iPad on a flight?

lmfy2k · 1 Oct 2012 at 09:34

what do you do about power? ie to charge the ipad on a flight?

bhavv · 1 Oct 2012 at 09:40

Jokester said:
I would imagine you could still get a fair bit of explosives inside an iPad if you emptied it out of its gubbons.

*Purchases iPad.

shimy182 · 1 Oct 2012 at 09:44

Glaucus said:
everyone just gets their devices out.

　Interesting .... what airline do you fly with?

l

Cosimo · 1 Oct 2012 at 09:50

shimy182 said:
　Interesting .... what airline do you fly with?

l

It's Ladyboy Air.

Cosimo · 1 Oct 2012 at 10:01

King Damager said:
Now this would be cool! Somehow I think this would beat Angry Birds for downloads if you could do this...

kd

Look shifty and show your fellow passengers this:

Raymond Lin · 1 Oct 2012 at 10:32

Caged said:
Let's be honest, the iPad market pretty much is the tablet market.

Pretty much, last time through customs they say

"Could passengers please take out your Laptop and iPads from you bags please"

Rather than "tablet".

The world iPad has gone into the English langage as much as hoover now.

Edrof · 1 Oct 2012 at 10:37

ElliorR said:
Not as catchy as Snakes on a Plane.

Darn, I came in to make that joke

Kosmiche · 1 Oct 2012 at 10:39

Last flight I went on we were told to turn off all devices including those with aircraft modes.

I think it was just take off and landing though, I didn't pay much attention was reading a book.

Firestar_3x · 1 Oct 2012 at 11:06

Raymond Lin said:
Pretty much, last time through customs they say

"Could passengers please take out your Laptop and iPads from you bags please"

Rather than "tablet".

The world iPad has gone into the English langage as much as hoover now.

Ah, it's the good old Hoover / Vacuum cleaner situation all over again.

Cosimo · 1 Oct 2012 at 11:11

Firestar_3x said:
Ah, it's the good old Hoover / Vacuum cleaner situation all over again.

Please let’s not start another Apple love/hate thirty page thread again.

Ev0 · 1 Oct 2012 at 12:35

Firestar_3x said:
Ah, it's the good old Hoover / Vacuum cleaner situation all over again.

Friend of mine recently got a job at dyson, the recruiter kept reminding him to never ever call a dyson vacuum a Hoover in any of the interviews

chipachap · 1 Oct 2012 at 12:52

Glaucus said:
Never had a problem, even the flights that tell you to check electronic devices with staff have never said anything, everyone just gets their devices out.

Lol

jamief · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:01

lmfy2k said:
what do you do about power? ie to charge the ipad on a flight?

I'd be surprised if you could run down the battery during anything but a very long haul flight.

chipachap · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:02

jamief said:
I'd be surprised if you could run down the battery during anything but a very long haul flight.

8+ hours battery on them IIRC. Also Wi-fi and display takes up like 40-60% of the power. With Wi-fi off and brightness down to 0 it should last 10+ hours.

Yas786 · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:37

lmfy2k said:
what do you do about power? ie to charge the ipad on a flight?

Depends on who you are flying with?? I flew out to Brisbane via Singapore on Singapore airlines and they had a usb port where you could charge your devices. So i just charged up my BB playbook, my SGS3 and my BB 9900 when they were almost empty. Found they had usb ports on the A380 and the A330 which i jumped on from Singapore to Brisbane. Mind you this was economy, pretty sure in business and first they had 2 or more usb ports from which you could charge your devices.

Raymond Lin · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:45

3 pin power socket on Cathay pacific, could recharge my laptop mid flight.

mejinks · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:47

Caged said:
Let's be honest, the iPad market pretty much is the tablet market.

Raymond Lin said:
Pretty much, last time through customs they say

"Could passengers please take out your Laptop and iPads from you bags please"

Rather than "tablet".

The world iPad has gone into the English langage as much as hoover now.

64% is hardly the whole market and its not a part of the language other than amongst fanbois.

Firestar_3x · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:49

mejinks said:
64% is hardly the whole market and its not a part of the language other than amongst fanbois.

Android defence league?

inogen · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:57

mejinks said:
64% is hardly the whole market and its not a part of the language other than amongst fanbois.

Nah I dunno about that. Everyone knows what an iPad is. Even people that don't know what a "tablet" is.

It's not the same as "Hoover" because an iPad has a certain luxury/status thing going on which stops people using iPad like that in case they look pretentious. It also doesn't lend itself particularly well to being used as a verb, like hoovering or googling. But it's still in common usage far more than "tablet" is.

Energizer Bunny · 1 Oct 2012 at 13:59

My iPad has been crashing the plane lately, killing me every time.

Frankly it is becoming annoying.