---By Taimur Asad, RedmondPie.com

Apple iPad was unveiled by Steve Jobs yesterday in a mega event held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In a nutshell, the iPad is a larger iPod touch with an additional iBooks Store and iWorks suite of apps. With iBooks, Apple is surely taking Amazon’s Kindle head-on with their own offering – the iPad, which besides reading, can do things like playing games, access social networks, display photos, videos, web browsing and a hell of alot more.

So which one are you going to go for? A versatile mobile devices or an e-book reader with no distraction?

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