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Oh. That is a bit disappointing. It looks like a digital photo frame with it's big old bezel.

And it's got a backlit screen, so no better to read on than a normal screen.

Ah well. Got an iPhone and got an ebook reader, so it seems I have all bases covered already.
 
It wont cost them a single sale though will it really? And they will make it available later, plus there is likely to be a delay before availability of the actual device to give people plenty of time to drool.

It doesn't do their slick image any good. And people are far from drooling over an oversized iphone anyway.
 
Im not sure typing a lot on tablets will ever be really good, they will try to focus on tasks that dont require too much typing, and perhaps an option to use separate bluetooth keyboard if you want to do more typing.

9.7" display.
 
Apple really is shooting itself in the foot massively by not casting this themselves. Instead letting very very dodgy, geeky pirate versions go. Weird.

part of the hype innit. It'll be on youtube within minutes.

My partner going to be happy at least I'm not going to blowing the housekeeping. I'll stick with my Ipod-touch and MBP.
 
I'll be stickin to my iMac and iPod touch for when im on the move... why the hell would u invest in that?? There's nothing added so far.
 
It's unlikely to be launched till at least May, I reckon.

March if we are really lucky. June at the worst.

10 hours of battery (so probably 5-8 hours depending on what you are doing)

16 to 64GB storage.

Hardware is turning out to be quite close to what I expected. Seen some people act surprised that it doesnt seem to have flash support, dont know why they were expecting it to have flash, think its quite clear apple has a strategy to sideline flash.

Want to know what the screen res is.
 
Crucially for an apple product, it doesn't look good. Coz lets face it, thats half the reason we love them...

Whats with the massive black border? Thats the shit thing about it. Course we dont know the price yet.
 
10 hours of video is pretty good, even allowing for a reality version of that number.

Am slightly underwhelmed though. Nothing overly wrong with it, but no OMG feature.
 
What were people expecting that are underwhelmed? I perhaps expected more in terms of UI evolution and some more killer apps, but other than that its as expected.
 
Whats with the massive black border? Thats the shit thing about it. Course we dont know the price yet.

Its where your thumbs will go when you hold it without obscuring the screen. It makes it look a bit clunky but without that space people would be upset when they actually came to hold one to read or watch stuff on.
 
No mention of 3G. Which limits it A LOT. I presume tethering to the iphone so you can drain its battery instead of the iPad.
 
Its where your thumbs will go when you hold it without obscuring the screen. It makes it look a bit clunky but without that space people would be upset when they actually came to hold one to read or watch stuff on.

Good point.
 
I can't believe this does not take a sim for a 3G network. No mention of this so far?

Apple of all people now know that being fully connected is quite an important aspect of such a device. Just empowering it with Wifi really cripples its as a device. Still no mention of connectivity yet, I could be wrong.
 
Ok, so no flash... again.. what the fuck is going on there?

Apple want to avoid flash for more than one reason. Probably to do with wanting to make sure developers do things apples way, a few practical issues with performance & battery, multitouch issues, and perhaps some conflict between Apple and Adobe.

I dont mind this at all because as an alternative to flash apple have done good things for web standards, such as hardware accelerated css transforms and support of the html5 video tag.
 
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