Steve Jobs announced the new iPad 2 on March 2, 2011. The Apple iPad 2 will be available on 11 March 2011 in the US in both black and white color.

iPad 2 Price same as the first iPad

The prices for new iPad 2 priced at the same level as the first generation iPad starting from US$499. Here’s the US prices all the models of iPad 2 …

iPad 2 Singapore Price

At the time of writing, there is no official annoucement on the iPad 2 Singapore pricing yet. However, it is not hard to guess how much the each model of the iPad 2 will cost in Singapore.

Steve Jobs announced that the price of the new iPad 2 will be similar to that of the first generation iPad. So we could just assume the Singapore prices to remain the same.

[Updated on 12 May 2011]SingTel iPad 2 would be available from 14 May 2011. The cheapest iPad 2 model offered by SingTel starts at SGD399 when purchase with a 24 months data plan contract at SGD40 per month.

[Updated on 29 April 2011]The table below shows the prices of various of models iPad 2 at Singapore Apple Store.

**Prices in Singapore Dollar

The price of the older iPad has dropped significantly. You could get the iPad 16GB for S$538, down from S$728 at the Apple Store (Singapore).

You can buy iPad 2 online at Apple Singapore online store.

White iPad 2 & Colorful Smart Covers

Initial Reactions to the 1st generation iPad

Apple sold 15 millions iPads in the first 9 months of the initial launch in April 2010 and generated US$9.5 billions in revenue.

When I first viewed Steve Job’s keynote announcing the iPad and discovered about the affordable iPad price, my reaction posted on Facebook was…

“iPad… Why only $499? I want it now!”

“if you have an iPhone, Life Will Not be Complete Without the iPad!”

However, I also discovered that not everyone loves Apple products. Some of my Facebook friends said:

“iPad, No Multitasking, No Buy”

“guess it is just like iPhone .. just BIGGER”

“The iPad (the name is soooo =_=|||) is disappointing. No SD card slot, no drag-drop, no USB port, no flash (!), no camera…a whole lot of new accessories to buy. Will wait for the Android-powered tablets, Asus is coming up with one soon.”

MrBrown thinks “Apple’s iPad is a giant iPod Touch“.

And people are already mocking at the iPad – the other kind of pad?!

What do you have to say about the iPad?

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I will be going to the PC Show 2009 today at Suntec City Singapore to get some gadgets I have always wanted… Here’s my shopping list:

Yes. I am buying the

- iPod Touch
- external HDD (will check out both the WD My Book World Edition 1 TB and the Buffalo Linkstation Pro Duo)

and thinking of adding Creative Gigaworks T3 to my collection of speakers – I already have 3 sets of speakers big and small.

So what are you going to buy at this year PC Show?

A new MacBook Pro? A new smartphone e.g. HTC Magic? Or a super slim and lightweight 10″ Netbook?