apple ipad...who is getting one?

[Guest]

Well, the Website say's that it is Pre-orders starting from tomorrow, does this mean that the UK pricing is released tomorrow also?

 

Might be making my preorder tomorrow it would seem then!

Prices are out mate.

 

The Apple iPad UK prices are as follows:

Wi-Fi only:

- £429 for 16GB,

- £499, for 32GB,

- £599 for 64GB

Wi-Fi plus 3G models:

- £529 for 16GB

- £599 for 32GB

- £699 for 64GB

 

Remember US is EX VAT, UK is iincl Vat so uk about 30quid more expensive.

[Cyprino]

Well, I've got a 32gb iPod touch on the way, sod another £200 for that. If it was in the mid £300's I might have considered it.

[kiter_ryan]

£429 for the basic!!!! Cheaper than I expected

[zimmer]

You can take your ipad and stick it right up yer jacksie

[spiky_dave]

You can take your ipad and stick it right up yer jacksie

 

No doubt 'there's an app for that'

[garc]

i...i...i...can't be arsed with this i..dea any more...

[The Geoff]

Hang on a minute, i-'ve had an i-dea......what if we i-gnore all of this i-bollocks?

 

Seroiusly....i-'m with you on this garc....i-'ve have enough of sticking "i" or "my" in front of the latest vention.

[zimmer]

No doubt 'there's an app for that'

 

Ha ha, very good :-)

[cwatson]

the thing is , we must expect them to be as good seeing as they are priced more then modern laptops. the 64gb ipad is gonna be near £800 according to online estimates, wtf are they thinking

 

I think Kiter Ryan summed this up lol "If its shiny and made by apple I'll buy it!"

 

for the record I'm not a mac hater I have a macbook pro, use logic 9, aperture have an ipod and an iphone lol! but my £220 netbook shits all over the £800 ipad and is still quite pretty!!

[Spike J]

Got mine, can't put the thing down!

[crut]

Got mine, can't put the thing down!

 

Nice, I've got 2-3 days to wait. All I know is that it has been dispatched from Apple, I've been invoiced and the money has been taken.

 

Just need the iPad now!

 

Which model did you get?

[marman]

I have highly warmed to the idea of a tablet, I use my phone so much for browsing over the netbook as its all so seemless and easy.

 

Will be waiting for a non Apple version however for now

[Bigbud]

I have highly warmed to the idea of a tablet, I use my phone so much for browsing over the netbook as its all so seemless and easy.

 

Will be waiting for a non Apple version however for now

 

Dell Streak ‘mini iPad’ tablet launches on O2 - Telegraph

 

Looks interesting

[marman]

Dell Streak ‘mini iPad’ tablet launches on O2 - Telegraph

 

Looks interesting

 

I want 8-10" screen I think, and at least android 2.1 Been keeping an eye on the mini5/streak for a couple of months. I also believe a bigger version will be available

[crut]

I want 8-10" screen I think, and at least android 2.1 Been keeping an eye on the mini5/streak for a couple of months. I also believe a bigger version will be available

 

I think the HP slate will be interesting with WebOS.

 

I'd quite like to have a play with an Android tablet with an up to date OS.

 

Certainly I think it'd be fun to hack some applications together for Android.

[stranger]

I am getting one

 

I am replacing my macbook pro with a 64Gb version....

 

For me the its use will be part of my job. I dont want to carry a great big laptop around any more. I do alot of remote work with OS X, Windows, Red Hat etc servers and my primary use for the laptop is management. When I bought the iPhone I never realised how much I would start to use it for when I am away and need to very quickly remote in and fix a problem. But the small size proves to be a hassle when typing long terminal commands but the advantage of only carrying a phone with me out weigh this hassle. The fact that i can do all this with a great size screen and all day battery is well worth the lack of other features that are less important to me...

 

for me the main appeal apple has with the iphone/touch/pad is the app store.... without the app store i could not use it for half the things that I do.... I only see this getting bigger as the advantages of ipad become more apparent.

[crut]

Nice, I've got 2-3 days to wait. All I know is that it has been dispatched from Apple, I've been invoiced and the money has been taken.

 

Just need the iPad now!

 

Which model did you get?

 

My 64Gb 3G arrived:

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341/4644863573_0fd6f80ed9_o.jpg

 

[kiter_ryan]

awesome awesome awesome, I just need to wait for next pay day!

[crut]

Posted this to my blog:

 

Am I pleased I got one: absolutely.

 

Initial thoughts: When using my iPhone I'm constantly darting to the Twitter or RSS app to see what has changed, normally I will push links to Instapaper for later consumption. With the iPad, I have no such urge. I very much have enjoyed browsing sites, reading RSS and catching up on Instapaper. The iPhone is for quick bursts of consumption, the iPad for more considered and deliberate ingestion.

 

Below are a set of thoughts that I would usually bombard Twitter with but I am not going to as I don't wish to bore/piss people off.

 

- The screen is pretty much the right size. Anything smaller and it'd invade the iPhone, anything larger and you'd start to think a laptop is the right tool.

 

- The screen does end up with finger prints all over it. This isn't a surprise and the same happens to every other touch device I've used. The only reason it feels jarring is because the iPad screen is lovely to look at and putting a finger print on it feels somehow wrong. I expect this to change as it becomes less new.

 

- iPhone apps look horrid on the iPad. They either look stupidly small, or pixelated at the 2x resolution. The only things that don't look retarded are fast moving - non delicate - games. I've managed to replace most applications with iPad counter parts, but not all. Stares at Remote, TuneIn Radio, Skype, OmniFocus and last.fm.

 

- Mail on the iPad is much more usable, I can actually use my email rather than just triage as I do on the iPhone.

 

- Twitter clients that have iPad counter-parts mostly suck.

 

- Apple claim that the browsing experience on the iPad is magical. As I'm neither five years old, a camp old gentleman nor in marketing, I wouldn't use the word magical. I would say it is very nice. You have screen real estate with great touch feedback and pages render quickly.

 

- The iPad is much faster than my iPhone.

 

- My iPhone now feels cramped, slow and claustrophobic.

 

- Maps on the iPhone is useful, maps on the iPad is excellent.

 

- Signing up for 3G data worked very easily - plug in details and sign up. No need for credit check, sitting on hold or talking to other human beings.

 

- I like having 6 icons across the bottom on the dock - my common applications now all live there.

 

- Choosing to go for the 64Gb seemed like the expensive choice. It was the right choice. After sync'ing my music library and about 10 full films and various applications, I'm still left with about 15Gb of space.

 

- Typing in portrait is pecking at the keyboard iPhone style. Landscape, after a little practice, can be done at speed comparable to a normal keyboard.

 

- The weight of the iPad is surprising. It is heavier than you'd expect but the device feels solid so it doesn't feel unnecessarily heavy. Using it with one hand comfortably requires cradling it from the back. Holding it with two hands you'd hold it like a book.

 

- The iPod app is good and makes use of the screen real estate, it would be nice however to have a list - as well as an icon - view for albums.

 

- For universal applications - those written to run both on the iPhone and the iPad - generally feel a lot nicer on the iPad over the iPhone.

 

- The battery is excellent - after using it for about 4 hours solid, the battery had only gone down by ~15%. This seems to genuinely be a device you can charge, use all day and not worry about running out of juice.

 

- Bluetooth support for keyboards is excellent and finally gives me a reason to keep my Apple bluetooth keyboard for travelling where extensive typing might be needed - for example a trip to Sweden for a few days. (I use a Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard for my desktop).

 

- It is absolutely not a laptop replacement for myself. It will do 90% of the things I do on my laptop in a faster, more enjoyable fashion, but this will unlikely to become a code machine. (That being said, IronMonger might come out to play again - my Cocoa Touch port of ferite - for a bit of hacking fun.)

 

- Instapaper is absolutely spot on. Excellent app.

 

All in all I'm really pleased.

 

Now I just need to sort out a car charger for it and my iPhone (the current iPhone one doesn't work for the iPad due to the power demands of the iPad), and a case (I had ordered a neoprene case from amazon.co.uk who emailed me the day after it was due to ship to say it has been delayed).

 

A video I saw on a forum:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHF63b7g50

 

(Very funny piss take of the keynote for the iPad)

[Dunc]

Is it me or are the BBC doing product placement now, the bloke doing the F1 coverage has been carrying an iPad around all morning!!! It's only a WiFi enabled one though, no 3G!

[sneds]

I don't see the point of it.................sorry

 

 

unless some one can explain it to me.

[crut]

I don't see the point of it.................sorry

 

 

unless some one can explain it to me.

 

If you can't see the point - don't worry not everything is for everyone.

[Spike J]

Nice, I've got 2-3 days to wait. All I know is that it has been dispatched from Apple, I've been invoiced and the money has been taken.

 

Just need the iPad now!

 

Which model did you get?

 

I got the 16gig wifi, it's all I could afford, it worked out to £378 in orlando. It's a very nice bit of kit, using the touch screen is a nice experience and you defo need the black boarder round it to hold. There is virtually no boot up time, you can be surfing or downloading emails in under 15 seconds! I have loaded some apps on, games for my 6 year old who uses it like she was born with it!

 

 

The iPad is not a replacement for a pc or laptop, it's just pure entertainment as far as I am concerned.

 

I was beginning to regret not getting the 3G version when I came across a piece of software called Joikuspot, it turns your mobile phone into a wifi hotspot, down loaded it to my E71 and I can surf the net anywhere now with no cables using the 3G network connecting wireless through my phone. I checked the speed and it came back at 7333 - over 10000kbps which is fast enough to stream video....so the test indicated.

 

I am well chuffed

[oc1rob]

I had a quick play in one the other day in PC World, to be fair it was nice and if I wanted a larger Ipod Touch or a big Iphone then that is all fine. It did not feel as if it did anything that my Iphone didnt just a bit bigger.

I still maintain that if you want a coffetable/sofa surfer then its all good and well, but if you have that sort of capability already then there is little point in filling the very slim gap.

[destroyer]

Just ordered a 32g 3g, does anybody know if you can run the same Itunes from your Iphone and Ipad, hence keeping the same music/vids/apps ect