benedictw wrote: Perhaps what it needs is a more wizzy frontend - it just looks very 'empty'. Its a very safe product. The revamped apps look nice - the photo browsing is great.
I agree with you, nice wallpaper or not the home screen looks very sparse. Only 4 items on the dock still? Surely not.
It needs a proper, configurable home screen, as does the iPhone. I wouldn't mind betting that's one of the key features of iPhoneOS 4.0
RiK wrote:
It needs a proper, configurable home screen, as does the iPhone. I wouldn't mind betting that's one of the key features of iPhoneOS 4.0
I'll give you configurable wallpaper and zip else. If you could have microapps running on the home screen that would be well nice (a weather app showing current weather, or news headlines).
Nobody seems to have mentioned the 'plugin missing' message in the webbrowser. Could flash et al come at a later time?
RiK wrote:Currently I'm undecided about whether I want to go down the 3G route, but the fact it looks like you need the 3G model for the GPS too might swing it.
Ahh, looks like it's not got a 'proper' GPS anyway, only triangulation from cell towers so that's less of an issue anyway.
I believe the iPhone 3G and 3GS both have the 3G radio and GPS on the same chip and I'd guess the iPad would use the same chip, hence why you only get GPS on the 3G model. It's Assisted GPS, too, so you get the GPS location bolstered by cell triangulation, rather than just the latter.
Deckard wrote:V1 for me and then when v2 comes out hubby can have V1 and I'll upgrade
12 or 18 month window between the 2 versions
V1 and then it becomes a hand me down to my daughter
64GB has me tempted if I can get it going through the airport I will WiFi only as don't need another 3G at this point in time (save that for V2 or V3)
My wife had a wonderful put down "you've got a small one (my iPhone before someone ), why do you need a big one?"
"England is funny, but sometimes she scares me"
Tony Wakeford
Unfortunately as much as I’d like one of these I’ve just been thinking of how I use my netbook, which this device would have to be a replacement and the fact I have a web browser and messaging software (irc, IM, skype) open at the same time makes it a no go due to its lack of multitasking. Imagine the case that you’re chatting to someone and they send you a link to something, you can’t follow that without closing the app you are chatting on.
You know, you've got a bloody good point there. I keep saying I don't need multitasking but I'm so used to having Twitter constantly open on my machines it'd be tough to think of this as any sort of 'main machine' (at home, at least) without that...
I have a laptop (and netbook) I'd like to have one of these but if you like to be logged into messaging apps while doing other stuff it's no use ( why I stopped using my Touch for irc ). Anyone coming to the iPad from a "cheap and slow" netbook as Jobs put it is going to find messaging apps almost useless if they want to do anything else at the same time.
Ghostbiscuit wrote:The thing that I was hoping for would be that it would have a dock that connects to your mac which would allow the iPad to function as a second monitor. How awesome would that be?
For a long time now I've been dreaming about a net/notebook which would have a mode which lets you use the screen as an external monitor and have USB out for the keyboard/trackpad. If it could look like a USB mass storage device to another machine, then all the better.
The idea is that you would have a normal notebook, but at the flick of a switch (or more likely via a reboot) you've got a complete set of peripherals that you can plug into that headless server that's been causing problems.
), why do you need a big one?"
