Apple launches iPad tablet computer

Journalists line up outside Yerba Buena Arts Centre in San Francisco for the launch of the Apple iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk The gadget eveyone's been waiting on … Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new iPad tablet computer at the launch event in San Francisco Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Steve Jobs navigates the New York Times website on the new iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Steve Jobs shows off the keypad on the iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Apple CEO Steve Jobs - in characteristic jeans and sneakers - settles down to demonstrate the iPad's functions during the launch in San Francisco Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Jobs demonstrates the new iPad's capabilities Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Photograph: Justin Sullivan/guardian.co.uk The new iPad is half an inch thick, and weighs 1.5lbs (0.7kg). It uses a chip designed by the team from PA Semi, which Apple bought in 2008 Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Photograph: Justin Sullivan/guardian.co.uk 'I could fly from San Francisco to Tokyo on one charge' – Steve Jobs on the iPad's battery life Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Photograph: Justin Sullivan/guardian.co.uk Jobs shows just how easy it is to turn pages on the iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Jobs introduces some of the publishing houses that will supply ebooks for the iBooks program on the iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Phil Schiller, senior vice president of marketing for Apple, introduces the iWork publishing application for the iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Jobs demonstrate's the iPad's movie-playing capabilities with a clip from Pixar's animated film Up Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Chad Evans, from MLB.com, demonstrates how the iPad can stream live baseball broasdcasts Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Jobs talks about the price points for the new iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk An event guest plays with the new keyboard on a Apple iPad Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Photograph: Justin Sullivan/guardian.co.uk A video game is displayed on Apple's iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Guests feel the weight of the iPad Photograph: John G. Mabanglo/Epa Photograph: John G. Mabanglo/guardian.co.uk Google Maps is shown on an iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk An Apple iPad that is docked in a keyboard Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Photograph: Justin Sullivan/guardian.co.uk People can't get enough hands on the iPad Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters Photograph: Kimberly White/guardian.co.uk Apple iPad is examined during its launch Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photograph: Marcio Jose Sanchez/guardian.co.uk Guest plays with the Apple iPad during the launch event Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Photograph: Justin Sullivan/guardian.co.uk