iPad

Published 27 January, 2010

Shot from every angle.

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  • Redeye #1 2 years ago

    'Shit from every angle.'

    /fixed

  • el_pollo_diablo #2 2 years ago

    I think it looks alright personally. I doubt I'll be getting one anytime soon though.

  • insincere_dave #3 2 years ago

    That the title of your mum's new porno DVD?

  • Red-Moose #4 2 years ago

    I must admit, I find it quite attractive as it looks like the things they use in Star Trek when discussing mission briefings.

  • hilts #5 2 years ago

    It's all a bout the price...

  • CitizenGeek #6 2 years ago

    It's a big iPhone .... meh, I'm happy with my pocket-sized iPhone :)

  • TrevSkyline #7 2 years ago

    So......who made an iPod Touch bigger then???
    Edited by 1 at 27/01/10 @ 20:45

  • bdaggers #8 2 years ago

    The bezel. Look at the size of the bezel Jim !

  • Dizzy #9 2 years ago

    I like the look of this. Need to hold it in my hand before I can judge the gaming merits but that big screen might come in useful for some new games ideas I am having. Could be almost as good as a boardgame :)

    /downloads new SDK

  • UKwoods #10 2 years ago

    Nice toy, but I will be sticking with my iPhone. I can't see myself finding a pocket big enough to fit that thing in. Dom Jolly??

  • munki83 #11 2 years ago

    Oh christ thanks apple I will now have to see twats everywhere walking about with iPads out and being smug.

  • DarkBytes #12 2 years ago

    thats the kindle dead in the water unless they drop the price ,
    although i expect there will be no flash ability in the browser , as that would break there app store
    Edited by 1 at 27/01/10 @ 21:21

  • onezeonx #13 2 years ago

    iPass

  • zedzee #14 2 years ago

    Looks like an overgrown iPhone to me.

    What market is Apple aiming this at exactly? Because it looks huge!

    Notice how Steve Jobs said very little about the hardware and the focus was pretty much about the software in his presentation at the launch...
    Edited by 1 at 27/01/10 @ 21:40

  • Flying_Pig #15 2 years ago

    Look f*ckin' nice, but I bet it'll cost a bomb!

  • AngelAngelus #16 2 years ago

    Price is as follows according to the reports - Mr Jobs described the tablet, which will cost between $499 and $829 in the US, as a "third category" between smartphones and laptops - Thanks to the BBC article on this one. Also some of the things it can do is here as well - http://ne ws.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/84...
    Edited by 1 at 27/01/10 @ 21:49

  • beep #17 2 years ago

    It needs some kind of strap on accessories to stabilise it :)

  • dcangel #18 2 years ago

    I struggle to see the target market for this thing. It seems to be missing a number of really obvious features, like a webcam, a decent amount of storage (even 64GB I suspect will not go that far given what it's supposed to do), and the ability to not have to pay for yet another bloody data plan for yet another bloody cellular device. EDIT: Not to mention the screen resolution is too low and the aspect ratio is wrong.

    Apple seems to be straying ever further away from the "computers that work" market, in favour of the "expensive consumer toys for people who think they're painfully hip" niche.

    Actually, it occurs to me that Apple haven't had an original idea for some considerable time.
    Edited by 2 at 27/01/10 @ 22:40

  • markus_wallett #19 2 years ago

    The target market is the people who say the Touch/ifone is great, except the screen is far too small to be practical. Tablets are the future of computing, but Apple's pad is just not the device -- maybe Google or Acer will develop something more interesting that's reasonably priced and better specced.

  • IneptPercy #20 2 years ago

    I thought the market was sheep?

  • penhalion #21 2 years ago

    OI! DIZZY! NOOOOO!

    I had the same bloody though about family board games on the thing!

    Edit: I like sheeple! Don't frighten them away or I can't make millions off of their need to feel trendy and hip.
    Edited by 1 at 28/01/10 @ 00:34

  • Bander #22 2 years ago

    I look forward to seeing a lot of commuters' iPads falling on the floor.

    You won't be able to type or click hyperlinks with both hands on the device because human thumbs just aren't long enough. Along with similar slippery edges to the iPhone but with extra size and weight, this only really becomes practical if set down on a table top. Except the backside is curved. Oops.

  • MightyMouse #23 2 years ago

    Who knew? A tablet PC that's completely useless for everything!

    That said, does it actually have an OLED screen? I'd be surprised and impressed if so.

  • layleeloo #24 2 years ago

    FIT FIT FIT FIT FIT FIT FIT FIT FIT!

  • SavageEvil #25 2 years ago

    So um, what else can this thing do? Is it like a remote controller of sorts? That sure isn't a lot of memory for the money. 64Gig at 900 bucks? Wow is that the GDDR5 Ram or maybe it's Rambus Memory, that would explain the hefty price. Maybe it's a solid state drive? So for $900 I get a giant sized Ipod Touch with the same apps, same memory and inability to hide it in my pocket when i have to make a quick jaunt to the john? Very nice looking though, but as with me and all apple products, they stay on the store shelves. This will sell loads as we all know the lemmings will buy anything with an Apple logo pasted on a White lacquered surface. Hey you don't need this until Apple tells you that you do, and for that Price they will throw in free use of the Apple Online store, no nothing in the store is free, you are just free to pay for stuff you didn't know you needed until Apple says so.

  • Slipstream #26 2 years ago

    Too bad DSi is taken...

  • MORZTAN #27 2 years ago

    I must be old (28)...

    This thing doesn't appeal to me in any way whatsoever. I really cannot see what on earth I would use it for, and where. Is it supposed to be spectacular? It appears to me to be the most useless and superficial product ever made.

    No hate for Apple, but this is just plain useless. Think about it.

  • RedPanda #28 2 years ago

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  • ianegg #29 2 years ago

    No OLED :( backlit glossy screens are awful for reading, which is about the main thing I'd want to do with something like this. Lots of potential here, but a disappointing 1.0 for the iPad.

  • masterson #30 2 years ago

    I find I use my iPod touch quite a bit for web browsing "around the house" i.e. Sitting on the balcony, smoking out the window, sat on the sofa while my wife watches "Strictly come Dancing" or while having a poo. It's not too bad, but a bigger/higher res screen would make it far more usable. Some people buy netbooks to fill this gap. I'm not sure I understand how any of you cannot genuinely see the target audience - people that want to browse "in style" to whom 500 bucks is not a big issue. You may not fall into this category - but it certainly does exist.
    There were similar naysayers about the iPhone - but that seemed to work out alright for Apple. I'm not sure this will see the success of iPhone, but I can imagine it willl find it's audience. Not "sheeple", not "lemmings" = just people that like nicely designed things and can afford to pay for them. If that's not you = fair play, but no need to be a cunt about it. :)
    Edited by 2 at 28/01/10 @ 08:58

  • Buenos_Estente #31 2 years ago

    If i had money to burn would buy one to play around with.

    I dont so at the moment I wont.

  • MORZTAN #32 2 years ago

    I do have serious amounts of expendable cash, I do like nicely designed things and I'm no cunt. But I can't fanthom why I would need an iPad :)

  • napalm68 #33 2 years ago

    They sound basically like a big iPod touch. No proper OS. No camera. No phone, no 3g. It is a peripheral to a computer, not a replacement for it.

    If it was a tablet with a proper Mac OS on it I'd be more interested

  • septimus #34 2 years ago

    Should have used full blown OSX on the device. The iPhone OS on this just doesn't make sense, other than keeping costs down.

  • kinky_mong #35 2 years ago

    Who the fuck is that Keisha bint?! I keep getting assaulted by her awful music on Spotify ads and now she's somehow appearing in shots of the ipad?!

  • JDFreeman #36 2 years ago

    Looks good. But Closed system, no multi-tasking = Fail for me.

  • chiz #37 2 years ago

    No multi-tasking = massive fail. I can see Acer, Dell etc bringing out an android "pad" and blowing this out of the water.

    Feels like Betamax and the Sinclair C5 to me.

  • RodHull #38 2 years ago

    It'll sell like the proverbial warmed up buns. The apple zealots will be queueing up outside the stores as we speak. Just mosey over to twitter and observe the deranged rantings of the fry and the pegg.

    As for me, no thankyou. The only advantage it has over my iphone is a bigger screen. E-books remain terrible regardless of who makes them. And how can a screen be classified as HD if it's in 4:3 ratio? When was the last film released in that? It's like the 90s all over again: letterbox films and the return of the newton.

  • BOFH_UK #39 2 years ago

    *sigh* come on folks, this is a consumer-orientated device, stop thinking like geeks.

    The bulk of home users don't care about specs. They just don't. It's about looks and the interface and whether it'll do the basics well and you know what, this really really does hit the sweet spot on all of those. It's built like a Macbook Pro, those that have actually used it (and can set aside their geek cred for a moment) say it's superb and it'll do everything home users want it to do.

    If you want to use desktop apps, if you need multitasking in your life, if you have a desperate desire to have flash, then go buy a laptop. That's fine, no problems at all, they'll probably always be the prefered device for that sort of thing in the foreseable future. Me, I'm seriously considering an iPad as my home machine. I am sick to the back teeth of desktop OS's, of maintenance and anti-virus and having to lug a laptop around even though it's far from ideal for where and how I use it. Is this the answer? I think it might be, although of course there's only one way to really find out and that's to use it for a while, see how it goes. But I can't think of any missing feature that I really NEED or even really want and there's an awful lot of good here as well. See what the UK price is and whether they give it a good education discount (gotta love working for a uni).

  • Chazmeister #40 2 years ago

    What makes the iTouch and iPhone so popular is the fact that you can fit them in your pocket. If you need a bag to carry it around then you may as well buy a laptop, which for the same money as a 64Gb iPad you could get quite a good one with a lot more drive space and functionality than this pad. Tablet PC's with touch screens, which is essentially what this is, have been around for years and they haven't exactly taken the world by storm. I've no doubt that Apple devotees will make this a success but I don't think it'll be quite the hit with the public at large that the iPhone or iPod has been.

    One thing I'd like to know is, since it doesn't seem to have a lid, how do you stop the screen from getting scratched?

  • MyPointIs #41 2 years ago

    I see it as an electronic Shop-front (iShop would've been more honest): iTunes, AppStore, iBooks, iPayAT&T, iPayTheWashingtonPost, ...

    The only reason to buy it, is to buy more stuff with it. And it's all superfluous.

    Edit: I'm aware you could say the same thing about every games console :)
    Edited by 1 at 28/01/10 @ 10:53

  • gjgjg #42 2 years ago

    hmm, seems pretty inferior to what is already available. i need to sell some stuff at the moment, i think if i stick an apple logo on the back it will increase my chances... (of course i would need to raise the price, maybe add some gloss polish). braces for neg fanboy reaction...unless this story is dead already

  • Roland_on_the_Ropes #43 2 years ago

    Good article <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/27/ipad_comment/&q uot;> here
    Edited by 1 at 28/01/10 @ 12:03

  • SniperZoz #44 2 years ago

    iLike but iNotNeed and iDontThinkAnyoneDoes

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #45 2 years ago

    That said, does it actually have an OLED screen?

    No, it's LED backlit LCD, covered in oleophobic glass, much like iPhone 3GS.

  • bdgr #46 2 years ago

    sooooo, its just a chuffing big ipod?! and for $500-830 (according to the BBC website article). That just seems VERY expensive.

  • ant72 #47 2 years ago

    It's quite cool with the keyboard dock. I can see that working.

  • F3nNec #48 2 years ago

    iLold xD

  • crolink07 #49 2 years ago

    sranje
    Edited by 2 at 28/01/10 @ 15:04

  • Golgo #50 2 years ago

    What is it, a digital picture frame or summat?

  • jonbwfc #51 2 years ago

    Hmm.. a 32GB ipod touch on the US Apple Online shop is $299. A 32GB iPad is $599. Twice the screen, twice the cash? If you've got the money, it seems comparable value to the iPod Touch and they've sold sodding millions of them.

    I wouldn't have it over a decent notebook personally (not that you can get a decent notebook for $499. You can get a shit one though...), but I'd buy one for my parents in a second if I thought it meant they wouldn't be phoning me up every. sodding. day. because their PC is doing something 'funny'.

  • BadDevotions #52 2 years ago

    iDgaf
    Edited by 1 at 28/01/10 @ 16:37