01-28-2010, 01:31 AM | #16 |
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01-28-2010, 01:42 AM | #17 |
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Don't forget the massive 10 hours of battery life
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01-28-2010, 02:33 AM | #20 |
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01-28-2010, 02:52 AM | #21 |
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Right, you stick with that plan and then let us know how it is working. Some of us might enjoy a product with the best SDK for a mobile device ever (the OS isn't too shabby either).
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01-28-2010, 02:58 AM | #22 |
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It's exactly what I was hoping for - a big iPod Touch. I'll be buying one when it's launched here in the UK.
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01-28-2010, 03:42 AM | #24 |
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I'll probably take a hard look at it in a few months to half a year if nothing else appears. It may well be crippled in quite a few ways, but it might still be one of my best options.
What I'm really interested in is what things may be announced in the near future by competitors. Some may have been holding off on announcements to let the Apple frenzy calm down a bit, and some may be working up product responses to the iPad more directly. I just hope they don't go down the road of blindly cloning it without improving on any of its weaknesses. I'm glad there's a decent, popular, "fast" device out there today. If some major content gets ported to the iPad and similar devices with more polished presentation, even ebook quality standards may improve, if ever so slightly. |
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Not if it's already in a suitable format for the iPod Touch, which means MPEG4 with a couple of different choices of CODEC (H264 and something else which escapes me). I rip all my video in that format to start with, because that way it's playing on the iPod and on my PC.
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Yes, but still - you'll end up having to do a lot of reencoding of video if you want to watch a lot of things on it. This also doesn't bode well for broad format support of any kind from it. (I'd expect MP3 for music, but not say Ogg...)
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01-28-2010, 04:59 AM | #28 |
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I LOVE it!
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This thing is gimped from top to bottom. I went off to price some other alternatives, and I can get a netbook with 14 hours of battery time for less than the iPad. $500 for a Mac storefront. People will buy anything. |
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