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It's a giant iPhone: the iPad
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might as well merge with the pvp comic thread.
Way cheaper than I thought it would be. I love that they have a docking keyboard for it already. This will probably be my next computer.
Yeah, I did not expect that. It looks really damn nice. Love the prepaid 3G stuff through ATT. Cheap. Should be interesting to see how this works out. Isn't powerful enough for anything I do but I could see my wife using it.
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499 base for 16gigs. Extra 100 for 32 and another 100 for 64 gigs. Add 130 to that if you want built in 3g support.
It's not a computer
It's not a computer[/QUOTE]
I could see some people using this as their computer. You can buy music/movies directly from it, there's a word processor, it has email, web browser, and you can buy a keyboard for it. Space would be the only issue.
It's not a computer[/QUOTE]
I could see some people using this as their computer. You can buy music/movies directly from it, there's a word processor, it has email, web browser, and you can buy a keyboard for it. Space would be the only issue.[/QUOTE]
Yup.
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It's not a computer[/QUOTE]
I could see some people using this as their computer. You can buy music/movies directly from it, there's a word processor, it has email, web browser, and you can buy a keyboard for it. Space would be the only issue.[/QUOTE]
Yup.[/QUOTE]
So what, you can run Office on it?
Probably not Office right away but it seems to run iWork. I like the idea of using this for presentations.
iWork, which can open and save Office documents.
So you still have to carry a phone around with this? You would think a 3g device would only need a bluetooth headset to be a phone.
Which is what people wanted to know about the iPod Touch/iPhone in the beginning. It will do all this in time. Right now it's not doing multi-tasking, which it needs to do sooner than later. It has many limitations right now, although being able to use the ENTIRE iPhone app store makes them much more minimal.
I've had cellphones for so long, I don't remember what it costs to make a long distance call. I can't see how skype will make up for the price of a high speed internet connection.
I do not understand what that sentence means.
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Which is what people wanted to know about the iPod Touch/iPhone in the beginning. It will do all this in time. Right now it's not doing multi-tasking, which it needs to do sooner than later. It has many limitations right now, although being able to use the ENTIRE iPhone app store makes them much more minimal.[/QUOTE]
The practicality of this thing flew out the window for me when it didn't have phone abilities. Why not just carry a netbook with a Blackberry?
Which is what people wanted to know about the iPod Touch/iPhone in the beginning. It will do all this in time. Right now it's not doing multi-tasking, which it needs to do sooner than later. It has many limitations right now, although being able to use the ENTIRE iPhone app store makes them much more minimal.[/QUOTE]
The practicality of this thing flew out the window for me when it didn't have phone abilities. Why not just carry a netbook with a Blackberry?[/QUOTE]
This thing IS a netbook, basically.
Which is what people wanted to know about the iPod Touch/iPhone in the beginning. It will do all this in time. Right now it's not doing multi-tasking, which it needs to do sooner than later. It has many limitations right now, although being able to use the ENTIRE iPhone app store makes them much more minimal.[/QUOTE]
The practicality of this thing flew out the window for me when it didn't have phone abilities. Why not just carry a netbook with a Blackberry?[/QUOTE]
Ummm... I think you are free to do whatever you want? I dunno what the argument is. Yes, it sucks it doesn't have a phone built in but it's not a phone, it's a big, rather powerful iPod Touch/Netbook.
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Which is what people wanted to know about the iPod Touch/iPhone in the beginning. It will do all this in time. Right now it's not doing multi-tasking, which it needs to do sooner than later. It has many limitations right now, although being able to use the ENTIRE iPhone app store makes them much more minimal.[/QUOTE]
The practicality of this thing flew out the window for me when it didn't have phone abilities. Why not just carry a netbook with a Blackberry?[/QUOTE]
This thing IS a netbook, basically.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure about it...
My biggest doubt about it is... The damn thing is unlocked, right? I mean, I can run whatever application I want without going through any app store, right?
If true, then yeah, it's just a tablet netbook... the kind of thing HP (and others) has been doing for 5 years... If not, then it's just an iPhone without the phone functions (and too big to fit in your pocket).
I do not understand what that sentence means.[/QUOTE]
well, skype is mostly free, but you are looking at $30 a month for a high speed connection. Or if you are me, $30 dsl and $30 for 3g.
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Which is what people wanted to know about the iPod Touch/iPhone in the beginning. It will do all this in time. Right now it's not doing multi-tasking, which it needs to do sooner than later. It has many limitations right now, although being able to use the ENTIRE iPhone app store makes them much more minimal.[/QUOTE]
The practicality of this thing flew out the window for me when it didn't have phone abilities. Why not just carry a netbook with a Blackberry?[/QUOTE]
Ummm... I think you are free to do whatever you want? I dunno what the argument is. Yes, it sucks it doesn't have a phone built in but it's not a phone, it's a big, rather powerful iPod Touch/Netbook.[/QUOTE]
My argument is that this was hyped to be the next big thing and it's really just a big, as you say, iTouch. I really don't see a purpose to it if it's not a tablet PC.
Which is what people wanted to know about the iPod Touch/iPhone in the beginning. It will do all this in time. Right now it's not doing multi-tasking, which it needs to do sooner than later. It has many limitations right now, although being able to use the ENTIRE iPhone app store makes them much more minimal.[/QUOTE]
The practicality of this thing flew out the window for me when it didn't have phone abilities. Why not just carry a netbook with a Blackberry?[/QUOTE]
This thing IS a netbook, basically.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure about it...
My biggest doubt about it is... The damn thing is unlocked, right? I mean, I can run whatever application I want without going through any app store, right?
If true, then yeah, it's just a tablet netbook... the kind of thing HP (and others) has been doing for 5 years... If not, then it's just an iPhone without the phone functions (and too big to fit in your pocket).[/QUOTE]
No, it uses the App store just like the iPod Touch/iPhone. And as a user of those devices and with over a million apps in the store it's going to have TONS of things available for it. It's not a full computer but it's much more than a iPod touch. Think of it as an in between for people who want basic computer power with the amazing diversity of the app store.
Also it has a eBook store built in like the Kindle. I'm with you Fade, I got nothing for it right now but down the line I can see it becoming something huge. How much is a Kindle? How much is an iPod? 200 each? Give or take a hundred? For 500 bucks you can have both + a basic computer + the HUGE app store. Not a bad deal. I'd go for it over a Kindle any day if I was in the market for something like that.
Which is what people wanted to know about the iPod Touch/iPhone in the beginning. It will do all this in time. Right now it's not doing multi-tasking, which it needs to do sooner than later. It has many limitations right now, although being able to use the ENTIRE iPhone app store makes them much more minimal.[/QUOTE]
The practicality of this thing flew out the window for me when it didn't have phone abilities. Why not just carry a netbook with a Blackberry?[/QUOTE]
Ummm... I think you are free to do whatever you want? I dunno what the argument is. Yes, it sucks it doesn't have a phone built in but it's not a phone, it's a big, rather powerful iPod Touch/Netbook.[/QUOTE]
My argument is that this was hyped to be the next big thing and it's really just a big, as you say, iTouch. I really don't see a purpose to it if it's not a tablet PC.[/QUOTE]
Everything Apple comes out with is overhyped.
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No, it uses the App store just like the iPod Touch/iPhone. And as a user of those devices and with over a million apps in the store it's going to have TONS of things available for it. It's not a full computer but it's much more than a iPod touch. Think of it as an in between for people who want basic computer power with the amazing diversity of the app store.[/QUOTE]
TONS of things available for it = Only the software Apple think I should run
Seriously, you can't even begin to compare the apple application store with the mass of software available on open platforms (Including Apple's own OSX!!). Give me an open platform (yes, even the crap that is Windows Mobile) over that vendor-locking bullshit any day.
About it being much more than an iPhone... well, let's see...no camera, no USB (it has at least bluetooth, I hope!)... well, it's a lot BIGGER, I give you that...
Here's a link to the video they have put out ( http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/) . A little cheesy but it shows the device off. The more I see of it the slicker it looks. If the eReader is actually really good then I might just have to pick up one of these down the line when the memory goes up.
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It would be great if it was an all-in-one device: phone, camera, netbook, Kindle, but as is, it's just a fancy pants netbook with a touchscreen. Folks will still need to carry along their iPhones with this thing and it won't have computer features like Office2010 (which netbooks do).
I was excited for this thing because it looked like it was going to be an all-in-one device so traveling folk like me don't have to carry 3 gadgets at once. Right now, I might as well stick to my Blackberry and netbook.
Fair enough, I guess when I see that it has over 140,000 apps from the app store ready to run at day one I don't see that as terribly limited. Again, it's not a "computer". It's designed to be something more than a iPhone and less than a full fledged computer. Think Super Kindle I suppose. And really, I'm not trying to sway anyone here, for all I know the thing sucks balls but it's always fun to watch people froth when apple dares to release a product.
Totally agree. I have no use for this until I decide to get an eBook reader, then I won't need my laptop for teaching anymore and can just use this (or something like it) as my main on the go device.
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