Hundreds of customers lined up Friday at Apple stores as the new iPad
went on sale in tech-savvy South Korea, about one month after it made
its international debut.
Four of Apple's stores in Seoul opened
early to sell the tablet computer, and there were also queues outside
branches in the city of network providers KT and SK Telecom, the two
distributors of iPhones and iPads.
First in line at KT was
university student Lim Jun-Hong, 21, who slept overnight on the pavement
to be the first to get his hands on the tablet.
"Got my new iPad! Hooray!" wrote one Twitter user.
Apple
is selling the gadget with WiFi at 620,000 won ($545) to 860,000 won
($755), depending on memory size. The cost is slightly higher for models
with both WiFi and 4G.
South Korean users, at least for now, will
use 3G instead of 4G. The faster connection speed is currently
unavailable locally due to differences in frequencies.
South
Korea's Samsung Electronics, Apple's biggest rival worldwide, introduced
its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in February last year, only four months after
launching the series.
Apple's latest iPad has a more powerful
processor and a screen resolution called retina display, which it says
is the sharpest ever on a mobile device.
The company said it sold three million over the course of its first weekend on the market last month.
The
latest iPad is also going on sale in 10 other countries on Friday and
Apple says it plans for the best-selling tablet to be available in more
than 50 nations by the end of the month.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
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