Apple's iPad tablet computer has gone on sale in the Republic of Ireland today. Up to 70 people queued outside Compu b, near Dublin's Grafton Street, but queues were not as large as those in the UK when the product went on sale there earlier in the Summer.
The iPad ranges in price from €499, with a 16GB memory and WiFi capability, to €799 for an iPad with a 64GB memory and both WiFi and 3G capability.
It went on sale in Ireland, Hong Kong, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore this morning.
Irish consumers can buy the iPad through Apple authorised re-sellers or online. While retailers say trade is brisk, the product has not sold out.
The iPad allows users to watch video, listen to music, play games, surf the web or read electronic books.
Earlier this week, Apple said it sold 3.27 million iPads during the three months to June 26, having started selling the computer only in April.
White iPhone 4 delayed
Customers will not be able to get their hands on Apple white iPhone 4 until later this year, the company said on Friday, conceding that making the model has proven surprisingly difficult.
Apple, in a brief statement, said that its black iPhone 4 had not been affected. As for the white iPhone, the company said it has ‘continued to be more challenging to manufacture that we originally expected’.
Apple did not provide further details in its statement or give a precise date when the white model would be available.
The newest iPhone, while selling quickly, has created a series of headaches for Apple, the biggest being the suggestion that its design was flawed because of a problem with the antenna.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, at a rare press conference last week, defended the smartphone, but offered consumers free phone cases to address reception complaints.
