<p><br /> Apple's iPad is finally on sale in the UK after a delay due to the gadget's popularity in the United States.<br /> </p><p><br /> The eagerly-anticipated touch-screen computer allows users to send emails, read novels, draw pictures and play games.<br /> </p><p><br /> It will go on sale from £429 for the basic version to £699 for a model with Wi-Fi and 3G network access.<br /> </p><p><br /> Apple stores across the UK opened an hour earlier at 8am to sell the iPad, with queues of shoppers overnight.<br /> </p><p><br /> First in line outside Apple's flagship shop in Regent Street, London, was Jake Lee, 17, from Theydon Bois in Essex.<br /> </p><p><br /> He said: "I just came down for the atmosphere, and I don't think I could have waited. I'm a gadget lover."<br /> </p><p><br /> Currys and PC World will also stock the device at 139 stores.<br /> </p><p><br /> However the launch has been overshadowed by 11 suspected employee suicides at the Chinese factory which makes the iPad amid reports of oppressive conditions.<br /> </p><p><br /> Apple said it would independently investigate the deaths at Foxconn, which also supplies electronic products for Dell and Hewlett-Packard.<br /> </p><p><br /> The company sold more than one million iPads in the US in the first 100 days after the April launch, making it a faster seller than the iPhone.<br /> </p>
