Well, that seems strange. How come no one but you knows about this? Is
this color and touch screen? What size?
Let's face it...size does matter here. A tiny phone screen is only
useful sometimes.....it's not the device I want to have in my living
room. I can't see reading a book on a tiny screen....don't really want
to read the web on them either. Picture & videos are too small...too
much of a compromise. Yeah, though, I'd rather not have to be a victim
of the Apple/Job control.
On 1/28/2010 1:24 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
They do. Its called the archos 7 (and I think 9). Google chrome, the whole
works. Oh, about $150 less, and yes, it can run Kindle software, so ebooks
still work fine.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Bino Gopal"<binogo...@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:14:53
To:<hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition?
I guess I was looking at it from the perspective of it being nice to have in
the living room when I wanted to use a browser/look things up w/o the whole
having to boot up a laptop and all that.
I do have a 3GS but the screen is just too small to really easily do stuff
on it and the increased screen size on the iPad is useful. I also do like
the multitouch interface; one reason I'm leaning towards it.
But at the same time it seems so limited that I'm thinking that there will
be better alternatives that will do more for OS...can anyone imagine the
Google Android equivalent?! That would be awesome!
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:12 PM
To: hardware
Subject: Re: [H] The iPad vs the competition?
If I didn't already have an iPhone 3GS I would definitely be interested.
But as it stands, my iPhone does everything the iPad does (just, smaller,
which isn't a big deal.
The killer app for me would be the ability to subscribe to all of my dead
tree magazines in ebook form on the iPad, and make notes, annotations, and
lookup references. When that arrives, I'm there.
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, DSinc<dx7...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Bino,
With this share you seem to be the Uber-Early-Adopter-Candidate.
I checked today and it seems that NO further info about access to an iPad
will be available until March or April.
But, I suppose the "Speculation-Masters" are now in full gear.
To me, it is just another Apple appliance........ :)
Best,
Duncan
On 01/27/2010 16:25, Bino Gopal wrote:
So I'll bring it up: what do people think of the iPad? I can already
guess
at the level of disinterest and disdain on this list (so no need to vent
it
here in response), so what I'm more looking for is more factual
evaluations
of the features and how it compares to equivalent solutions out there
now,
or that people expect to come out in the next few months.
I have a T61 but it's getting old and would like to get a tablet PC-type
of
device, and am expecting that the upcoming Win7 tablets should blow the
iPad
out of the water in price and features right? Anyone got their eye on a
particular one coming out soon?
BINO
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