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.

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.

The Apple iPad will finally go on sale in NZ on Friday with recommended retail prices of $799 to $1349 , the company has announced.

Have you heard? iPhone 4 has a reception issue when you hold the phone a certain way.

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.

There's always a backlash that gets picked up by the legions of Apple haters who gleefully spread negative stories far and wide, writes Mark Webster.

'If the iTunes account hacking part is true, then Apple really needs to step in and fix this,' wrote one.

A library in your handbag? Cheaper reading? The salvation of newspapers? Digital publishing promises all that and more. But, reports Karyn Scherer, the future isn't quite here yet.

Apple admitted that iPhones overestimate their signal strength by up to two bars.

Hallelujah! The new iPhone is thinner, faster, and easier to get a grip on – and the battery lasts

Apple's mobile operating system, iOS4, is now available through iTunes for iPhone and iPod Touch - iPad users will have to wait.