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Apple Tablet Media Event Today: 'Come See Our Latest Creation'

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iPad is lame. It is just a huge iphone. If anything I'd like my iphone to be smaller and lighter =)
 
From the Engadget feed, this seems like a fairly tame event for such a big release. Do you suppose he is waiting to announce the "big stuff" about it?
 
We are 25min into the event. So now video, than some games (maybe 10mins), than stuff about pricing, mobile carriers etc. again 10 mins.

So 15 mins left for one more thing. I hope...
 
Beautiful interface...

10:21AM This is the ultimate tease. We've got a sneaking suspicion there's a lot more to come. - I couldn't agree more. :)
 
So it's basically like a lot of the more sensible people have already stated - a big freaking iphone. Underwhelmed doesn't even come into it. This is a bad news day for Apple.
 
dba7dba said:
I guess you missed the picture of the full virtual keyboard on the screen of the tablet?

GO here to see pics.
http://live.gizmodo.com/
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here have been multiple commentaries recently by all the tech blogs on why a virtual keyboard of this size doesn't work in first hand experiences. Simply put, the thing is too large to hit all of the keys with your thumbs unless you're wedging the thing somewhere and pecking at it.
 
Winni said:
A giant iPhone. I cannot state how underwhelmed I am.

But it shows where the journey goes with Apple: Locked-down iPhone OS devices who won't be fueled by imagination (thank you, Simpsons) but only by dollars washing through the iTunes Store.

Thank you for the wake-up call, Steve. I will put my money in something else in the future.
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Seriously. And Apple fanatics have the nerve to say RIM uses the same design over and over again. iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch now the iPad all use the same design and OS (which is starting to look outdated). Underwhelming is the term I would use.
 
A quote taken from the engadget live blogging -
"You can browse the web with it. It's the best web experience you've ever had." (might be paraphrased but you get the idea)

well that it might be until you come to a site that uses flash :rolleyes:

Now I'm no fan of flash but you can't go saying its the best web experience if it doesn't support the whole web experience - warts and all.

At this present moment I'm not overly impressed by it, it better not be any more than a decent netbook (£400) as it offers less features in my opinion. Hell I'm currently prefering the HP slate with win7 on it as I can run what I want on it etc. This might change when I see it in the flesh etc but first impressions count.
 
I see it as a pretty bad fail. It power is effectively just a large screen iPhone and quite frankly that is not very much. I do not see it doing any damage to the tablet PC market as the OS running it is pretty clearly the iPhones OS so what it will be able to do is limited as such.
 
motoracer1486 said:
I don't get it...it's a bigger iTouch...I'd rather keep my pocketable iTouch thank you.
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Totally. May be there is one more thing to come - but so far it is a blown up iPod Touch. Nothing interesting at all - even counting the ebooks.

Wow - there is not even a OLED screen (and no video camera - or did I miss that one?) So it looks like even on the ebook or video conferencing front it is not attractive at all. This is a massive fail.
 
This is turning out to be an awesome device, interface-wise it's incredible BUT ... it needs something more. And it can't be expensive! (Fat chance it won't be ;))
 
I know every person who is complaining right now will own one of these in a year or two.
 
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