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Hundreds of customers lined up on Friday at Apple stores as the new iPad went on sale in tech-savvy South Korea, about one month after it made its international debut.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four of Apple’s stores in Seoul opened early to sell the tablet computer<\/strong>, and there were also queues outside branches in the city of network providers KT and SK Telecom, the two distributors of iPhones and iPads.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“Got my new iPad! Hooray!” wrote one Twitter user.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

South Korean users, at least for now, will use 3G instead of 4G. The faster connection speed is currently unavailable locally due to differences in frequencies.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, Apple’s biggest rival worldwide, introduced its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in February last year, only four months after launching the series.<\/p>\n

Apple’s latest iPad has a more powerful processor and a screen resolution called retina display, which it says is the sharpest ever on a mobile device.<\/p>\n

The company said it sold three million over the course of its first weekend on the market last month.<\/p>\n

The latest iPad is also going on sale in 10 other countries on Friday and Apple says it plans for the best-selling tablet to be available in more than 50 nations by the end of the month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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