The Apple Tablet

[mmauve]

buddy the 3g models will be unlocked

Once again: it's unlocked

Yeah, I got that the first time, its "unlocked"...to GSM, almost an oxymoron in itself. That's like being told that you're free to roam around anywhere inside your jail cell lol. I get a fantastic choice between AT&T, or T-Mobile, or whatever off-shoot carrier pending on location. A contiguous United States CDMA option (and others would agree, I assure) would have been preferable to offer to consumers who don't want to be limited to WiFi, but I can honestly say I wasn't expecting much in that department considering contractual obligations AT&T and Apple have with one another.

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I personally have had enough issues in the past (as with everyone else I know) with iPhone connectivity and dumped Cingular/AT&T (whatever they are calling themselves this week) and went to Verizon. Couldn't be happier, and the ongoing cellular holy war over at Engadget (source: Verizon's ads attacking AT&T coverage, pick any of their articles) shows a clear amount of disgruntled users who have made similar moves in service.
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I'm not even going to bother talking about T-Mobile and their reliability or ability to recover from technical disasters. Their credibility as a carrier is about as easy to knock over as a house made from a deck of cards lol.

[Nephew]

It seems like their answer to the netbook at the moment, based on it's size and the stats it's boasting.

[Foxfire]

Yeah, I got that the first time, its "unlocked"...to GSM, almost an oxymoron in itself. That's like being told that you're free to roam around anywhere inside your jail cell lol. I get a fantastic choice between AT&T, or T-Mobile, or whatever off-shoot carrier pending on location. A contiguous United States CDMA option (and others would agree, I assure) would have been preferable to offer to consumers who don't want to be limited to WiFi, but I can honestly say I wasn't expecting much in that department considering contractual obligations AT&T and Apple have with one another.

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I personally have had enough issues in the past (as with everyone else I know) with iPhone connectivity and dumped Cingular/AT&T (whatever they are calling themselves this week) and went to Verizon. Couldn't be happier, and the ongoing cellular holy war over at Engadget (source: Verizon's ads attacking AT&T coverage, pick any of their articles) shows a clear amount of disgruntled users who have made similar moves in service.
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I'm not even going to bother talking about T-Mobile and their reliability or ability to recover from technical disasters. Their credibility as a carrier is about as easy to knock over as a house made from a deck of cards lol.

GSM is definitely more of a standard than CDMA, though. A CDMA version would ONLY sell here, whereas GSM would (will) sell like hotcakes.

[TWD]

I agree that it would only be useful as an accessory, and not an all in one thing. It's simply not enough to make me ditch my more powerful laptop, and Traktor software. My main issue here is that it's still just using the iphone OS.

[BestLegsinHD]

not sure if i want to be constantly connected to the internet just yet. seems like a cool product, but i bit redundant if you dont plan on getting the 'net on it and already have a laptop.

i'm sure there is a market for this kind of thing.

i wonder how the lemur company will respond to this

[Chilly]

So for the last couple days I've been going back and forth between splurging on a midi fighter.

I'm thinking I"m going to wait now. If this thing can do 1/2 of what we speculate it can do, it might be a worthwhile investment.

The iPhone is the iTampon to the iPad.

HA

[lsmith]

"There's no multitasking at all. It's a real disappointment."
roflmao, omg omg, lol .. or maybe just WTF!?!!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/a...irst-hands-on/

[mmauve]

GSM is definitely more of a standard than CDMA, though. A CDMA version would ONLY sell here, whereas GSM would (will) sell like hotcakes.

Yeah, true there :/

[jasonj]

The iPad is retarded. Its just a bigger iPod Touch.

Is apple afraid of producing an actual tablet machine?

[nicolas]

kind of dissapointed, I know it's firts gen, but somehow I expected a little bit more.
Multitouch screens are for sure one of the most important feautures for digital djs in the near future but this machine is still missing something... I don't know...

But I heard that some of the best apps for Iphone are making thousands of dollars a month... there's a bigger business for programers right ahead.