iPad

[Misfit]

I win!

7:55am the FedEx man turned up and am doing this post on my new iPad.

Must go play....

[Deckard]

Well hopefully if Stevie pulls his finger out I will be able to pre-order one later today..

[Misfit]

On the plus....

It's beautiful!

Our website application works beautifully on. Well I have to pretend it's for business use.

And the bad...

THE APP STORE IS NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY

ARRGGHHHHH.

Okay, I have now found out I can buy through the god awful app store in iTunes on my PC (Real Racing HD, Warpgate HD and Words with friends HD downloading now).

I guess it will save me a few quid on impulse buys...

[melbourne]

Keep up with the updates misfit !

[VNVObit]

Reviewed in this weeks pcpro podcast as their hot hardware of the week and they said

Spoiler: show

not. Too heavy, too expensive +tives wait until there's 100k+ dedicated apps and it'll be great

[matt]

Sign up for a free US iTunes account and grab iBooks, BBC News, etc

Mine is "on the van" I have been assured.

[Misfit]

Sign up for a free US iTunes account and grab iBooks, BBC News, etc

Mine is "on the van" I have been assured.

My reading suggests a US iTunes account needs a US credit card.

OK, there is one huge, massive, glaring issue with this thing in it's current state.

Surprised I've not read it before and it is solvable by software.

It needs profiles to allow different users to have different settings. This thing is not personal like your iPod or iPhone, this thing begs to be left in the sitting room and used by everyone and it would be lovely if we could all have our own favourite book marks, our own mail settings etc.

I can't ever see me touching the netbook we have in the sitting room again.

[melbourne]

So is there no way to get ibooks yet ?

[matt]

Get it by doing this:

Create an iTunes App Store account without a credit card
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534

[Misfit]

So is there no way to get ibooks yet ?

Working on it!

I assume it will be available for UK release.

[Misfit]

Get it by doing this:

Create an iTunes App Store account without a credit card
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534

Will give it a go in a minute. Can see me getting a lot of work done today...

Words with friends HD, think I may stick to the iPhone version. I'm not used to the board being so big!

Real Racing HD. I HATE driving games using the accelerometer, at least I did on the iPhone. It works much better with the big screen and it's very nice how the car stays level (interior view) as you twist the 'steering wheel'. This is pretty damn cool!

[Misfit]

Get it by doing this:

Create an iTunes App Store account without a credit card
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534

Blooming genius! Thank you.

US App store now running on my pad.

iBooks downloaded with it's lovely free Winnie the Pooh book.

[Misfit]

Not sure if you need a real US address/phone number, but you can get one free by signing up to Bundlebox...

http://www.bundlebox.com/

[matt]

I put my street address as "None"

And then Brooklyn NYC and a zip code I know

[Misfit]

BBC News app is very nice, if a bit limited in the content (it's only recent stuff) and is based on BBC worldwide, rather than the UK and it's sub sites.

Once I realised how to add a UK feed it got better. (settings only available in landscape mode!)