Apple’s New iPad Craze Continues: Queues In Malaysia And Korea

Posted on Apr 20 2012 - 7:01am by Editorial Staff

As Apple announced last week that the new iPad, will arrive in South Korea and 11 additional countries on Friday, April 20. In addition to South Korea, the new iPad also will be available beginning on Friday, April 20 in Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela. Beginning on Friday, April 27, the new iPad will be available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand, seeing brisk interest in the tablet device in Korea and Malaysia, which were the first to get the gadget.

AFP reports that first in line at KT was university student Lim Jun-Hong, 21, who slept overnight on the pavement to be the first to get his hands on the tablet. “Got my new iPad! Hooray!” wrote one Twitter user. Apple is selling the gadget with WiFi at 620,000 won ($545) to 860,000 won ($755), depending on memory size. The cost is slightly higher for models with both WiFi and 4G.

Images via @bobofgold, the AFP, @nashman and @ivangan

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