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Posts Tagged ‘ipad’

the iPad experience

In Technology on 6 June 2010 tagged Apple, gadgets, gear, Hardware, ipad with no comments

I got an iPad. Shocking! I’d like to say that deb (who has some good app recommendations here) made me get an iPad, or that it was forced on me but that’s not really the case. I wanted one despite my efforts to not want one.
The iPad represents a shift towards a kind of computing [...]

iPod fat = iPad

In Technology on 27 January 2010 tagged Apple, fat, ipad, iPhone, iPod, Technology with 3 comments

Watched some of the live stream from Engadget on the iPad announcement today. It was, as expected, a tablet shaped like a big iPod. It comes with wireless and it can hook up to a 3G network if you buy the big one. Notably, for me, were the things it didn’t do:

No camera (!)
Poor battery [...]