New iPad coming to India on April 27th, starts at Rs.30,500

Apple has just announced that the New iPad would be available in India on 27th April 2012. The New iPad would be available in South Korea incuding Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela on Friday, April 20. It will be available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand on beginning on Friday, April 27.

The base 16GB WiFi model of the New iPad will be available for Rs.30,500 including taxes and the base 16GB WiFi+4G Model will be available for Rs.38,900.

Prices for the new iPad Wi-Fi : 16GB Rs. 30500, 32GB Rs. 36500, 64GB Rs. 42500.

Wi-Fi +4G : 16GB Rs. 38900, 32GB Rs. 44900, 64GB Rs. 50900

Apple to launch iOS 5 TVs this year

In the entertainment business Apple is a key player by both providing the hardware to watch and listen to content as well as operating the most popular digital content distribution service in the world. But its reach may soon go beyond smartphones, tablets, and computers. According to one former Apple executive, the company is hoping your next TV purchase will carry an Apple logo too.

The exectuive wishes to remain anonymous, but has stated that Apple is looking to release a range of TVs that run on iOS later this year. That means iOS 5 and access to the App Store and iTunes on the big screen from the comfort of your sofa.

In so doing, Apple would effectively bypass all other services targeting your TV screen such as Netflix, Xbox Live, and cable networks in general. By giving you a TV with access to its own digital store out the box, why would you need to go anywhere else for content?

Rather than developing a line of TVs on its own Apple is expected to partner with an established TV manufacturer that already has the links into retail and the factories to make the sets. That way Apple could sell the TVs through its own stores and online while also seeing them appear at the more typical home electronics outlets. At the same time, the partner would benefit from a potentially lucrative manufacturing contract with Apple even though it is competing against it at retail with its own products.

Although the ex-Apple exectuive believes we could see the TVs announced in September alongside the iPhone 5, it could be next year before they appear if development doesn’t go according to plan. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard suggestion of Apple building their own TV with talk of a “smart TV” in development earlier this year.