I know your point was that you wanted answers to your question, but couldn't you just look at the published tech specs for the cameras on apple.com and determine the megapixels from that?
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I know your point was that you wanted answers to your question, but couldn't you just look at the published tech specs for the cameras on apple.com and determine the megapixels from that?
Mides IDE, try the free version first. It's an iPhone app, not sure about the iPad.
But my question was not about the software, I'm aware of it. I was inquiring about the RAM, but thanks for asking...
"Don't look at whats in my left hand, look at what I have in my right hand!"
They said what quality has, is your fault that you don't what to bother research.
Is VGA quality, it's a standard. When they say records 720p do you ask how many megapixel is?
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I'm not picking on you, I just don't like people that looks only on the hardware and don't want to bother to understand the software.
Windows, Palm and Symbian were he first PDA/phones available, long before the mobile PDA phone market was a gleam in little Stevie's eyes. The PocketPC ruled the mobile OS marketshare for several years before Apple even got into the game.
Ok, sorry for my snap, but like I said, I'm a huge advocate of apple, and I totally respect their software, but in going from a 256 RAM(3G iPhone) to 512 RAM (iPhone 4), I've noticed vast improvements just on that alone, so that is something that is important to me. I guess I never noticed they didn't post those specs before, I thought they did it for the iPhone 4 but I cant find those on their website either....weird.
C'mon people !!!
--- and yet with the 100s of complaints I've read on this forum topic... Apple will STILL sell 20+ MILLION of them this year....
Everyone seems to want everything instantly on this product, and ALL Apple products actually
Let's realize, Technology is an evolution, and it's a business... I'm wondering if the people at Samsung or the Android people find this much BASHING on their forum sites about their products ... oh, wait... there probably aren't any sites like that.... jk, I'm sure there are...
iPad 3 will come out and there will be complaints about that... iPhone 5 will be released, and everyone will have somthing to say about... "why it doesn't have this?" or "why did they do it that way?"... and yet... TENS of MILLIONS of each will be sold....
And like practically ALL the other products that Apple has released...once people get their hands on them... they realize.... Damn, this thing ROCKS !!!
Call me a fanboy if you wish, but the sales numbers and the products speak for themselves... C'mon.... (in a whinny voice--- "oh, it only has 2 megapixals, and all the other tablets have 5 megapixals !!" I mean, really?? C'mon)
Someone wrote on here that Steve sounded arrogant ... yeah, maybe... but his company, his team and his products backup that kind of talk.
I'm done... Ordering my iPad2 on March 11th, and signing off this forum..
Later
--- and yet with the 100s of complaints I've read on this forum topic... Apple will STILL sell 20+ MILLION of them this year....
Everyone seems to want everything instantly on this product, and ALL Apple products actually
Let's realize, Technology is an evolution, and it's a business... I'm wondering if the people at Samsung or the Android people find this much BASHING on their forum sites about their products ... oh, wait... there probably aren't any sites like that.... jk, I'm sure there are...
iPad 3 will come out and there will be complaints about that... iPhone 5 will be released, and everyone will have somthing to say about... "why it doesn't have this?" or "why did they do it that way?"... and yet... TENS of MILLIONS of each will be sold....
And like practically ALL the other products that Apple has released...once people get their hands on them... they realize.... Damn, this thing ROCKS !!!
Call me a fanboy if you wish, but the sales numbers and the products speak for themselves... C'mon.... (in a whinny voice--- "oh, it only has 2 megapixals, and all the other tablets have 5 megapixals !!" I mean, really?? C'mon)
Someone wrote on here that Steve sounded arrogant ... yeah, maybe... but his company, his team and his products backup that kind of talk.
I'm done... Ordering my iPad2 on March 11th, and signing off this forum..
Later
Not really. Anyone can sell iPad 2 and use that cost to move into iPad 3 without losing that much of initial cost.
Winner? Sound like cheap to me.
You will lose like 40-50 dollars. Thats like 4 dollars a month. You cannot afford to pay 4-5 dollars a month?
Loser.
I do agree with you that RAM made a significant improvement on performance in some area of the software. What Apple aims on - in my opinion - is that instead check specs, people go to the Apple Store and play with their devices, and judge whether to buy it or not based on the experience they got first hand. I still don't see any company - AFAIK - that let you do that. Is the same when you go for a spin at the car dealer.
Manufacturer still playing the tech specs instead of giving you an experience and still don't get that they are doing it wrong.
My 2p.
How is it confusing.. There is not even any interface, you just use programs.
Everything before the first iPhone was obliterated in the mobile OS market because it was so bad. For all intents and purposes it never existed in terms of innovation, perhaps except as a cautionary tale.
It was so funny when the handful of nerds who held their little palm and windows mobile devices tight and threw up spec sheets and everything else to try and fight Apple when the iPhone onslaught was coming.. They just never get it, and a lot of them still don't get it. As we can see by the tablet threads where people talk about the same nonsense spec sheets....
Everything about those devices was bad. I was one of the first people to own a palm PDA. A palm phone was the suck? All those smartphones were absolutely horrible. I had too much self-esteem to ever buy or use one of those pieces of garbage.
There was no innovation there.. it was just a hodge podge mess of kludgy garbage.
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Even if that were the case, the iphone revolutionized it all and for that matter Apple had the first ipad with the Newton.
Just was too much ahead of it's time.
Don't even know what the trolls want.
My car is shinier than yours or I can piss higher or what?
Buy Apple or by stinkpads and honeycombs or whatever.
Lump them all together and proclaim they beat the ipad sales. Who cares!
Be happy and prosper.
The constant nagging by halfwits who don't think things through and haven't created a thing in their life is really ridiculous.
Many don't even know a thing about how resourcing, supply chains and development works.
Add to that not being in Apple's meetings to know what is going on and their clueless nature shines
Im with you. When the first iPad was released this forum was full of complaints for the lack of cameras. Now we get the cameras not good enough or what do I need a camera for?. The real issue is Apple is not making this tablet for techies. They dont need to. Its a mass market device. If it had 1GB of RAM and Retina display etc. it would be 1000USD for the base model and they wouldnt sell that to anyone. iPad Gen 1 was cheap enough and good enough to get them into the market. No they have 10milloin plus user base and a foothold on suppliers they can build upon it. None the less for life of me I cant understand this forum. Im not sure why a lot of people post here. I have a Gen 1 iPad and its the most useful device Ive ever used. All I do at home is web surf, read mail, and play with a few low key apps. I have no need to have Autodesk Pro on my tablet to render 3D drawings at 5000 frame rate per second. Microsoft and co. tried for years to shoehorn an entire OS and power into a tablet and failed but now were screaming out for it? Strange.
But of course Apple is helping these users realize they don't need it. Many once thought they needed a 3.5" floppy too.
Just like how an iphone 4 os could be completely changed by visiting a certain web site.
This was a more impressive update than I was expecting. Very nice.
I can't help but think about the new Apple iPad Cover and how there are companies that do nothing but cases and sleeves etc. and yet none of them ever managed to come up with anything truly unique. Apple, on the the other hand, is primarily focused on the actual devices but still manages to outsmart the dedicated case/sleeve makers who exist solely to make cases. Very Apple-like.
Just an insanely talented group of people over there. They could probably take some time off to laze around on the beach and come back in a couple years and still find the competition struggling to catch up.
that cover is ugly and lame and does not protect anything its more of a fashion statement
ipad 2 really looks like a big ipod now.. i pad 1 is much better looking looks more like a mac computer
apologies if this has already been answered...
does anyone know if the new lead /adapter would also work from a MacBook > display?
the current mini DV only carries video and no audio.
as for the iPad, I'd still have one if it was given to me, but probably wouldn't buy one yet.
the airplay thing is good, but didn't realise until I tried to stream something from the iPlayer that it only works with YouTube and a few other things.
not sure if this is deliberate on Apple's part, or if developers just need to add support for it?
maybe by nex year they'll do a 16:9 model - much as I love the apple products I do have, I don't see how they can talk about the iPad being so great for watching movies when the screen is the wrong shape!
and make the mirroring thing wireless - it's all very well using the iPad connected to a large screen fir presentations and the like, but going back to a wired connection when we've become so used to wireless seems a bit of a backward step.
does anyone know if the new lead /adapter would also work from a MacBook > display?
the current mini DV only carries video and no audio.
as for the iPad, I'd still have one if it was given to me, but probably wouldn't buy one yet.
the airplay thing is good, but didn't realise until I tried to stream something from the iPlayer that it only works with YouTube and a few other things.
not sure if this is deliberate on Apple's part, or if developers just need to add support for it?
maybe by nex year they'll do a 16:9 model - much as I love the apple products I do have, I don't see how they can talk about the iPad being so great for watching movies when the screen is the wrong shape!
and make the mirroring thing wireless - it's all very well using the iPad connected to a large screen fir presentations and the like, but going back to a wired connection when we've become so used to wireless seems a bit of a backward step.
There is no actual camera app on the iPad, the only way you can use it is with Facetime, or If you buy iMovie, you can record 720p quality video and work on it straight away. But because of the crap quality Apple has not included a still camera on the device.