With the premise that the biggest use of a NFC chip is to act as a surrogate wallet, why would you ever want to use your iPad as a wallet?
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With the premise that the biggest use of a NFC chip is to act as a surrogate wallet, why would you ever want to use your iPad as a wallet?
It's Apple's way and has been for the last decade. This is an incremental spec upgrade but Apple zealots will still lap it up as a major redesign.
I'll probably buy one because I'm bored and it might be useful for work, but if I had bought an iPad 2 I wouldn't be sad. Especially if you don't want to pay for data charges.
I bought an iPad 2 for someone last year and they are perfectly happy with the device, including the screen
Yea, I gotcha. Just pokin' some fun
Especially if your work demands OSX, the MBP 13" is a great little machine to take around with you.Now cue the MBP rumors
Then the store comes back and it's available for pre-order? Would it be reasonable to try at say, 5:00 PM EST?
You missed it. The cameras are a gazillion times better. 5 Megapixel on the back, and 1080p HD recording. The front facing camera is 1MP i believe, they just said the same cameras as the iPhone 4S.
Agreed with the capacities, Apple was once a capacity leader and now they have fallen, at least the androids have expandable space. At least add that if they dont want to add space.
Started off good, then got boring. Maybe we overhyped this new iPad.
No quad core CPU
No 128GB option
No Siri
No haptic display
16GB still base
Thinking now is as good a time as ever to get an iPad 2.
No quad core CPU
No 128GB option
No Siri
No haptic display
16GB still base
Thinking now is as good a time as ever to get an iPad 2.
If you bought an iPad 2 for me last year, I would have been perfectly happy too.
Gee I wonder how many of these posts we're going to see today....of all these people who were going to buy the new iPad but because it doesn't have X they're going to buy some Android tablet instead.
I was talking about unofficially - the the previous iPad was unlocked thus someone would just need to stick a SIM in and check.
If it supports 3G over the AWS band it should work.
The point about iPhone relates to the fact that Apple said that because the screen to eye distance changes from 10" to 15" (iPhone to iPad) lower PPI density on iPad still qualifies for Retina moniker. I believe they stretched the truth here in both directions (10" is too short and 15" is too long)
Yes it will be there when the store comes back online, you'll have to keep checking tho.
No one can tell you when the store will be back up. Just keep checking back if you can manage to get it to load while the servers are getting pounded.
Considering this is a major upgrade I see many people moving from the iPad 2 to the new iPad.
Are we sure it's nt a quad core CPU? I thought the CPU and gpu were tied, so if it's quad core graphics it would have to be quad core CPU?
I've heard about 3-4 people now complain about no Quad Core... I'm pretty sure they said that it DID have it! :S
I don't know. I remember plenty of Steve keynotes where he spent ages demoing iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto and I stupidly watched through all of it just to see the one cool thing that would be at the end...