More like they should have implemented a system where by the iPhone can share its 3G connection with the iPad, using USB, Bluetooth or WiFi.
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More like they should have implemented a system where by the iPhone can share its 3G connection with the iPad, using USB, Bluetooth or WiFi.
Don't forget that youtube is not the only video streaming out there. With other players you are out of luck with ipad
A lot of other video providers just link to a h264 file that embeds in quicktime, this is how iPlayer works on iPhone anyway.
I think you you're giving apple too little credit. It was obviously a conconcious decision by them to use the new sims, probably to stop you from hot-swapping your sim card from your iPhone. Also these mini sims are the future. Someones gotta do it first.
The iPad won't be able to take phone calls either so hot swapping your sim would be a bad idea anyway...
More sites will begin to use html5 in the future.
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Then they'd probably have to open it up to all laptops, etc to avoid being sued.
If this had been more like the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid, then it could've been an interesting piece of kit, as it stands I just cant really see the point, particularly if you already have an iphone and a laptop.
Tethering murders the battery on iPhones, or any phones for that. Easy way to swap the sim out would be an easy enough option, and nicer than a USB cable.
Too easy ?, I think you'll find the opposite is the case
Both Sims and the sim contacts on a iphone would not stand up to be inserted / ejected several times a day.
If they did as you suggest every iphone out there would break when used this way, not good for apple
In other news I dno if Im buying a MBP until the refresh (whenever that happens)
my sister has just this second orderd the 13 mbp.
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They do, I use my iPhone to tether my laptop all the time.
I'm haven't decided about this yet, but a thought did occur to me: This would be PERFECT for my mum.
My mum has a crappy wee £400 laptop at the moment. She surfs the web, sends and receives emails, listens to music, watches some videos, looks at photos, and types out documents and spreadsheets.
If I got her one of these £500 jobbies for her Christmas, she'd have something half decent to replace her laptop with. If I got her the keyboard dock thing, she could type out her documents and emails fast, exactly how she does it now. It's safe, secure, easy to use, easy to install new apps on (With thousands already available). And when she's not using it she can have it sat on her sideboard like a picture frame.
There's only one problem...it can't print stuff. And she prints stuff all the time.
My mum has a crappy wee £400 laptop at the moment. She surfs the web, sends and receives emails, listens to music, watches some videos, looks at photos, and types out documents and spreadsheets.
If I got her one of these £500 jobbies for her Christmas, she'd have something half decent to replace her laptop with. If I got her the keyboard dock thing, she could type out her documents and emails fast, exactly how she does it now. It's safe, secure, easy to use, easy to install new apps on (With thousands already available). And when she's not using it she can have it sat on her sideboard like a picture frame.
There's only one problem...it can't print stuff. And she prints stuff all the time.
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Not to mention, outside the geek-o-sphere, who wants to be swapping sim cards between devices?
er come again? this is a joke I assume. were in 2010...
it cant multi-task (which means its just an iPhone on an American diet).
Crikey... they are really pushing the lower bounderies of their target audiences intellect aren't they. Quite amusing when you think about it.
This sums up my attitude to it too.
I'd much rather prefer one over a netbook as the screen is bigger and all I'd do on a netbook is browse the net and tap out the odd email. The iPad looks like a far better way of doing those things for me.
