Photoshop Contest Forum Index - Gatherings and Meetings - New Apple iPad - Reply to topic
Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4 Next
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:37 pm Reply with quote
24 minutes ago apple released its new...
Apple iPad
"Live Broadcast" http://www.ustream.tv/leolaporte
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.
%Gallery-84025
Developing... check out the ongoing Apple keynote coverage in the liveblog!
|
Procyon
Site Admin
Location: Toronto, ON
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:51 pm Reply with quote
I can't say I don't like apple, but this looks stupid.
_________________ Feel free to PM me, but PM a mod if you think they can help you. If you've won a prize, contact me!
|
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:00 pm Reply with quote
I really don't see much that an iPhone can't do.. except the full-size qwerty keyboard... Am I missing something?
|
seamusoisin
Location: Ottawa Strong!
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:14 pm Reply with quote
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!!!
|
TofuTheGreat
Location: Back where I belong.
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:16 pm Reply with quote
Azionite wrote: I really don't see much that an iPhone can't do.. except the full-size qwerty keyboard... Am I missing something?
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.
_________________ Why I do believe it's pants-less o'clock! - Lar deSouza
”The mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open.” - Frank Zappa
Created using photoshop and absolutely no talent. - reyrey
|
SCWIDVICIOUS
Location: pfft..
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:29 pm Reply with quote
i think your right tofu.
you can already do that with a laptop, softphone from vonage, and a decent connection.
_________________ ..
|
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:51 pm Reply with quote
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.
|
Lord David
Location: Melbourne, Australian Continent, Earth, Sector 001, United Federation of Planets, Alpha Quadrant.
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:00 pm Reply with quote
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/
|
Tarmac
Location: Hotel California
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:06 pm Reply with quote
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.
|
TofuTheGreat
Location: Back where I belong.
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:53 pm Reply with quote
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.
_________________ Why I do believe it's pants-less o'clock! - Lar deSouza
”The mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open.” - Frank Zappa
Created using photoshop and absolutely no talent. - reyrey
|
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:10 pm Reply with quote
seamusoisin wrote: 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.
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.
|
Wiz
Location: Brisbane Australia
|
Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:16 pm Reply with quote
Free apps! LOL!
[img] [/img]
Wiz
|
Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4 Next
Photoshop Contest Forum Index - Gatherings and Meetings - New Apple iPad - Reply to topic
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|