Apple finally announces iPad

iSlate was a better name.

Just waiting to choke on the price…

I bet female hygiene companies are kicking themselves now.

Crap name, poor looks.
Typical Apple.
There’s been some really odd comments through the live feed as well. Controls for some games don’t seem to be reveolutionising anything.
It just appears to be making things really fiddly.

Wonder when this will release since the Apple store isn’t down.

It’s just a big ipod touch. It runs the same apps on the same software. No flash support either it seems.

iDontCare

$499 though it could be worse. Just wonder what the sterling price will be.

$699 (64gb) is the real price ($829 if you want 3G)!

“So $499 for 16GB of iPad. That’s our base model. 32GB is $599, 64GB is $799. 3G models cost an extra $130. $629, 729, and 829 with 3G.”

Nintendo watch out /yeah right…

That’s probably going to translate directly into pounds, I’d say…

Can’t see it being any cheaper than £400, anyway.

I’d like to see it on video, but it looks ugly in the pics.

Screen res. looks all messed up too. A huge screen with a handful of spaced out, tiny icons looks a bit pants.

So, after all that, I have decided it is shit.

It’ll sell in it’s hundreds. But it is shit.

Ugly

i cant stop laughing at this pointless piece of shit. 1ghz ‘apple’ processor lol quality! Especially how Jobs claims that netbooks are slow. Even the junk from PC world/tesco will be faster than this

Yeah, I was excited about it it based on some of the concept stuff, but I’m not interested now.

Oh well… At least I should be happy, since I’ve just instantly saved myself about £400!

WOO HOO!

Nah, don’t see the pull of this. It doesn’t seem to bring anything new to the table, being nothing more than a large HD iPod. I expected a lot more.

Storage kills this for me (as well as the probable captive battery).

iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BUH9eXy18

This should have come BEFORE the iPhone.

Seems to be a bit of a fail overall. There’s no killer app games, the storage is too small for an HD device (dunno the actual screen res, probably 720p), and no support for Adobe Flash. I’d say you’re much better off with a netbook.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8484060.stm

so it is
iBalls
or
iHairyBalls
or
yep yeah yeah me and balls
drunk me sorry
im going to sleep now
iSleep
bye

Flash will come, you can almost guarantee it.

As for 3g, TBH, 3G is a total waste, what about Edge!? Plus there are enough open wifi spots around that it’ll be fine, 64GB Wifi – SOLD!

looks like these ´digital screen picture frames´don´t know how you call them—so if it sucks you can still nail it on the wall and use it as decoration…great.

C4 news stated ‘upto £500′. I doubt it.

“Flash will come, you can almost guarantee it.”

They said that for the iphone! I remain unconvinced.

Updated the post with relevant information.

I think it looks great. My iPhone is good for certain things but I’ve never really been a big iPhone gamer. I think the bigger screen will really allow for better visuals and control placement. It could be a winner.

I have nothing against the product itself, but the name sounds disconcertingly like a lady’s hygiene product.

All I know, is that thanks to this oversize iPod Touch, the internet broke, and is still spinning slowing here in the States for no reason at all. Talk about anti-climatic.

/channels inner Chuck Heston

Thanks Steve. You Maniac! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

/releases Chuck Heston

@ revolting: MAD Tv – iPad (done long ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs

What, not one ‘who shrunk Steve Jobs’ comment?

Anyway, who shrunk Steve Jobs and made him hold up an iTouch?

Surely the ‘hot run’ is about to come unstuck with that big looking baby?

I’m sure a few women from DVD’s I’ve seen could fit iPad in their woman parts.

\o/

…looks more like an over-sized iPhone…

It does. I bet its got just as many limitations as one to, probably will need hacking before its even slightly interesting.

We’ve got you covered their Geki, over at eurogamer we are scoffing at the lack of multi-tasking!

Will see how the non gimped v2 works out… because we all know it’s coming. ETA? When all the zealots have got their new shinysparkly purchased.

iMeh.

iPass, thx.
In other news, it seems that Twitter agreed with me. iTampon is now one of the highest trending topics. Good on ya, internets.

@Eregol
“poor looks. Typical Apple.”

Er … ok cos that’s the general consensus on Apple stuff isn’t it? Overpriced and gimped, typical Apple yes.

@Grimrita
RE: Processor. The problem with the junk from Tesco/PC World is not the speed of the processor, it’s the OS.

My general impressions are disappointing. It is just a bigger iPhone in essence. Not much more. It does look very nice in use mind, which I guess is the point.

@Grimrita
Just to re-iterate this CPU point. Engadget and Gizmodo have both put up hands on impressions highlighting the strong and weak points.

From Engadget … “The speed of the CPU is something to be marveled at. It is blazingly fast from what we can tell. Webpages loaded up super fast, and scrolling was without a hiccup. Moving into and out of apps was a breeze. Everything flew.”

From Gizmodo … “Apple didn’t really sell this point, but it’s the single biggest benefit of the iPad: speed. It feels at least a generation faster than the iPhone 3GS. Lags and waits are gone, and the OS and apps respond just as quickly as you’d hope. Rotating between portrait and landscape modes, especially, is where this new horsepower manifests in the OS.”

@ Drdamn – reviews/previews mean nothing to me and being a ‘generation faster than the iphone’ doesnt impress me at all.

Jobs is a really clever guy and Gates stole his ideas to create windows so I would be optimistic about the future of this product.

@Grimrita
Ok – ignore balanced impressions by people who have used it and stick to your poorly founded ideas about CPU speed then.

I just don’t need this thing.

Have you watched the vid of it in use DrDamn? Quicker than an iPhone it may be (I don’t have one)… but I wouldn’t call it quick.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/apple-ipad-first-hands-on/

Press -> Delay -> Action

@PT
Yeah I watched the vids. What are you talking about in the delay? Launch of apps or apps in use. Apps in use like the photos, browsing, books, video etc looks zippy to me.

You can’t see that? It does it multiple times in the first 20 seconds (and in many other places throughout the vid).

Watch as the buttons are pressed and it thinks about it before pulling up menus or changing the screen. Like I said, I’ve not used an iPhone so it might be virtually instant compared to that… but if I went from my PC to the iPad the little delays would irritate me.