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Apple Tweaks Ipad Just In Time For Pre Orders

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by Charlie Sorrel, for Wired.com
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Mar 12 2010 12:40pm EDT

Apple Tweaks iPad Just in Time for Pre-Orders

Wired reports: As we comb through the updated Apple website for more iPad-related clues, up pops a new picture detailing the physical buttons on the iPad.

Now, in addition to the sleep/wake, home and volume buttons familiar to iPhone users, there is a new button named screen rotation lock.

And thank God. One of the most annoying things about the auto-rotating iPhone screen is the way it flips into landscape mode if you lie down while reading.

Some apps have a preference setting to switch this off, but we’d much rather have a hardware switch. Hopefully this will come to this year’s new iPhones and iPod Touches, too.

Apple began taking pre-orders today. The Wi-Fi version can be picked up in stores April 3.

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