened up yet another portal for a revolutionary technological up-gradation, courtesy Apple. Its new tablet PC release has surely stirred up the market, nabbing almost everyone’s attention instantly.

What Steve Jobs claims to “stand on the shoulders” of all competition including Amazon’s Kindle, is marking its territory fast in the gadget jungle, and is called the iPad.

Experts and critics alike have placed the iPad in a direct head-to-head fight against the Kindle, highlighting its multi-purpose properties and utilities plus the additional e-reader supplement to be its key strengths.

As the iPad marches on into the markets at blitzkrieg speeds, Apple assures that it is going to bring about a revolution in the way people perceive a Tablet PC, thus posing stiff competition for all the other players in the game.

In a bid to trash out all competition in the Tablet PC market, Apple announced the arrival its new baby, the iPad. But with numerous acclaims and criticisms simultaneously spread on the Web, it is a bit hard to decide on whether or not to spend on owning one.