Other The iFail- wait sorry, iPad, is officially out

Sorry Dad.

 

Unbelievable, no multitasking is bad enough on the phone, but on something that's supposed to be more of a full computer? I think Apple have really gotten too arrogant/complacent now...

 

USB and SD card adapters available for it too, though who would buy an sd adapter when you can use a card reader with the usb adapter?

 

C'mon Nexxo, you are comparing a product that hasn't even been released yet it's so new to a product that is five years old (which is a monumental gulf of time in the tech market) and one you yourself were also ranting and raving about when you had it

Stick and SSD and an LCD display on that old tablet you've got and I bet you'd see a remarkable improvement in battery life and time to life from standby. Then there's new processors out, you're tablet is Pentium M if I remember right and intel have made great leaps in performance since the pentium range was axed.

I kind of get what you meant about the OS though, but that is XP tablet edition, and it wasn't really designed with proper tablets like yours solely in mind, it was designed to be used with laptops that also function as tablets too so it needed a full blown OS for when you are using it in laptop mode.

I find the idea of the iPad intriguing, but I'm not sure why you'd need one, it's just seems like one of those products that fills a gap that isn't there. We already have the iphone, which can do most of the stuff the iPad can do and some things it can't, and it's small enough to fit in your pocket so you can carry it everywhere without much problem. Then if you want to do some proper web browsing or work, just take something like an eee along, it's cheaper, and it has a physical keyboard so it's actually decent at writing anything of a length more than 3 sentences.

It's cool, but it's one of those things you buy because it's cool and for about no other reason.

 

It's not even 720p if we're considering the size of the screen. So even low resolution "HD" isn't outputted at its native resolution.

 

No, I have seen them. I'm not any more impressed with them than with the iPad. An Android tablet would be great, but the iPad is here now.

 

I don't own an iPhone, so am I right in assuming that no multitasking means you cant run an IM app while reading a ebook? Or no music while browsing the web? If so, bummer.

Kinda shocked about no camera too. Wouldn't Apple love to demo it running full screen iChat or something, looks right up their ally.

 

I'd rather have an iPhone than that POS

 

Actually, it's not, the iPad is 60-90 days away from launch depending on if you want 3G or not. Android tablets are slated for the first half of 2010, they're coming up real soon.

Correct, though you can run the built-in iPod application in the background.

 

On the iphone, you could technically run an IM app because push notifications allow you to be notified of the IM app having activity (e.g. your buddy has sent you a message), but you will have to exit your current app to reply. This could be really inconvenient if you were playing a game such as NFS Shift, which takes about a minute to get you back in after going through the introduction video, etc etc.

You can have music from your iPod while surfing the web too, but you can't do something like stream music off an app like last.fm or Pandora while surfing.

This is similar to the iPad, then.

 

No, it means you can't have an app like spotify running while browsing the web. The built in ipod app can run in the background with any other app and most IM apps use push, meaning they can notify you of received messages while you browse the web and listen to music etc.

 

The iPhone OS has limited multitasking, ie: you can listen to music while doing some other things. Third party apps cannot be run in the background at all, which I think is a crippling blow to an already mediocre product. I'll stick with my iPhone thanks.

There is talk of iPhone OS 4 including multitasking, if it does, I'm guessing it would bring multitasking to the iPad as well.

 

No multitasking is a big no-no -.-'

 

Okay, so basically really really limited multitasking.

Honestly, if the price is right, I can really imagine the iPad being handy to have just laying around the living room.

 

So an oversized iPhone without the phone... I bet it won't stop lovers of the forbidden fruit holding it up to their ears and shouting; "HELLO!? YEAH! I'M IN A LIBRARY!"

Comedy. Gold.

 

QFT +rep

 

Damn it, now I must have one, especially if you can get a comically oversized number pad on the screen

 

There's an app for that.

 

reminds me of this

 

I think you have proved his point by saying that. Most users do not see a use for it, you can call them ignorant for not knowing what it is used for. But if you don't know what something is used for without it being explained to you, it has failed.

I like how Apple have pushed the market forward for mp3 players and smart phones by releasing products that forces people to compete, and competition always means progress.

But I can not say I can see any use for this product in my life, no one I know has expressed any interest in a tablet. The ones who aren't techies say something like "What is the point in it? Is it supposed to be a laptop with a keyboard, or a big phone?"