Apple iPad

[enlightenme]

"no mulsti-tsking ba?" katatapos lang ng apple event kahapon... iPhone OS 4.0 is coming...

 

eh yun kaso ndi sya true multi-tasking eh... nabanggit na parang limited apps lang yun pwede magamit na parang nag-mumulti-task(malabo ba? uhm... isipin mo, may multi-tasking na talaga ang iPhone at touch yung iPod music plaayer diba pwede magrun sa background). basta medyo magulo at di ko maipaliwanag, check niyo lang sa engadget.com.

 

pero ayun i still find this very expensive and not so portable, because it does nothing that the iPhone and touch could not do...

[brian]

^Yep, with OS 4.0 there would be multi-tasking for the iPhone...and later the iPad. I think I read that it won't be initially available to the recent iPad but will be available this summer.

 

I think its a cool gadget if you're an e-book reader because it was specifically made for it. Apple fanboys should know better to wait for a 2nd or 3rd generation of the iPad for more and better features.

[brian]

Jobs confirms original iPhone won't run iPhone OS 4

 

Apple just screwed the early adopters yet again.

[cool_as_ice]

A german company introduced a new iPad challenger and it runs on Android OS...

 

introducing the We PAD..

 

http://wepad.mobi/sites/wepad.mobi/files/WePad_Pic_8_0.jpg

 

http://wepad.mobi/sites/wepad.mobi/files/WePad_Pic_6_0.jpg

 

check this reports from NowPublic website

 

WePad website

[kanto-terrorist]

for those experienced apple gadget owners, you know the sequence.... Introduction of new product that has so less features left to be desired> bring on the tempting apps> gradually add small hardware upgrades to keep applefans burning their hard earned money buying another upgraded device> as step by step improvements keep going on, you'll see the hype slowly turn into must-have> Stevie will once again laugh his way to the banks>>

 

Its almost the same path iphone walked thru.

Edited April 16, 2010 by kanto-terrorist

[Kurtsky Keigee]

overrated.

[erfwindfire]

Alang kuwenta ta yan Ipod e convert mo pa yun

video di katulad ng creative drop n drop pati flv files na play niya.

[DreadLocke]

iPad's Wi-Fi connection uses a frequency that conflicts standards in some countries.

 

"If you operate equipment in a frequency band which is different from the others that operate on that frequency band, then there will be interference," Nati Schubert, a senior official with the Israeli Communications Ministry, told the AP.

 

My equipments at work are going off-the-grid errors.

It's pretty much useless without an internet connection.

 

This is one BIG mess Apple.

[desidido69]

i take it as how a netbook should be concepted - core basic functionalities, portability, internet access.

[Itto Ogami]

the iPad-compatible ScotteVest Windbreaker

 

[boomouse]

iPad's Wi-Fi connection uses a frequency that conflicts standards in some countries.

 

"If you operate equipment in a frequency band which is different from the others that operate on that frequency band, then there will be interference," Nati Schubert, a senior official with the Israeli Communications Ministry, told the AP.

 

My equipments at work are going off-the-grid errors.

It's pretty much useless without an internet connection.

 

This is one BIG mess Apple.

 

this is not Apple's fault. Wifi has been assigned the 2.4Ghz and 5 Ghz band woldwide under an agreement promoted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Every country that is a UN member country is mandated to conform. Some countries have pre-allowed the use of this frequency for something else and that is not a conflict that is Apple's fault. Apple's wifi frequencies use the same as any other computer and router manufacturer's.

 

The Philippines is a case in point. Meralco uses the 2.4 GHz for their internal communications net and had been using it way before wifi became a standard. Guess who was been forced to bend backwards and be flexible?

[MRROUGHSEX]

I don't like fingers touching the screen.

[boomouse]

Mr Softie vapourizes vapourware

 

 

Microsoft has ceased development on the Courier, a two-screen tablet computer the company hoped would compete with Apple's iPad.

 

Gizmodo reports, "Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer informed the internal team that had been working on the tablet device that the project would no longer be supported."

 

Microsoft never officially acknowledged the Courier's existence, and the gadget always felt more like a marketing stunt than a real product.

 

Reached by Gizmodo, Microsoft spokesperson Frank X. Shaw seemed to suggest the Courier was always just a concept gadget that Microsoft designed the same way automakers design concept cars. He told Gizmodo:

At any given time, we're looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It's in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time.

Someone at Microsoft leaked details of the Courier to Gizmodo last fall. Then, in March, someone at Microsoft leaked more details of the Courier to Engadget.

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Could someone remind me how you cancel vapourware?

 

On a serious note it looks like Microsoft attempted their usual run around the corral only to find it wasn't working.

It looks like their FUD driven project couldn't keep the customers away from the iPad so they have decided to just give up.

 

Amazing.

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A comment from Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/30/confirmed-lgs-moorestown-based-gw990-wont-be-made/):

 

Microsoft probably killed it because it was one of their ambitious designs that people were talking too seriously, you can find a lot of other cool concepts they made on youtube.

 

As for LG and hp, I've said it before, and I'll say it again, x86 has no place in portable computing, hell it probably wouldn't still be so prevalent in the desktop market if it wasn't for Windows, with the iPad, like it or not, Apple showed that a specially designed OS on an ARM platform, gives the end user an affordable and fast tablet with hours of battery life, hp was smart to k*ll the sure to be disappointment and focus on webOS, now we just wait for JooJoo to die it's slow death

 

Read more: http://www.businessi...4#ixzz0mdIA0d6L

Edited May 1, 2010 by boomouse

[deepdiverboy]

In 2001, Microsoft introduced the Tablet PC, with Bill Gates firmly believing that the next stage in man-machine interface was to eliminate the keyboard altogether. That idea flopped badly, and the only thing that Microsoft was able to save from that idea was Windows Vista with Tablet PC support, which can be seen in such devices as HP's Tx touchscreen laptop series.

 

The iPad doesn't offer anything new. So if Apple's iPad succeeds, I don't know what to say except that Apple has done a very good job of cultivating blind sheep from among the world's gadget users.

[adoboman]

ipad = epic fail