Queen orders Apple's iPad2 after Prince William and Harry show her gadget

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:33 AM on 10th May 2011

 Technology fan: The Queen is said to have ordered an iPad2

The Queen has joined the millions of people around the world hooked on the latest technology and ordered her own iPad2, it emerged today.

Prince William and Harry, who both own versions of the device, reportedly introduced their grandmother to the tablet-style computer.

The 85-year-old monarch is said to have been so impressed with the touch screen device that she immediately ordered staff to buy her one.

She hopes to use the popular computer for long journeys around the country when she is inside the Royal car or train.

'The Princes think it is hilarious. They love the fact that their gran wants an iPad and think she's really cool,' a source told the Sun.

'For a woman of her age, she is very switched on. It was only a matter of time before she asked someone to go and get her one.'

It is said that when the princes showed their grandmother the device, she was taken with how easy it was to use. The lightness of the iPad2 and the large screen were also big attractions to her.

The Queen has owned iPods since they were introduced several years ago. In 2005 she bought a state-of-the-art model capable of holding 1,500 of her favourite songs.

She also received an iPod as a gift from Barack Obama when he visited London in 2009.

But the iPad, which has developed by Apple, has taken the technology world by storm since it was first released in April 2010.

An iPad2 was released in March this year. A staggering 15 million devices have so far been sold worldwide.

The Queen already has a mobile phone and internet connections so adapting to the gadget, which allows game, applications and web-browsing, will be easy for her.

Popular: Some 15 million copies of the iPad2 have been sold worldwide since the gadget was release in March this year

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Gadget freaks' new fetish - iPad2

Gadget freaks' new fetish - iPad2Priyanka Joshi / Mumbai?April 07, 2011, 0:29 IST

As the original iPad has completed a year, its new version — iPad2 — has taken the Indian market by storm. Launched on March 25 in 26 countries across the globe — it was launched in the US earlier — the tablet PC is certainly the hottest gadget around. Or that’s what it seems with the demand it has generated in the Indian grey market.

Mumbai’s gadget freaks found Apple’s latest tablet PC — yet to be launched in India — at the Heera Panna market. Even eBay, the online auction site, sports several listings of iPad2, also offering to home-deliver the device for prices starting at Rs 36,000.

If grey market suppliers are to be believed, there are thousands of fans who have already bought their iPad2 and iPhone 4. A retailer, who owns four electronics shops in Hyderabad’s Jagdish market, says, “We are selling 5-6 iPad2 every week. Even the original iPad, before its launch, sold just 2-3 units a week.”

In New Delhi’s Palika Bazaar, an electronics store offered a second hand iPad 2 — on claims that it was barely used it for a few days — for Rs 33,000.

The newest iPad is touted to be thinner, faster and features a pair of cameras for video chat. Apple has kept the starting price of both, iPad and iPad2, at $499.

Anticipating the Indian demand, online sellers Prateek and Hitesh who sell electronics products on eBay, pre-ordered five iPad2 tablet PCs from the US at the time of the launch. “We sold our first iPad2 in India to a buyer in Gujarat for Rs 46,000 (32-GB model). We now have seven iPad2 sourced from Singapore that we intend to sell online,” they added.

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Gadget freaks' new fetish - iPad2

Gadget freaks' new fetish - iPad2Priyanka Joshi / Mumbai?April 07, 2011, 0:29 IST

As the original iPad has completed a year, its new version — iPad2 — has taken the Indian market by storm. Launched on March 25 in 26 countries across the globe — it was launched in the US earlier — the tablet PC is certainly the hottest gadget around. Or that’s what it seems with the demand it has generated in the Indian grey market.

Mumbai’s gadget freaks found Apple’s latest tablet PC — yet to be launched in India — at the Heera Panna market. Even eBay, the online auction site, sports several listings of iPad2, also offering to home-deliver the device for prices starting at Rs 36,000.

If grey market suppliers are to be believed, there are thousands of fans who have already bought their iPad2 and iPhone 4. A retailer, who owns four electronics shops in Hyderabad’s Jagdish market, says, “We are selling 5-6 iPad2 every week. Even the original iPad, before its launch, sold just 2-3 units a week.”

In New Delhi’s Palika Bazaar, an electronics store offered a second hand iPad 2 — on claims that it was barely used it for a few days — for Rs 33,000.

The newest iPad is touted to be thinner, faster and features a pair of cameras for video chat. Apple has kept the starting price of both, iPad and iPad2, at $499.

Anticipating the Indian demand, online sellers Prateek and Hitesh who sell electronics products on eBay, pre-ordered five iPad2 tablet PCs from the US at the time of the launch. “We sold our first iPad2 in India to a buyer in Gujarat for Rs 46,000 (32-GB model). We now have seven iPad2 sourced from Singapore that we intend to sell online,” they added.

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Nintendo 3DS and iPad2 make for record gadget day

The Nintendo hand-held games console, the first product to promise to give users a full three dimensional experience without the need to wear glasses, has already become the most pre-ordered games gadget in Amazon's history.

The website, Britain's biggest online retailer, said that it had received more orders for the gadget than any other console, with 71 per cent more orders than for Sony's PlayStation 3 in 2007 and 123 per cent more than for the hugely popular Nintendo Wii, which went on to sell more than six million units in Britain.

Nintendo, the Japanese manufacturer, said that it had already sold 141,000 of the 3D product before its official launch at one minute past midnight on early Friday morning, despite many reviewers saying the 3D effects were not that impressive. That figure is more than the entire amount of 3D televisions sold last year in Britain.

Currys on Oxford Street, London as well as Black, owned by Dixons Retail, in Birmingham will open at midnight to sell the ￡179 product.

Unusually, the launch is on the same day as a major new product from Apple hits the market. The iPad 2, the slimmer, faster version of the tablet computer, which first went on sale last year, is expected to sell particularly well because it is priced at ￡399 for the basic model, ￡30 less than for the equivalent model a year ago.

Kat Hannaford, the contributing editor of Gizmodo, the technology website, said: "I can't remember a day like this, when two such big hardware products went on sale at the same time. Apple is obviously the biggest player in the industry, but Nintendo's 3DS has really taken off in other countries and is likely to be pretty huge here."

She added that the slowdown in consumer confidence was hitting sales of some of the smaller electronics products, but the big names would continue to do well. "Consumers are becoming more discerning, but if a gadget promises to deliver something that nothing else can, it will sell well."

Chris Poad, director of video games at Amazon.co.uk, said: "It’s unusual for a hand-held console to attract this amount of excitement in the run up to launch, such high levels of interest are normally reserved for the play-at-home hardware like the ground-breaking Nintendo Wii and last year’s Microsoft Kinect.

"Nintendo 3DS is launching at a time when interest in all things 3D is incredibly high and with the promise of real 3D graphics without glasses, it’s a real breakthrough in hand-held video game entertainment."

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