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iPad 3G Disassembly, 3G Video Streaming and GPS Improvements
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You forgot to add (hint, hint...)
I'm glad they found use for iChat. I personally turned on my webcam on my iMac a couple of times after initial purchase. Poked around PhotoBooth software and that was it. Then I had a friend show me the iChat and showed on her iMac in her room, talking and viewing with her daughter on iChat on her MacBook in the living room two rooms down. Nice! However, I didn't take that newfound knowledge and put it to any use and I doubt if I asked them when the last time mother and daughter "iChatted" using the web cam on their computers, I doubt I'd get a "Just the other day." answer.
But for some, if it works great for them. More power to them.
Now iChat on the iPhone... maybe... if I have to see something for myself, but to just see who I'm talking to... Don't think so.
So I won't miss the lack camera in the current iPad and websites that have Flash... Apple appears to be on a movement to change that as well. Whether they have success in two years or ten years is the question. But Apple did away with the floppy and the world didn't end. Apple did away with some proprietary ports and the world didn't end. Apple doesn't have certain things in certain products of theirs and the world still has not ended.
It is what Apple sells and if you want the good, you have to take the bad or in this case the lacking and enjoy and use as much as you can.
Cool! Makes me look forward to the iPhone (Glass Backplate) or whatever catchy name the 4th-gen will have
If you tend to carry your phone in your back pocket I suspect many people will be calling it broken a$$ plate.
You forgot to add (hint, hint...)
I'm glad they found use for iChat. I personally turned on my webcam on my iMac a couple of times after initial purchase.
I think most people are like that ... the only iChat feature I really use on a regular basis is screen sharing ... god bless screen sharing.
People complaining about lack of a camera on the iPad are just looking for something to cry about. The camera would give the most unflattering view ever, a nose hair camera. And this isn't to say that it shouldn't be added, but that it's not missing in the debut device that is the first of it's kind is really nothing to complain about. When others are getting their tablets out, Apple will be adding a camera to theirs.
As for Flash, the web will be better off when it lives and dies in the browser. No more awful pop ups, no more malware spreading on Windows. It's the best thing possible for security going forward.
Hard to say. GPS is by far the most precise. It's only when you drive through a tunnel, or high houses on both sides, it will lose sight of the satellites. I can't say how quickly 3G would step in. And I think driving through London relying on cell tower triangulation won't work very well either. On the other hand, say you are in a train station or airport with walls all around you, GPS just won't work at all and your 3G will know where you are.
On the other hand, the cheaper TomToms are awfully slow. Always lagging half a second behind, because the processor is too slow. Makes a lot of a difference if you take several turns in a row in an area you don't know with heavy traffic and TomTom shows you precisely where you were a second ago.
as for me i would use the camera like once and then never use it again its nice to have but there are many more things i want much more ( but i dont feel like typing ALL that) i dont think apple withheld all the features we want because they wanted there product to suffer. they know people will still buy it and they like to "milk the cash cow" so they will release these things gradually. im getting my ipad maybe today lets just hope they have them left
Geez 2.0
And don't forget to keep posting those comments about the frack'n boxes.
Please, please, please keep your eyes closed and don't look. It might help if you keep your fingers in your ears, too, so you don't hear anything about it too !
And it would keep you from typing such useless posts.
And don't forget to keep posting those comments about the frack'n boxes.
DELLsFan said:
They haven't yet released an iPad version, so for now it's their existing iPhone app and you gotta hit 2x to go full screen, so things get grainy as expected. But it does work great, so when/if Navigon debuts an iPad specific app, it'll be an awesome road trip tool.
It's okay. iFixit is an Apple repairs/upgrade type site. They are famous for their tear-downs. Unlike Gizmodo they actually have the skills to put it back together!
Google Nav is by far the best Nav app out on the market. Plus it's free. Apple would be smart to bring it to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad...oops that probably would not happen.
Also Google My Track is one of the most impressive trip computer apps on the market. That would probably not make it either. Too bad.
Also Google My Track is one of the most impressive trip computer apps on the market. That would probably not make it either. Too bad.
I sent an email to Navigon customer service about a week ago to ask about an iPad version. They said it's "coming soon" and to watch the app store.
I cuted active O2 sim card and it is NOT working in iPad 3G. iPad responded: No sim card instaled....
Are you saying you cut a full-size sim card and shoved it in the micro sim slot? If so, lol.
That's a bit rude! Speaking as a guy who used to fix computers, printers and the like, that dismantle looks problematic --- it would be so east to shatter that glass screen.... Then who would care about your tears?
It's not my iPad so there would be no tears.The people who took it apart knew and accepted the risk of breaking it.
It's not the frickin' Mona Lisa,its a product that will be made in the millions.
Quit whining.
I'm stoked about the gps improvements. I'm really hoping it makes it to the iPhone. I use gps a lot, and improved gps is something I've wanted since I first got the iPhone.
Yeeessss.SJ did say it was magical,but it can't magically download maps without 3G or Wifi.Did you really think otherwise?
However,purchase a nav app and the maps will be stored on the device.No data connection needed.