Let alone the awkwardness of getting the iPad into your jeans pocket.![]()
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Let alone the awkwardness of getting the iPad into your jeans pocket.![]()
All Skype needs to monitor for incoming calls is push notification. I thought they already had that? If not, Im sure theyll add it. I get notification of incoming AIMs even when AIM is not running and my iPhone is asleep. Push works great.
I see the industry is getting ready to build around the iPad and it's only been what, a few days after the reveal?
Very telling.
Push works great for IMs, but won't cut it for VoIP calls. It takes too long for push notification to come through, get acknowledged, auto-launch client, establish connection, accept a call. Most of your calls will end up going to voicemail.
Need proper multi-tasking support for VoIP to be useful.
Now I suppose we will see a lot more man purses if men are going to start carrying this around as a phone. I can see it now...
"Just give me a second while I grab my Pad out of my murse!"![]()
I can imagine the awkwardness of trying to pull the iPad out of your jeans pocket in time to catch the call.
I briefly wondered if AT&T insisted that they not have a camera, because all the extra data used up by video chat over 3G networks by the 4 million or more projected iPad owners would make AT&T's network suck even more.
But that can't be it, because AT&T's network could not possibly suck more.![]()
syklee26 said:3G VoIP on iPad is sorta pointless assuming user has a WiFi at home. I highly doubt anybody who uses iPad will not have WiFi at home.
The real winner is iPhone users. with 3G and Push Notification coming, I will have 5400 rollover minutes by next year. (450 x 12 months)
This probably kills any hope for 3G on iTouch, however. Can you imagine having a similar plan for AT&T and 3G built into Touch? If 3G is built in, it basically turns it into a phone. That will kill iPhone sales.
Belt clip.
Are we going back to this now?:
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Multitasking is needed to do manythings well and VoIP is one of them.
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But Skype is more about the voice calls than the text chatting. Also remember it's also impossible to use a desktop keyboard to interact with two applications at the same time, you need simply switch to whatever application you need to interact with, the same could be done with iPhone OS is what many are asking for. I'm also fairly confident you could have two open apps on screen at one time if made possible or the very least a smaller pop up window and one app.
Firstly I'm not criticising anything. Everything I typed is fact, secondly why does skype even exist and have millions of users if mobile phones could be used instead?
Why?
Sounds like people are complaining about the way in which apple are controlling drain on the processor rather than a lack of 'multitasking', which this device and the iPhone clearly have.
Why are people trying to turn the iPad into a phone? Apple already produce one of those.
It's almost laughable that people are having such a hard time accepting a new product category. This is a lightweight pad for information consumption while sat on your couch listening to music, it's not a computer replacement, a phone or a 'netbook'.