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Originally Posted by Sonist
(although the Motorola-made "Nexus Two" with a physical keyboard is not my idea of elegant - but I suppose it may appeal to corporate types who currently carry BBs).
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Physical keyboard on a phone is a must for me. I hate texting with on screen keyboard on a small screen (even the iPhone).
I have an LG voyager and love the qwerty keyboard for texting. But I hate the touch screen on the front for dialing phone numbers, scrolling through contacts etc. Of course, part of that is the touch screen on it sucks compared to the iPhone....
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Originally Posted by m-reader
Even without getting into merits of iPad as a device itself, I agree with Doctorow on the most important issue here. Just the fact alone that Apple sells you a product with an Apple operating system which can only run Apple Approved (C) Applications sold by Apple Store with (coming in v4) Apple approved and delivered Ads - scares me to hell and back.
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I don't like it, and it does give me a bit of pause in buying an iPad vs. seeing if some more open tablet comes out from someone else that can match the form factor, screen, battery life, UI etc. without being closed.
But it doesn't scare me. At the end of the day as long as I can get apps that work well for all my needs, I don't care about Apple controlling what apps are released.
I have pretty basic needs in a tablet--e-book apps, a good PDF annotation app, streaming video apps (netflix, network sites, hulu etc.), e-mail, newspapers, weather, magazines, comics etc.
So even a little over a week in, the iPad has most of the Apps I need, and I'm impressed with them so far from playing around on my girlfriend's iPad. It's more wanting a file management system, maybe an inch or so larger screen etc. that has me waiting that the closed nature of Apple products. My needs are basic and I'm not a customizer/tweaker/tech head in general so that's just not something that affects me much personally.