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About as silly as all those people holding ipads to take pictures too lol. That has to be the dumbest thing I have seen yet. People holding 10 inch camera so why not phones? But no if there is an ipad mini I would say no to a native phone app.

I disagree.

Taking photos with your ipad so the pictures are stored inside to be instantly inserted into a document or uploaded to some blog or photo-sharing site, or ready to be edited via iphoto/imovie without having to fiddle with photostream, email or sd cards? Well worth any perceived inconvenience of holding a larger tablet over a smaller phone.

Having done so extensively in and out of my classroom (e.g.: I want to take a snapshot of a pupil's work to show via skitch or educreations app), I can confidently tell you that the ability to take high-quality pictures with your ipad is a vastly underrated ability which is not receiving its proper due. :mad:

Anyways, regarding the original question, you would probably be able to simulate calls via facetime and imessage, just like with the current ipad. But unlikely it will have any true calling capabilities.
 
Well okay for the one off example you stated fine. But when I am at museum or at the zoo or some other tourist place and I see these moms and dads holding iPads in front if their heads snapping pics, yeah I say they look idiotic.

If much rather carry my tiny Cannon HS300 that takes pics which will blow away the iPad along with zoom and fits in my pocket.
 
Well okay for the one off example you stated fine. But when I am at museum or at the zoo or some other tourist place and I see these moms and dads holding iPads in front if their heads snapping pics, yeah I say they look idiotic.

If much rather carry my tiny Cannon HS300 that takes pics which will blow away the iPad along with zoom and fits in my pocket.

And then what are you going to do with those photos on your camera? You still need to manually transfer them to a PC, then over to your ipad via itunes. I believe the convenience factor of an all-in-one computer like an ipad has to be worth something.

Normal folks may not be that bothered that the quality of the camera or videos they are taking is inferior to a DSLR. And on the way home, they can slap together a simple yet impressive-looking photo slideshow. They just want a keepsake they can show to their friends and relatives from the convenience of an ipad.

Not to mention that an iphone's battery is not strong enough to actually last a day of usage like this (last I tried, filming for 45 minutes drained my 4s' batt by just over 50%). An ipad's battery has no issues with filming an entire day's worth of pictures and footage.

So yeah, you think it is stupid, I feel it can be a particularly astute move. :)
 
I disagree.

Taking photos with your ipad so the pictures are stored inside to be instantly inserted into a document or uploaded to some blog or photo-sharing site, or ready to be edited via iphoto/imovie without having to fiddle with photostream, email or sd cards? Well worth any perceived inconvenience of holding a larger tablet over a smaller phone.

Yeah... and then you're this person: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yg880/went_to_a_wedding_and_this_was_my_view_for_pretty/

http://i.imgur.com/ptQvo.jpg

Or...

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Or all these ******s: http://www.killmydaynow.com/2011/11/taking-pictures-with-an-ipad-makes-you-look-stupid-21-pics.html/
 
About as silly as all those people holding ipads to take pictures too lol. That has to be the dumbest thing I have seen yet. People holding 10 inch camera so why not phones? But no if there is an ipad mini I would say no to a native phone app.

I take pictures and videos of my grandkids with my iPad all the time. I have even used it at the beach to do it. They love seeing the pics and videos immediately. We have a lot of fun with it.

I got over feeling foolish about silly stuff a long time ago.

As to the OP's question, I suspect that mini will be nothing more than exactly what the name implies, a smaller iPad. But we don't know if Apple will even produce one.
 
Well okay for the one off example you stated fine. But when I am at museum or at the zoo or some other tourist place and I see these moms and dads holding iPads in front if their heads snapping pics, yeah I say they look idiotic.

If much rather carry my tiny Cannon HS300 that takes pics which will blow away the iPad along with zoom and fits in my pocket.

Good for you, but that sounds like a royal pain in the arse. I ditched point and shoot cameras a couple years ago and am much better off for it. Personally I'll whip out my iPad without a second thought if I want to take a pic or video. It's more odd to me that anyone would find it odd.
 
But not if you use a bt headset.

+1

I had Galaxy Note, I used BT headset/headphones for calls. And it was great as a surfing device.

Probably 7.85 is still too much, but I don't understand the hate about calling abilities on tablets. It's not that you HAVE TO put them next to your ears, you know, we are in 2012, bluetooth and so... I actually use voip with my ipad and a bt headset, nothing strange and silly about it, i don't hold it close to my ear.
 
There are a lot of android tablets with phone functionality. Not just VOIP via wifi or 3G, but a 3G GSM chip in there so you can make phone calls just like any other smartphone. These tablets are usually much more expensive, since they are phones too.

Almost all of samsung's tablets have an international 3G-GSM-phone version, but they are not officially sold in the US. I've been looking at the samsung tab 2 that is usually $250, but with the phone chip it sells for $400. Or that amazing 7.7 samsung galaxy tab. Adding a phone chip to the ipad mini would be AMAZING, and I'd love to let go of two devices and carry just one, but I doubt apple will do that.

If they were, an iPad mini with a phone chip would be going for $700. Though I'd pay for that in a heartbeat.
 
There is an app on ipad and android that lets youmake calls under wifi. It actually is terrific and i've made calls from the us to the uk. It'll work on the mini.
 
I had an Samsung P6800 7.7 which had a native dialer. Also Samsung made a bluetooth pen HM500 as handsfree. That was the best android tablet I had.
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As you can see the phone icon is there.
The only reason I switched to ipad mini was IOS and I really miss a dialer.
 
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Well okay for the one off example you stated fine. But when I am at museum or at the zoo or some other tourist place and I see these moms and dads holding iPads in front if their heads snapping pics, yeah I say they look idiotic.

I doubt they care what you think.
 
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