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Apple iPad Tablet News and Discussion
by Chris Faylor, Jan 27, 2010 10:00am PST
After years of rumors and speculation, Apple's long-awaited iPad is now official. It's half-an-inch thick and weighs one-and-a-half pounds with a 9.7-inch IPS display, described by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as "super high quality."
In all, there will be six models: 16GB ($499), 32GB ($599), 64GB ($699), 16GB 3G ($629), 32GB 3G ($729), 65GB 3G ($829). The first batch will be available worldwide in sixty days (so late March) while the 3G models will start rolling out in ninety (late April).
It sports a ten-hour battery life and packs a 1GHz Apple A4 chip, said by Jobs to be "screaming." The hardware includes an accelerometer, compass, speaker, 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1. Accessories include a keyboard that docks on the bottom.
The costlier 3G models will be unlocked, with AT&T offering two contract-less cellular data plans in the United States --250MB at $14.99 a month or unlimited at $29.99.
All iPhone applications, such as games, will be compatible with the iPad, playable in a boxed window or full-screen through pixel-doubling. "It just works," says Apple.
Of course, developers will be able to take full advantage of the larger display thanks to a new iPhone SDK, which will be available today. Among the applications being modified for the multitouch device is Gameloft's previously released iPhone shooter N.O.V.A.
Also on board is gaming giant Electronic Arts, with EA VP Travis Boatman describing the iPad as almost like holding a high-definition display inches from your face. Among the improved iPad games coming from Electronic Arts is racer Need for Speed.
Original: The time for speculation is almost over, as Apple is moments away from potentially revolutionizing civilization with the formal unveiling of its long-rumored tablet.
What little we know so far indicates that the device will run on a modified version of the iPhone OS, with games likely being part of the fabled tablet's various offerings.
We'll be continually updating this post as more details come in, so stay tuned.
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http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=fourbythreebyfail_1o7hf03xq3loxnr5hdof.png
No widescreen video for you! Welcome to the 90s.
Going by that photo and opening it in Photoshop, the picture size is 370x276 which equals a 1.33 aspect ratio. So whatever the actual screen resolution is, it's the same aspect ratio of a television built in the 1950s.
I post this in disappointment as a stock holder.
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Who's with me?
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http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet
http://gizmodo.com/5369493/leaked-courier-video-shows-how-well-actually-use-it
http://www.pcworld.com/article/181487/microsoft_courier_a_feature_breakdown.html
Looking forward to Microsoft finally bringing it into the limelight. Seems like its features can easily beat the iPad, just needs to get ahead with apps, but if it supports Windows programs, since it runs off Windows 7, then it shouldn`t be an issue.
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Want a book? Buy a book.
Want a proper e-book reader with e-ink and good battery life? Buy a kindle
Want an iphone? buy an iphone!
Want an ipod? Buy an iphone or an ipod!
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Awesome, it has the same clock speed as the Apollo Guidance Computer from the late 1960's!
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http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/index.html
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http://images.google.de/images?q=Tablet%20P88&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=de&tab=wi
Anyhow. It looks cool. I can't wait to develop for it and can't wait to afford one (normally I could rather soon but times are harder recently). And in my case, I don't mind waiting a bit to see what wonders other people might come up with too. Real iPad specific app store stuff.
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I will not get one, because I don't understand the purpose of it.
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It just shows how greedy they are.
They aren't selling 3G for first 30 days, why?
So the people that have too much money and aren't very bright (I mean the combination of both I'm not saying that all people with money are dumb) would have to buy 3G version 30 days after they discover how slow browsing might be when not on wi-fi and using GPRS
I wouldn't be surprised if the production price between both types would be marginal.
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As an e-reader its more expensive, bigger, heavier, has (comparably) terrible battery life and an inferior screen (for e-reading) than other e-readers
As a portable computer it's equally priced, but far less capable than other laptops
As a portable internet device it is too big to carry everywhere with you without being cumbersome, and less capable than smart phones which already fulfill this purpose, are much smaller, and can call+text people.
I'm not really sure what need it is trying to fulfill.
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PLEASE GOD PLEASE
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No card slot so they can rape you on the higher capacity storage. Of course, it costs them an extra $4 and they charge $100 or something. It's a sad racket, sader still that it works. Any kind of mobile device without an SD card slot is unacceptable, I had a $40 memorex 64mb MP3 player 4 years ago with an SD card slot that read 1 GB cards FFS.
And I was really hoping for some native pen support, because tablets are great idea spaces for anyone designing, well, ANYTHING. Without a good interface for a sketchpad, why bother?
I love my ipod touch, don't get me wrong, but thats because it is what it is. This should have been more, not just more screen and CPU.
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I have an iPhone. It mostly gets used for trivial, pointless shit, but occasionally it's really useful. That usefulness is predicated on the fact that it's small enough to carry everywhere.
I have two different laptops, a 15" Macbook Pro (provided by work) and a 13" Dell (bought by me). I can do a lot more with them, and get a lot of real utility out of them. But, they're limited because it's not really feasible or desirable to carry one of them everywhere.
I also have an ebook reader, which is a bit less portable than the iPhone and a bit more portable than the notebooks, but has phenomenal battery life and doesn't induce eyestrain.
The iPad seems to combine all the worst aspects of the first two with few of the advantages of any. It's mostly only good for pointless, trivial shit, but lacks the iPhone's portability. It's nearly the size of a notebook, but lacks a notebook's (or even a netbook's) versatility. It won't have anything close to the battery life of a ebook reader, nor will it have an ebook reader's e-ink technology.
So it's not replacing anything I already have, and it's not filling any perceptible unfilled niche. It seems like a solution looking for a problem.
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I was hoping to just spend 15 minutes tweaking my app, recompiling it, then being the first app of it's kind on the app store. :P
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It's like walking backward all the way your destination. It still gets you where you want to be, but with a lot more deliberation and inconvenience! :D
Matter of fact, that's how this device should be marketed; The iPad: "Taking a step backward, to move forward."
Sure, I'm excited for flat tablets like this to get serious and come down in price to where they are worth buying, but this isn't it. Sorry. And what's up with the price nearly doubling for the 64 gig version? Is it really several hundred dollars more for the larger harddrive?
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