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Cosmetic Differences in iPad 3G vs iPad Wi-Fi

Journojulz said:
I am beginning to wonder if apple may just squeeze in a camera by the time it comes out?

That is the only thing holding me back right now.
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Others have mentioned it and not sure if you have come across it or not. However the problem with a camera on the iPad is the placement. Let say :apple: puts it opposite of the Home button, then the marketing of holding a device in any position as a consumer pleases falls apart. Now what happens when you hold it in landscape orientation, the camera would not frame the user in an optimal position (against :apple: methodology).

If I were to take a gamble, :apple: has and is trying to refine a camera positioned in the center of the screen. Most likely the camera will be relocated from all :apple: products and placed in the center of the screen, behind the lcd. The iPad will benefit from this positioning quite well. This will also decrease the frame around the screen.
 
Lamonster said:
Are you sure? Seems they would have said that in the features specs.
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It says in the tech specs that the 3G has GPS and the Wifi only does not.
!¡ V ¡! said:
It is hard not to see that the iPad resembles the screen of the MBP, if there was a switch to go from x86 to ARM and OS X to iPhone OS X would be interesting, however Dashboard does this well enough. iPhone OS X is an extension of Dashboard.app, nothing more.
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I read this far into your post and stopped. This is such a ridiculous statement that you have lost any and all credibility. OSX mobile has NOTHING to do with Dashboard.

Dashboard is an extension of Safari, in that it executes and renders web-like content (HTML, CSS, JS).

OSX mobile is a variant of the same FreeBSD kernel that OSX runs, with a new UI/"windows" manager, and entirely new and different set of system level APIs.

They are completely and totally unrelated, other than that the iPad should really get a version of Dashboard, with OSX widget compatibility, and a small iPad IDE to create, package, and install widgets on the iPad.
 
NT1440 said:
Agreed, but I think they are worried about it being perceived as being simply a competitor to ebook readers.
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As if calling the downloadable books iBooks isn't confusing enough for those that still own and use an actual iBook laptop.

"Did you read that?"

"Why yes, I read it on my iBook!"

"The story was written in an iBook?"

"No, not an e-book iBook, my laptop iBook!"
 
ipad

I like the first attempt but I'll pass on rev1 of the iPad. However, if rev2 or 3 has these features I'll buy one

1. a SD/micro SD slot built in so I can conveniently expand the memory (w/o an adapter sticking out)

2. edge to edge screen (I really don't like the black border and the new LCD TVs are doing away with borders while being super thin so this should be easy)

3. 16x9 format or at least a little closer to that ratio.
 
mrgreen4242 said:
They are completely and totally unrelated, other than that the iPad should really get a version of Dashboard, with OSX widget compatibility, and a small iPad IDE to create, package, and install widgets on the iPad.
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I agree. If the iPad had Dashboard compatibility, that would an easy sell. I swear by my Dashboard in OSX. I can just imagine how fluid it would be to have it on a touch device. It seems like a no-brainer to me.
 
mavfan11 said:
1. a SD/micro SD slot built in so I can conveniently expand the memory (w/o an adapter sticking out)
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I really want to see the iFixit teardown of the iPad to see if I can understand why they would not just have used a full size SIM and a full size SD slot like on the current MBP. It would have been so nice to be able to use my iPhone's SIM and to expand the 16 GB version with a 32GB SDHC card. Sigh.

Maybe we'll be lucky and it'll turn out like the Nook where there is a normal micro-SD card inside. :p

B
 
tetravus said:
Not necessarily true. I want one but I'm not gonna rush in and get one immediately. This is Apple, and if history is to be trusted; early adopters will be severely punished by a second gen product with better features and a lower price.
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That is technology, get used to it. Having a better second generation product whilst having a lower cost or maintaining the same cost is not news at all. Ever buy a computer in the past ten years?
 
mrgreen4242 said:
Dashboard is an extension of Safari, in that it executes and renders web-like content (HTML, CSS, JS).

OSX mobile is a variant of the same FreeBSD kernel that OSX runs, with a new UI/"windows" manager, and entirely new and different set of system level APIs.
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When did I mention in my post that iPhone OS X was the direct workings of Dashboard.app. What I did state that it resembled and is a spin-off from Dashboard.app. I know the difference between Webkit and FreeBSD. Do you honestly believe that a device can run off only Webkit.

:apple: basically taken the "idea and concept" of Dashboard.app and incorporate it into the GUI of iPhone OS X. That has nothing to do with FreeBSD or Webkit.

Have you noticed how the app in iPhone OS X resemble the widgets from Dashboard and that fact that you can create weblink apps for iPhone OS X. That dock at the bottom, look again it resemble the same Dashboard dock and the iPad one resemble OS X dock. If you do not see that Dashboards GUI is spread across iPhone OS X, then you must be living on another planet.
 
iLunar said:
I agree. If the iPad had Dashboard compatibility, that would an easy sell. I swear by my Dashboard in OSX. I can just imagine how fluid it would be to have it on a touch device. It seems like a no-brainer to me.
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Seems it would also solve multi-tasking or a background process, similar to push notification. Presently Dashboar.app takes about 5-10% of cps resources and 0 when inactive on my system. Not sure how it will fair on iPhone OS X.
 
Lamonster said:
Not to argue with you but it doesn't say the Wifi does not have GPS, it just says the 3G has "Assisted GPS". I'm still thinking the wifi model has GPS but I could be wrong.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
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Actually I do not know why this is confusing at all, the WiFi iPad shares common to the iPod Touch and the WiFi + 3G iPad shares common to the iPhone (it even has the mic and speaker :eek:) Chances are that the a-GPS will be only on the WiFi + 3G model.


At least now we know why there was no 16GB iPod Touch model, all the 16GB NAND was saved and being put into the iPad. :p:D
 
inflynx said:
This one just looks bloody ugly
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Yeah it does break the aesthetics quite a bit...

If I had my way and if it were workable, I'd make the centered Apple logo "plastic", increase the size of the Apple logo and internally design it so the 3G radio is effective with that design and then get rid of that black strip at top and have it so the back of the pad is all aluminum and the smoke black plastic Apple logo shield over the 3G radio set bigger in the center...

That might look a little better maybe...
 
!¡ V ¡! said:
When did I mention in my post that iPhone OS X was the direct workings of Dashboard.app. What I did state that it resembled and is a spin-off from Dashboard.app. I know the difference between Webkit and FreeBSD. Do you honestly believe that a device can run off only Webkit.

:apple: basically taken the "idea and concept" of Dashboard.app and incorporate it into the GUI of iPhone OS X. That has nothing to do with FreeBSD or Webkit.

Have you noticed how the app in iPhone OS X resemble the widgets from Dashboard and that fact that you can create weblink apps for iPhone OS X. That dock at the bottom, look again it resemble the same Dashboard dock and the iPad one resemble OS X dock. If you do not see that Dashboards GUI is spread across iPhone OS X, then you must be living on another planet.
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"iPhone OS X is an extension of Dashboard.app, nothing more." Is exactly what you said. Other than a common UI theme they have nothing to do with one another, at all. Claiming that makes OSX mobile an extension of Dashboard.app is like saying that a telephone is nothing more than an extension of a calculator because they both have number buttons.

Even then, the similarity stops at overall UI style. The functionality of iPhone apps and widgets aren't even comparable - Dashboard excels at showing you a bunch of widgets all at once, presenting large amounts of information in a glance. The iPhone is the exact opposite.

Also, I clearly do not think a device could run solely on webkit. You implied that it did, and I was correcting that notion.
 
An idea...

I don't know if anyone else has said this, but one thing that makes me think there are some features left to see with the iPad is the lack of certain apps: clock, stocks, weather, messaging, calculator. These are exactly the apps that really should be active widgets rather than static icons. Their absence suggests to me that active widgets are in the works.
 
3g version looks weird from the front.

I will say that I think the black plastic strip looks fine from the back. Where it looks kind of weird is when it is viewed from the front. It interrupts the thin aluminum bezel on the top. I don't know that it is a deal breaker, but it seems a bit sloppy. (especially for photo frame mode.) Like most apple products it will probably not be as noticeable in person.

~Ian
 
Lamonster said:
Not to argue with you but it doesn't say the Wifi does not have GPS, it just says the 3G has "Assisted GPS". I'm still thinking the wifi model has GPS but I could be wrong.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
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Actually I believe that they have specifically saiod that the WiFi model does not have GPS though I dont have a link to that information.

Anyhow, the ability to write directly on to PDF documents will make this my computer of choice. I can bring it to board meetings and take notes on my meeting packet. Then I can save them directly to a file. Better than my currently strategy of taking notes and promptly losing them. Its just too bad that they left the technology to third party providers. The native PDF reader should have a note taking function!
 
RRX209 said:
I was on the fence trying to justify why I would even want one but I when I saw the conceptual video about Sports Illustrated magazine, I can totally see owning one now. This youtube video just scratches the surface of possibilties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntyXvLnxyXk
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Seriously. Take 3 minutes and watch this video and tell me that you or your family will have no use for an iPad. I was somewhat skeptical with all the 'revolutionary' hyperbole from Apple, but wow!! All for $500.00. It's a no-brainer. And yes, I realize that the vid is not an actual iPad, but you'll get the idea ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntyXvLnxyXk
 
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