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A few side notes and more feedback.

Speakers actually seem fine when it's in it's dock. The sound seems to reflect up off the desk and sounds loud. When it's being held the sound seems lost. I was wondering about this as the speakers aren't small inside (saw a tear down video on YouTube).

I note that the keyboard Bluetooth functionality mimics actual Mac computers. For instance, their famous sleep mode, which the iPhone uses also, is in the iPad, and easily awakens by just hitting the Space bar. Click and the screen lights up on the iPad with no slider lock showing, like on a laptop. Also, keyboard commands from Mac work when typing. I didn't think the iPhone OS was that sophisticated. I hope they make keyboards sync with iPhones as well.

Bill
 
Ted,

It appears the Bluetooth mouse does not work on iPhone OS.

The photo of the mouse really makes you think this. The gang at discussions.apple.com put me straight on that. (no visible cursor on screen).

It would be the ultimate feature and perhaps just too much to ask for on an iPhone OS...



Bill
 
Lionheart,
With AT&T's "4G" network coming out sometime in 2011, will the iPad work with "4G"...:ques:
 
I had a dental followup appointment Friday afternoon. I knew the 3G version was coming out this weekend. Someone in the doc's waiting room said it was Friday at 5PM. It was 4:15 when he said it. So, why not? There were 20 people in line at a Best buy in front of me. So, I got the 32 gig 3G model. This is my first ever Apple product and I must say I'm impressed. I played with it in stores a few times. On browser compatibility: So far, I've seen a couple Flash issues, and one Java issue. I can work around all of it except the Java issue. That's my wife's work site. I hear that might get fixed. Since I have three other computers in the house than can do it all, it's no biggie. I am really amazed at what's in the App store. For the pilots here, check out ForeFlight. The app is free and comes with one month access to the data - all kinds of data. Like what's in the AOPA Airports app with real time weather several different ways. A three month subscription is about $25.

Bottom line, - I don't much care what it can't do - I'm really enjoying what it can do. The book reader and the Kindle apps are really quite nice.

Glenn
 
Hey P,

If I am correct, 4G is 4G, and 3G is 3G, and 3Gs is 3Gs. Thus you need the actual hardware to take in the full capabilities of that telecommunications platform or transmission wave. I think it has to do with multiple bandwidths for more faster, thicker data flow. (thats all I know, and probably way off).

Thus... Presently, the iPad is 3G, and not even 3Gs and should not be able to perform as well as a 4G, if I am correct, but note that this is not a phone (yet) though I am sure it will have speaker phone capabilities soon.

I thought (was hoping) that the 4G phone was coming out this year. darn... Can you tell me how you heard that 4G was coming out next year?


They have a serious WiFi problem going on right now. Presently, I can only go online via my 3G network. Alot of people are a bit upset over this.
 
Lionheart said:
I... Can you tell me how you heard that 4G was coming out next year?
Click to expand...

"As HSPA 7.2 is rolled out in each U.S. market, it will be supported by substantial additional wireless backhaul, the critical connections that carry traffic from cell sites to AT&T’s IP backbone network. This backhaul capacity, including thousands of new connections this year, is being designed to support not only HSPA 7.2, but also 4G LTE, which AT&T plans to begin trialing in 2010 and deploying in 2011."

--> http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?newsarticleid=27068&cdvn=news&pid=4800
 
Looks like you were right in getting the iPad and not waiting Bill. HP has canceled the Slate and MS has canceled the Courier! :salute:
 
Hey CM,

Sorry to hear that. I know there are HP and MS fans and they have been waiting for those new devices just like me waiting on the iPad.

Maybe they are going to redo their projects a little and come out with them later.

Bill
 
Well I never will, and never intended to, buy a tablet PC anytime soon. That said, I wouldn't rule out the HP slate yet. It seems that all of the speculation of it's cancellation comes from rumors alone - nothing official.

It seems odd that they would bin the entire project so soon to it's completion. It's got adverts for crying out loud. As for Win7, given the specs of the device I couldn't see any problems with running it. Netbooks run it absolutely perfectly and the slate had as much power as any of those. It has/had a 1.6Ghz processor and 1GB RAM. Ok, it's not going to run FSX, but it's no slouch.

Will be interesting to see what comes of this.
 
The way that Apple was able to make a super thin, super fast, efficient Pad with all its functionality was because of iPhone OS. The main mother board in the iPad is like a credit card that is about a 1/4 inch thick or so. The batteries are the biggest thing inside the iPad.

Thus... My theory is, that if Windows want to make something similar, they need to redo the Windows CE pocket device OS and make something along those lines, like Windows CE-7 or something. That would be able to run in small devices that were incredibly small and needed small batteries, etc. Maybe a bare-bones Win7-Lite.

Amazingly, the Mac OSX program isnt really that large, has a small footprint. But dang, putting that in the iPad would have required a full size laptop HD, a graphics card chip at least, and many other things. They would be looking at another Apple 'Air' laptop type thing, and that would have sold for over the 1K price range then. The iPad sells for $500.00 because its basically a big iPod or iPhone. The same platforms, diff packaging, big screen.


It would be interesting to see a new Windows CE from Windows, now that they have learned that HUGE OS isnt particularly the way to go, and also doing it artistically, like iPhone OS, Mac, and Win7, (neat looks, neat animations, etc).


I hope they get it all worked out..



Bill
 
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