The iPad is coming. What’s your take?

January 27, 2010 on 2:53 pm | In iphone | 22 Comments

Unless you’ve been hiding under an analog rock today, you’ve come across the news about Apple’s new iPad device, due to hit stores in a couple of months.

The iPad is essentially a giant iPhone – 9.7-inch display, half-inch thick, and weighing in at just a pound and a half. It runs the iPhone OS on it so all the same apps you use on your iPhone, like Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone, will be available for the iPad. And several of the native apps like Mail and Calendar have been redesigned for the larger screen.

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Is this Apple’s version of the netbook? lol.

Comment by SGFC — January 27, 2010 #
a waste.

Comment by yolarrydabomb — January 27, 2010 #
No Camera is a crime… so easy and cheap to be included….i was really looking forward to the yahoo messenger app getting an overhaul for that functionality. Hopefully the next rev of iphone with have front facing camera. (could still enable people to view others like fring app)

Also back to the ipad, no inbuilt usb port, no multi tasking, and no flash support. Hopefully the last two will get fixed with iphone os4.0 but the announcement today while shedding light on what might be a good product in the future just isnt there yet. (kinda like original iphone with only a few apps until iphone 3g came along and did it right)

If yahoo were doing something with Ipad, it should be a seperate app from the iphone version i feel. It could have with a lay out somewhat like the mail app with contacts on the right hand side and conversation on the left (with potential for multile chat windows better photosharing, one way video call yahoo games etc with all the extra space)

By the way is voice support and video calling (even one way ala fring) coming anytime soon to yahoo messenger on iphone?

Comment by Noel — January 27, 2010 #
i’d take the unofficial tablet/slate computer by Axiotron anyday unless the price is lower than this 3rd party

Comment by 8675309 — January 27, 2010 #
no, its apples downgrade of the netbook that no one thought possible

Comment by stew — January 27, 2010 #
I think this is amazing!!!! I wanna hold the internet in my hands. O.O I fell in love with it even though I don’t have it. Haha I’m a techno freak!!!!! so that’s why I fell in love with it.

Comment by Bethany — January 28, 2010 #
From what I have seen & read @Apple.com it looks quite nice.

As you stated lets hope that Apple in the future will add the camera feature by some means to the iPad.

People will probably be rushing to the stores when its release for sale just like the iPhone.

Comment by NuYoRican deCorazon — January 29, 2010 #
No multitasking. Fail.

No flash when web browsing. Fail.

iTunes and the iPad video app still won’t support other common media container formats like: AVI, MKV, DIVX, WMV, and FLV. Fail.

No 1080p. Fail.

Screw the iPad. It’s an iPod Touch for old people who squint when looking at an iPod Touch.

Comment by Blah — January 29, 2010 #
BTW, no camera will not be an iPad killer. Thanks to the iCult these iPads will sell like hot cakes even though it’s just a gutted smart-phone with a larger display.

The reason there’s no camera is because something has to entice people to buy the 2nd gen iPad when Steve Jobs proclaims, “we listened to the features you wanted: here’s your camera.”

Comment by Blah — January 29, 2010 #
this is a missing link between the smartphone and laptops but it needs a lot of modification..

Comment by Nitesh Patel @techmadly — January 31, 2010 #
I would be scared drop the ipad if I use the buzz feature in yahoo messenger for iphone on the ipad.

I also wonder I had the yahoo messenger app running and im having a convo with someone then I hit somebody with the ipad, would it sent that person im having the convo with a buzz?????

I wonder.

Comment by chev — February 3, 2010 #
nice a bigger version of i phone cool.!

Comment by lk — February 4, 2010 #
Nothing much different from iPod touch/iPhone. Only bigger screen can’t make a revolution.

Comment by Rocky — February 8, 2010 #
Its too small,just like the other netbooks, there too small. They alook very hard to figure out a way to carry them around and sence im male a handbag is out of the question lol. Your money will be better spent on a full sized laptop,no limitations that way.

Comment by Stan — February 9, 2010 #
intrested to buy but not very sure as the lap top is much better than the I pad I suppose

Comment by Dr Ujwala Andrews — February 11, 2010 #
The reason Apple did not include a webcam.
So, they can shove it down as version 1.1 after a year.. and keep the demand up.. no other reason. Remember, whenevery they create a product, they will lay out a road map. of whats coming in the following versions.. top secret ofcourse.

Comment by Bob — March 7, 2010 #
does this support messenger apps?

googletalk, yaho msn and so on

Comment by Bob — March 7, 2010 #
I finally got the new ipad, it is just so amazing and portable i would never switch back to a normal computer. Thanks for the blog.

Comment by Upbids — August 11, 2010 #
yes, the ipad is just a bigger ipod. anyway, i love my ipad very much. apple products are fantastic.

Comment by fantastic — January 25, 2011 #
I want the i pad but i want to use yahoo messenger

Comment by sameer — March 2, 2011 #
Hell yeahhh, thatd be funn

Comment by thee fab — March 11, 2011 #
Kids really loves playing with their ipad because of its cool features. Recently my son show to me an e-book that he manage to download in a site. Great thing to my son is reading into his ipad. Ipad addiction is not a problem if parents will continuelly monitor their kids.

I managed to surf in this site about kids ipad addiction. I hope it may help you.

Comment by Walz Capeda — July 12, 2011 #

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