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Apple iPad

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Here is the link

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad/



After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple's finally unveiled the iPad. It's a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it's running a custom 1GHz Apple "A4" chip developed by P.A. Semi, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It'll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it's got the expected connectivity: very little. There's a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, and 802.11n WiFi. As expected, it can run iPhone apps -- either pixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen.

Apple says there's room for a third device between the smartphone and the laptop, and that it has to be better at tasks like browsing, email, photos, e-books, and videos than both -- netbooks, says Steve, "aren't better at anything." It looks just like the leak we saw, with a large touchscreen keyboard that Steve says is "a dream to type on," and an interface that's very reminiscent of the iPhone, although it's significantly expanded and altered. The built-in apps are much more Mac-like than iPhone-like, with versions of iPhoto and iTunes that look like touch-oriented versions of their desktop counterparts. There's also some built-in location services that lets the Map app auto-locate. Obviously the iTunes store is built-in for previewing and buying media.
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Here is a link to all the stuff the new "iPad" can do...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/

a very large novelty iphone? nice!

I can't say I don't like apple, but this looks stupid.

I really don't see much that an iPhone can't do.. except the full-size qwerty keyboard... Am I missing something?

Just another instrument that invades your privacy. Don't we spend enough time connected? Go outside, take a deep breathe, enjoy that feeling of being alone and at peace, even if it's only for a minute. Devices in your ear, the damn cel phone sending signals from your pocket to your ear. How important is what you need to hear that it can't wait. What are you doing heart transplants. You know the next thing will be Browntooth connectivity and you know where they are going to put that!!! More crap!!

Now I'm going out for a beer and you can take this Jobs and sh.......

OK I feel better!!!

I was talking with a co-worker about the Nexus One from Google a few weeks ago. He's got an HTC Hero and it's basically identical to the Nexus One. We started comparing it to the iPhone and the Android platform kicks the iPhone's ass.

Anyway we agreed that the new smartphones are basically just tiny netbooks anymore. At this point I made the prediction that eventually a small netbook would be your phone and you'd just use a bluetooth headset for actual speaking.

I think this iPad, lame as it may look, is the first step in that direction.

i think your right tofu.

you can already do that with a laptop, softphone from vonage, and a decent connection.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

this is something for the 75 million iphone users...who want something like it but larger. For movies, newspapers, photos, etc. I wouldn't spend that much time doing "real" work on it. Maybe something fun to take on a plane trip or road trip.

A load of crap. It's not even a proper mac as most people wanted (that is run mac-os X, within a touch screen computer), do people even need this? If it were a proper computer, then perhaps it would have some proper usability, but otherwise, what's the point?

Some of the supposed rumor models look better than the iPad.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/the-apple-tablet-a-complete-history-supposedly/

I personally don't acquire any first generation device or app. even if it does come sanctified from Almighty Apple. As with any new tech, Apple or not, the best strategy is wait and see, rather than buy and suffer at the bleeding edge.

Actually I was just looking at the specs. At $499 for the base model I could see my wife using this for what she normally does on the desktop (email, hitting facebook and general web surfing, solitaire, etc). Would go a long way to keeping her off "my" computer.

Yes! That's it!
I never had a cellphone... and I'll try to never buy one.
So... that new thing isn't for me.

Free apps! LOL!

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