I think it's the pop up when you get a text, e-mail, alert from an app etc if we're talking about the same thing.
A lot of people dislike this in ios and it's been done better in other decives.
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I think it's the pop up when you get a text, e-mail, alert from an app etc if we're talking about the same thing.
A lot of people dislike this in ios and it's been done better in other decives.
I'm confused...the iPad doesn't receive texts and doesn't do pop ups for new emails that I've ever seen.
I don't need any of these damn reviews to tell me what I already have known for years.
Apple's best are always 2nd generation products
They are the little blue boxes with white text that appear when something happens that the iPad OS thinks you should know about.
Many notifications are triggered by Apps themselves: You can set alarms to remind you to do errands. Or news Apps can alert you to breaking events. But there are also "system" notifications, such as letting you know you've lost network connectivity, or that your battery is below 5% power level.
In all fairness, the user has a fair amount of control over the notification system. You can turn them completely off for most Apps.
I don't get why apple would wimp out on the camera like that. An obvious luxury item like the iPad 2 should have a decent camera if they're bothering to put one in at all. I hope they take a lot of heat for this. You really wonder about what marketing round-table meeting came up with this decision.
Or is it the result of making the unit so damn thin they couldn't fit a decent camera in?
I think both. My guess is they would've had hardtime fitting in the iPhone 4's pretty decent camera into the iPad 2 shell. But there are other cameras that are somewhere between the size of the current iPad 2 camera and the iPhone 4's.
The other part is, of course, greed. Yeah it doesn't cost Apple that much more but Apple just loves that smell of money and they get double bonus since they are already using very similar, if not identical units for the iPod Touch. It probably saved them the cost of R&D and per-unit variable cost.
Basically:
Product Planner A: So if we put crappy cameras and save $10 per unit (hypothetical amount), will we lost many customers with this thing?
Product Planner B: Nah, not really. 99.99% of them will still buy the thing.
Product Planner A: So let's calculate the total amount of money we'd make with better camera and without the better camera... yes, we make more money without the better camera. Let's put the crappy ones in! Woo-hoo, mo-nay!
How come I havent heard anyone talk about iMovie and Garageband crashing on the engadget review!?
I seem to remember some people in this thread stating that apple doesnt release buggy software??
Hmmmm
Indeed no excuse for Apple on that one. The problem with iOS iMovie is that it has always been crashy. But iOS itself rarely crashes and most apps are stable unlike...a certain other tablet.
Indeed no excuse for Apple on that one. The problem with iOS iMovie is that it has always been crashy. But iOS itself rarely crashes and most apps are stable unlike...a certain other tablet.
Honeycomb never crashes either... its not like it get a BSOD! lol
Some GOOGLE made apps do crash... like the browser on occasion and for me the market has crashed twice since i have had it.
iMovie and Garageband could be crashing to do iOS 4.3 or due to it being made poorly... either way... apple is capable of releasing buggy software... these are 2 examples in a long list.
Great question! I've been giving this some thought since the iPad 2 announcement and feel that all iPad iterations are going to be incremental from a hardware standpoint. The iPad is never going to be a laptop/desktop replacement because Apple will not cannabilize those businesses. What we'll continue to see is spec bumps on the display, processor/GPU, RAM, storage capacity, etc. I think the real innovation is going to occur on the app level. Future announcements will be similar to the iPad 2 announcement. Apple will unveil the upgraded iPad and then show some innovative apps to go with it (like iMovie and Garageband). As you can see from the iPad 2 keynote, the product is moving away from being solely a content consumption device. Apple's vision for the iPad is clear and they want it to be a creation device, as well.
Its probably possible to crash any Application thats more complicated than a simple calculator if you try hard enough.
And no doubt, since they were reviewing both new hardware and software, the Engadget guys probably gave the apps some pretty duanting tasts: sideloading video clips and sound files, or multiple quick edits, sound or video effects, etc.
Obviously the ideal would be software that NEVER crashed. But in order to get to that point, you'd be in a perpetual Beta state - since you can ALWAYS improve software. And even the most rigorous testing and debugging prcedure are likely to overlook some set of circumstances a user may subject the App to. The mark of a good vendor is being able to ship - on time - software that only crashes under rare conditions. And then uses the update schedule and bug reports to weed out the problems.
Apparently the Engadget reviewers didn't think that the crashing problem was a serious downside. And given the choice between having a couple of $5 Apps that let an iPad owner create beautiful movies and music; and the equivalent Android Market offerings (ie. Nada) - then I think most people would go with the iPad.
I would too also have liked to see more sites compared and also how the iPad running 4.3 fared instead of 4.2.1. But tomorrow when more people get their hands on it I am sure we shall see tons of reviews pouring in.
someone asked about showing the more power of the ipad2.
theres a video of some video decoding and playing at
http://www.slashgear.com/ipad-2-review-09139014/
in the middle of the page
seems to be 720p avi playing without dropped framed and with synced audio
theres a video of some video decoding and playing at
http://www.slashgear.com/ipad-2-review-09139014/
in the middle of the page
seems to be 720p avi playing without dropped framed and with synced audio
Thank you VERY much for saying that! I have seen so many posts both here and other iPad boards where they say the Xoom is $300 more. Uh...no it's not for comparable specs![/QUOTE]
The only "comparable spec" is 16GB More of internal memory and a 3G radio. Not everyone needs dedicated 3G for their tablet which is why there's personal hotspot (and a bunch of other non-traditional [read jailbreak] tethering options.)
Don't even mention the "4G" radio. If you're lucky enough to live in the radius where you have it you can download all 100 xoom apps that much faster. Have fun being bored and out $300 more dollars.
Full disclosure though I'm getting 64gb 3g iPad 2 for $829. I have the money and I STILL wouldn't buy the Xoom.
someone asked about showing the more power of the ipad2.
theres a video of some video decoding and playing at
http://www.slashgear.com/ipad-2-review-09139014/
in the middle of the page
seems to be 720p avi playing without dropped framed and with synced audio
The movie playing on the ipad2 has audio out of sync - dude, the video is smooth, but the audio is way out of sync.
How would they know? We won't know until iFixit does a complete tear down of the iPad2.
two things that have me bummed about the ipad 2, the lack of a retina display (once you see it, there's no going back) and the lack of decent cams. that's it.
I don't even care if the cams are .1 megapixel I just wanted autofocus so I could scan barcodes and take pictures of concert tickets and stuff better than my iphone 3g. sad face me. I'll still be getting one though, I just hope I can sell it off a few months before ipad 3 comes out with hopefully those two features.
I don't even care if the cams are .1 megapixel I just wanted autofocus so I could scan barcodes and take pictures of concert tickets and stuff better than my iphone 3g. sad face me. I'll still be getting one though, I just hope I can sell it off a few months before ipad 3 comes out with hopefully those two features.
Exactly. And most people say "well I doubt your going to be whipping your iPad out of your back pocket to take general photos" which is true but then why put one at all if it were for that statement. Like you said, it's a higher class luxury item and it should have a much better camera regardless.
The camera is there mainly for Facetime. Hence why they went with the camera designed mainly for video use. You couldn't fit the iphone4's camera in there.
What makes this relatively cheap consumer device a luxury item again?
I didn't ask why they didn't, I stated my opinion on what they should have done.
What makes this relatively cheap consumer device a luxury item again?
It seems cheap to use because we are used to buying such high dollar items but to the mainstream public (non-Apple fanboys) $500+ is a LOT of money.
So they should have gone with a thicker device then right?
Plain and simple the technology for a great still camera for a portable device this thin doesn't exist yet. At best it's probably in the R&D pipeline for some component makers.
but not document scanning?
not barcode scanning?
not VR apps?
we'll only be using them primarily for video chat (which could look better) because that's all they're good for at those specs.