*** The all new Apple iPad thread - Keep all iPad stuff in here ***
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No contracts at the minute i am afraid. i wouldn't count it out in the future though but just not quite yet
Loving the iPad when i can get it off the kids. Angry Birds keeps em quiet.
Used it last night for editing pics on. Upload from camera with the "Camera Connector Kit" then edit with FilterStorm and finally upload to Flickr. All from the comfort of comfy chair in the lounge.
Used it last night for editing pics on. Upload from camera with the "Camera Connector Kit" then edit with FilterStorm and finally upload to Flickr. All from the comfort of comfy chair in the lounge.
Yer.. quite a bit. I think its worth it though, but they need more frequent updatesBlimey, iPad version is expensive isn't it?
No luck here. None of the usb 2 ports on my custom PC charge the iPad fullstop, and as my mobo is a 2007 AWD9-MAX, there hasn't been bios upgrades in years. I've got a sneaky suspicion it's just Win7 being typically rubbish. I'll dual boot into Vista at some point to test this theory out.
I've got to charge the thing off the mains it seems with the pad on the floor :/
Why on the floor :S?
/sighThe iPhone usb charge cable is too short to properly reach my desk lol. I'll look into a proper solution by the end of the week
Cost like £2 max
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Well I'm taking it you mean iPad and not iPod
Well the capacity is 14GB (iTunes reading)
Applications vary in size. My smallest applications are things like SpliBrowser, facebook. These are under 1MB. My biggest application is 443MB, 396,362,314,276,215,213,193,183,173,127,127,110,102. Those are obviously all games. *I don't have then all synced*
The OS is fine in my opinion. Browsing the web is great, i have a tiny problem with the music application but its tiny and being fussy.. etc etc. I did jailbreak though just because then I can do MORE. The multitasking for a start, hiding applications is something rather important for me. Being able to download files (though I'm not sure if there's an app store app which can do this now) earlier i downloaded a South Park episode from a website. Then other things like SBSettings so i can change my brightness quickly and easily, wi-fi on and off. But the default OS is fine but its nice to customise stuff a bit. Would be nice if we could delete apple apps which we don't use such as I won't ever use contacts (not sure if there's the weather on there or not... for some reason they didn't add things like clock and calculator'
Actually I did mean iPod - I was trying to make a comparison to how much the iPod os/firmware uses of the advertised size, compared to the iPad with a more rich os/abilities but also more likely to run out (as expansion is impossilbe)
OK, so the beta of iOS 4.2 is pretty neat. I'm not usually one for getting excited about printing, but just using a shared USB printer - it's scary-easy!
Multi-tasking works as expected, though not quite as fluid as on the iP4. Hopefully that's the beta OS and not the hardware!
Looking forward to future betas!
EDIT: Did a video of the printing - http://www.the-iblog.com/2010/09/15/ios-4-2-printing-from-an-ipad-video
Multi-tasking works as expected, though not quite as fluid as on the iP4. Hopefully that's the beta OS and not the hardware!
Looking forward to future betas!
EDIT: Did a video of the printing - http://www.the-iblog.com/2010/09/15/ios-4-2-printing-from-an-ipad-video
oh okActually I did mean iPod - I was trying to make a comparison to how much the iPod os/firmware uses of the advertised size, compared to the iPad with a more rich os/abilities but also more likely to run out (as expansion is impossilbe)
I swear there's applications which do this though? But i think at the moment they need to be wireless printers so can't be from a usb one. Can't see that much use for it myself. If we can print photos then it will be cool
Hoping 4.2 gets jailbroken. I will hopefully be able to disable apples MT and use backgrounder
Not sure what else is in the update.. games centre, um
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Hmm my take on the iOS 4.2 beta 1 is:
multi-tasking, folders, unified inbox, threaded messages, multiple exchange accounts - a welcome though expected addition to bring the ipad up to the same capability as other iOS 4 devices.
performance - abysmal in places.
bugs - lots of them in places you wouldn't expect. I've experienced lots of issues with the system settings not remembering changes, airplane mode becoming inaccessible, inability to enable wifi. All issues resolved initially by resetting the device but it doesn't take long before they reappear.
3G - extremely unreliable.
mute button - I can live with.
I fear I will be downgrading back to version 3 this evening and leaving the beta just for the simulator.
multi-tasking, folders, unified inbox, threaded messages, multiple exchange accounts - a welcome though expected addition to bring the ipad up to the same capability as other iOS 4 devices.
performance - abysmal in places.
bugs - lots of them in places you wouldn't expect. I've experienced lots of issues with the system settings not remembering changes, airplane mode becoming inaccessible, inability to enable wifi. All issues resolved initially by resetting the device but it doesn't take long before they reappear.
3G - extremely unreliable.
mute button - I can live with.
I fear I will be downgrading back to version 3 this evening and leaving the beta just for the simulator.
Only if a developer 'adds your iPad' to his account. Not sure how that all works out.
oh ok
I swear there's applications which do this though? But i think at the moment they need to be wireless printers so can't be from a usb one. Can't see that much use for it myself. If we can print photos then it will be cool
Hoping 4.2 gets jailbroken. I will hopefully be able to disable apples MT and use backgrounder
Not sure what else is in the update.. games centre, um
Yup, can do pics. I need to update the post.