This is no plasticky toy - it's solid, sleek and slick, yet also very thin. And the screen looks lovely.

Apple's iPhone 4 has finally gone on sale in New Zealand after a spectacular launch fail this morning.

Vodafone has now announced that it will be selling limited numbers of the iPhone 4 from midday.

The whole iPhone 4 launch in New Zealand has descended into a surreal mix of blame and outright confusion.

Apple has gone nuts overnight, releasing a host of new machines, plus a couple of interesting new peripherals.

There was no mad rush at one of Auckland's biggest Apple dealers as the much-hyped iPad went on sale this morning.

After hyping up the launch of its iPad in New Zealand for Friday, Apple has ignored consumers in the provinces.

You can browse the web, send emails, listen to music and watch films but the iPad is a powerful computer. What else can you do with it?

The iPad is officially available throughout NZ today and users will have the chance to get a free download of a new Herald iPad application to go with it.

Apple haters might take pleasure in the fact that it's costing the company about NZ$244 million to give out thousands of iPhone buyers free bumper cases.

Vodafone will offer month-by-month data plans for Apple's iPad when it hits NZ stores tomorrow.

The iPad officially arrives tomorrow, but people have been able to buy the tablet computer locally since May - at a cost.

The long wait is almost over for technophiles but mystery surrounds the release of the Apple iPad due to hit stores here this week.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apologised to iPhone 4 buyers about its reception issues and offered free cases to help rectify the problem.

Macs are easy to use, so everyone says, and indeed, that's how I found them when a mate introduced me to them back at the beginning of 1988.

It's emerged that a senior engineer and antenna expert at Apple had told management last year that the iPhone 4's design may cause reception problems.

Apple will hold a press conference to talk about the troubled iPhone 4 - but remains tight-lipped on what it will discuss.

It's not often you get three ex Mac magazine editors together in one room - but it happened this week. Virtually, anyway.

The test of a company can often be how it responds in the face of adversity, so it will be fascinating to watch Apple over the coming days and weeks.

The new iPhone is being marketed on its ability to make video calls. Will it's FaceTime app finally succeed where its predecessors failed?

Apple's iOS4 lock-down may cost it in the smartphone market, the same way its 'no clone' policy hit it in the 1990s.

The iPad is supposed to launch in New Zealand in late - but there's still no official word on exactly when.