iPad

[WiteWulf]

Apple store in :
Nottingham
Victoria Centre,
(upper level),
Nottingham,
NG1 3QQ

Tel: 0115 941 5675
You need to put 20% deposit down , but they will match the uk price when announced, get 3g mate and we can go for a pint and browse in a pub on our new ita....ipads!

Not to be a pedant, but I believe you mean the KRCS store in Vic Centre, it's not an Apple Store...

[melbourne]

Apple store in :
Nottingham
Victoria Centre,
(upper level),
Nottingham,
NG1 3QQ

Tel: 0115 941 5675
You need to put 20% deposit down , but they will match the uk price when announced, get 3g mate and we can go for a pint and browse in a pub on our new ita....ipads!

Not to be a pedant, but I believe you mean the KRCS store in Vic Centre, it's not an Apple Store...

A little pedantic yeah.

[WiteWulf]

Not to be a pedant, but I believe you mean the KRCS store in Vic Centre, it's not an Apple Store...

A little pedantic yeah.[/quote]

Oi, I'm 5'11"!

[Deckard]

Inside Apple's iPad: VGA video output
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10 ... utput.html

Why VGA on the iPad?

So why is Apple reverting back in time to VGA output on the iPad? For starters, most video projectors support the iPad's XGA resolution of 1024x768 over a VGA port, while only a few support HDTV-style resolutions such as 720p (1280x720) over an HDMI or DVI port.

Additionally, its cheaper and simpler to include VGA style signaling, and few of the features of DVI or DisplayPort would offer any benefit to iPad users. VGA is plenty sufficient to handle the iPad's native 1024x768 resolution. Other low cost mobile devices also use VGA for video outputs, including most netbooks and even many mainstream PC laptops.

The iPad isn't really clamoring for HDTV video output because it presents a page format suited to a computing workspace rather than a wide screen display preferred for widescreen movies. Users who want to deliver HD content on their TV would be better suited to using an appliance such as Apple TV, which delivers 720p video via and HDMI connector, rather than trying to cable the iPad.

A more practical way to use the iPad in conjunction with an HDTV would be to use Apple's existing Remote app for iPhone to control a directly connected Apple TV via WiFi. The company is likely to deliver an extended version of its Remote app that brings even more sophisticated multitouch controls for interacting with and navigating through iTunes LP and iTunes Extras content.

[Marius]

Does anyone know if the iPad will support joypads and other similar accessories via USB?

[Deckard]

It doesn't have built in USB just a 30 pin connector but I'm hoping for at least some form of wifi / blue tooth controller fairly quickly

[Marius]

Hmm, I do hope they will have some sort of option for connecting an alternative controller, since most of the games that you can play via the C64 emulator are more or less unplayable with the default controller. And there are plenty of other 2D-platformers released on the iPhone/iPad that would benefit from using a classic pad.

[Deckard]

A friend of mine in Bristol popped in last night and said he had just played with a friend's iPad The friend had just flown in from New York and apparently was very well connected at Apple. He said the interface was just so fluid and just felt so "right" that now for him it was almost certainly a must buy rather than a wait and see. Apparently the friend is "converting" almost everyone who plays with it (which reminds me of when I had my first gen iPod and iPhone)

[RiK]

It doesn't have built in USB just a 30 pin connector but I'm hoping for at least some form of wifi / blue tooth controller fairly quickly

There is also an official Apple USB dongle (and a SD Card reader), plus the SDK now allows the control of external devices via the dock connector so the potential for additional hardware peripherals is definitely there.

[adam]

almost seems like back to the days of the spectrum interface connector

[Deckard]

Nice video HD reveal of all its features - I think the home screen looks a little sparse currently
[youtube]XMUi4oOCe3M&feature[/youtube]

[Misfit]

Nice video HD reveal of all its features - I think the home screen looks a little sparse currently

Agreed, but it's only the simulator and that probably doesn't have all the software in it.

It's just a boring video of how to use a web browser though...

[piku]

almost seems like back to the days of the spectrum interface connector

You mean ten different printer (or disk, or joystick or mouse...etc) interfaces, none of which are compatible with each other or any actual software?

... but which all included handy BASIC routines and one half-arsed bit of software just to prove you'd not wasted 30 quid on a largely useless product.

[piku]

Nice video HD reveal of all its features - I think the home screen looks a little sparse currently

Agreed, but it's only the simulator and that probably doesn't have all the software in it.

It's just a boring video of how to use a web browser though...

Haha

"And here we see how Apple plans to deal with Flash on the iPad" ... by just showing a white box as if it doesn't exist

Ever tried filling in these large text boxes on this forum using an iPhone and its popup keyboard? I hope they don't recreate that experience on the iPad, it's very frustrating.

[RiK]

"And here we see how Apple plans to deal with Flash on the iPad" ... by just showing a white box as if it doesn't exist

For all the arguments about *why* Apple are ignoring Flash, I still cant help but think it's going to jump up and bite them in the arse.

On their consumer-level kit Apple are all about giving their users the impression 'it just works' but surely those are exactly the same level of users who are unlikely to have any idea or interest in what's going on behind the scenes with Apple/Adobe.

Much as I hate all the crappy games and applications on Facebook etc. it pretty obvious from all the spam I get from my friends on there that the vast majority of people on their seem to add millions of the bloody things. Those random sofa-surfers are exactly the people that Apple want to be targeting and what kind of impression are those people going to get when their beloved farmville doesn't work any more?

Surely that's exactly the kind of user experience that Apple want to avoid at all costs?