|
|
|
01-27-2010, 09:21 PM
|
#1
|
CrackBerry Addict
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: South Texas and San Francisco
Model: z10
Carrier: att
Posts: 870
|
The iPad Is Garbage
Please Login to Remove!
Certainly given the following which I lifted from a tech site:
No GPS
No Camera
No Multitasking
No OLED Screen
An extremely disappointing 256 MB of RAM!
No Additional Touch Gestures
No Videocalling/conferencing/iChat
No Handwriting recognition
No Wireless Syncing of File Management
A Very Low Resolution Display with 25% fewer PPPs than the iPhone or iPod Touch
No integrated TV antenna or Radio antenna
No Video Out
No OTA Sync With Apple TV or Servers To Stream Video
No Low Reflective Screen Mode for high contrast Ebook Reading that doesn't hurt your eyes
Only 64 mbs of HDD space
No Gamepad attachment for Gaming With Physical Buttons/Tactile Feedback
No bluetooth, or ability to connect to a bluetooth mouse/keyboard
No RFID/IR to use it as a remote, or to tag it to yourself
No Replacable/Removable Batteries
No Flash support (no hulu.com)
No ability to connect to an extrernal hdd, or even an SDCard
A 1 Ghz processor that significantly slower than every single notebook on the market today, even the $199 ones.
And who greenlighted the name iMaxiPad. Does Apple not have at least one woman on their staff?
__________________
"I never met a man I didn't like."
Will Rogers
Redneck
|
Offline
|
|
01-27-2010, 09:43 PM
|
#2
|
BlackBerry God
Join Date: Jan 2005
Model: iOS 5
Carrier: VZW
Posts: 11,701
|
Similar bashing was rampant when the first iPhone was announced as well.
Last I checked, the iPhone is one of the most successful products ever put to market.
I suspect the iPad will follow suit with typical Apple cycle of release:
Rumor --> Hype --> Announcement --> Disappointment --> Bashing --> Acceptance --> Success --> PROFIT.
|
Offline
|
|
01-27-2010, 09:52 PM
|
#3
|
Appleinator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New Hampshire
Model: App6+
OS: AJBR549
PIN: Ask
Carrier: ATT & Verizon
Posts: 20,038
|
Kinda hard to bash with any credibility something that isn't in the hands of the consumer, has not been reviewed by any of the major suspects, nor has even crossed the eyes and hands of the OP.
|
Offline
|
|
01-27-2010, 10:17 PM
|
#4
|
Thumbs Must Hurt
Join Date: Feb 2009
Model: 9700
OS: 5.0.0.602
PIN: the tail on the donkey
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 57
|
Probably will make their 3G network performance worse, though.
|
Offline
|
|
01-27-2010, 10:28 PM
|
#5
|
BlackBerry Extraordinaire
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: British Columbia
Model: 8520
OS: 5.0.0.509
PIN: N/A
Carrier: Rogers
Posts: 2,021
|
I think it's too early to form an concrete opinion, especially when none of us have actually used or tried it.
All we can go by now is others reviews.
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 03:28 AM
|
#6
|
BlackBerry Extraordinaire
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Los Angeles
Model: None
PIN: N/A
Carrier: ATT
Posts: 1,638
|
For where it's designed to fit in, it's interesting. It's obviously not a notebook replacement, and the itouch always seemed too small for video to me. With itunes and an ebook app, it's going to be able to provide a lot of media.
The worst thing about the BB for me is the web browser. So I'd love a supplemental device, but an itouch isn't useful enough, and carrying a laptop around is cumbersome, particularly with the power adapter.
One more generation of this to add a camera and fix bugs and it's a definite maybe.
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 06:36 AM
|
#7
|
BBF Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Southern Florida
Model: 9650
OS: 6.0.0.333
Carrier: Verizon BIS
Posts: 14,484
|
Wirelessly posted (Lets Go Canes!)
It is indeed too early to judge. I do hope for a windows based competitor however. Maybe I will need to wait for the ipad plus or whatever the sophmore device may be.
__________________
------
Follow @akosnitzky on Twitter
LET'S GO CANES!
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 07:23 AM
|
#8
|
iPhone Convert
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Tulip City - MI
Model: iP5
OS: 6.0.2
PIN: to beans
Carrier: I'm not
Posts: 13,878
|
Sorry, but iPad name makes me think of the feminine hygeine aisle at the store.
Apparently now....there's an app for that.
__________________
No longer a BES Admin, but it was fun while it lasted!
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 07:27 AM
|
#9
|
Magic Bananas
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Braselton, Georgia
Model: iP4S
OS: 5.1
Carrier: Verizon
Posts: 2,350
|
Wow, guinda35. If you are going to bash an unreleased product, you could at least get the specs right. Sad.
__________________
Ian
Semper Fi 3/2/2
"Wow" is now overused. Therefore, I will use "Magic bananas" instead.
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 07:28 AM
|
#10
|
Appleinator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New Hampshire
Model: App6+
OS: AJBR549
PIN: Ask
Carrier: ATT & Verizon
Posts: 20,038
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by juwaack68
Apparently now....there's an app for that.
|
I am not even going to try to imagine how .......
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 07:33 AM
|
#11
|
CrackBerry Addict
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Trinidad and Tobago
Model: 9700
OS: 5.0.0.656
PIN: 2168B71A
Carrier: bmobile
Posts: 644
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by juwaack68
Sorry, but iPad name makes me think of the feminine hygeine aisle at the store.
Apparently now....there's an app for that.
|
Personally, I'm going to hold out until next year when they unveil the..........iPad mini. It will just be the iPhone without the phone. No...wait a minute...they already have that...it's the iPod Touch....
FAIL!
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 09:19 AM
|
#12
|
No longer Registered.
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: NJ
Model: WP7
OS: The Best
Carrier: AT&T
Posts: 1,930
|
OP, thank you for your insightful review of a product NO ONE even has used yet. Based on your opinion, I now have no reason to ever want or buy this device.
/s
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 10:48 AM
|
#13
|
BlackBerry Genius
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Houston, Texas
Model: 5S
OS: 10.0.2
PIN: & Teller
Carrier: Verizon
Posts: 5,627
|
Well, the spelling is rather close to iPod. Remember that one?
__________________
There is no Hope. She left last week.
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 02:01 PM
|
#14
|
BlackBerry Extraordinaire
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Los Angeles
Model: None
PIN: N/A
Carrier: ATT
Posts: 1,638
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by juwaack68
Sorry, but iPad name makes me think of the feminine hygeine aisle at the store.
Apparently now....there's an app for that.
|
CNBC is discussing this exact issue right now.
One of the commentators threw out the names itablet or iMoses. iMoses would have been a great name. Jobs could have descended from a hill in period clothes and I bet people wouldn't have batted an eye.
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 04:28 PM
|
#15
|
BlackBerry Extraordinaire
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: British Columbia
Model: 8520
OS: 5.0.0.509
PIN: N/A
Carrier: Rogers
Posts: 2,021
|
Or iTab. iTab would have been better than iPad.
"Jobs could have descended from a hill in period clothes and I bet people wouldn't have batted an eye"
I can picture that! Haha.
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 07:04 PM
|
#16
|
BlackBerry Genius
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Houston, Texas
Model: 5S
OS: 10.0.2
PIN: & Teller
Carrier: Verizon
Posts: 5,627
|
How about Newton.
__________________
There is no Hope. She left last week.
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 08:29 PM
|
#17
|
Magic Bananas
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Braselton, Georgia
Model: iP4S
OS: 5.1
Carrier: Verizon
Posts: 2,350
|
Used to have a few of those, actually. Loved them. The iPad (I really wish it had a different name) is starting to seem more interesting to me the more I look into it. But as several reviewers have suggested, I will wait to pass final judgement once I can actually hold one and experience one.
My biggest (no pun intended) concerns at the moment center around it's size. It may not seem too big once I can pick it up, but I won't definitively know until then.
__________________
Ian
Semper Fi 3/2/2
"Wow" is now overused. Therefore, I will use "Magic bananas" instead.
Last edited by ifonline; 01-28-2010 at 08:32 PM..
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 08:31 PM
|
#18
|
Magic Bananas
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Braselton, Georgia
Model: iP4S
OS: 5.1
Carrier: Verizon
Posts: 2,350
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by akosnitzky
Wirelessly posted (Lets Go Canes!)
It is indeed too early to judge. I do hope for a windows based competitor however. Maybe I will need to wait for the ipad plus or whatever the sophmore device may be.
|
Don't forget HP's offering: The HP Slate -- Engadget
It's getting lukewarm acceptance, but to me it looks pretty interesting.
__________________
Ian
Semper Fi 3/2/2
"Wow" is now overused. Therefore, I will use "Magic bananas" instead.
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 08:51 PM
|
#19
|
BlackBerryForums.com Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Florida
Model: 9650
OS: 6.0.0.280
PIN: I heard it drop!
Carrier: VZW BIS
Posts: 6,534
|
As mobile and as powerful as smart phones are, is the market for tablet PCs still that strong?
__________________
8830 -> 8330 -> 9550 -> 9650
Just think about how far BlackBerries have come from then till now... And what else is coming.
Follow me on Twitter
|
Offline
|
|
01-28-2010, 09:17 PM
|
#20
|
Magic Bananas
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Braselton, Georgia
Model: iP4S
OS: 5.1
Carrier: Verizon
Posts: 2,350
|
Was it ever really that strong? Microsoft has tried for years to make something out of Tablet PCs, but it never really seemed to catch on outside of specialized markets. However, I think it might be a bit dismissive to consider the iPad a Tablet PC.
As others have noted around the web, it is a giant iPod Touch/iPhone more than anything. I consider a Tablet PC a full OS laptop minus the keyboard, something the iPad isn't (I don't think). It doesn't run OS X and can't run OS X applications. It can run iPhone applications, however, and is entirely based on the iPhone OS. It's a media-centric tablet, but not a Tablet PC (note the clever use of capitalization).
Of course, now that I've said all that, I'm not sure if you were asking in regards to the iPad or the HP Slate. In the case of the HP Slate, it is a traditional Tablet PC that is aiming for more media-centric use, but it is still a Tablet PC at its core. Not sure how that will work out, as the complaints I have followed regarding Tablet PCs is that because they use a full laptop OS, they are difficult to navigate unless using a stylus.
__________________
Ian
Semper Fi 3/2/2
"Wow" is now overused. Therefore, I will use "Magic bananas" instead.
Last edited by ifonline; 01-28-2010 at 09:20 PM..
|
Offline
|
|
|
|