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iPad, Quick Review and things to know if buying from the US. (now with pics)

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  • #92
    x43r0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭x43r0


    Just got mine earlier and am posting from it now!

    Not much to say from it yet as I've only just finished setting it up but damn do I love this thing. The typing experience in landscape is fantastic!

    Also just the sheer speed of it is great!

    Very happy with it especially considering it was a gift :D


  • #93
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    abitofacomedian wrote: »
    Specifically can you check www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and see if any of the radio Listen Again shows will play. They work on a desktop but I get the "Content Not Available outside the UK" on the mobile version of the site.

    Edit: Thank you for your quick response and much appreciated. Where are my manners?

    Wow, that's a fairly specific request, one of the few advanced iPlayer features available overseas that's currently available only in flash.

    Not through the iPlayer website as that's a flash/realaudio stream, there is a mobile version of the site but that doesn't contain all of the features of the iPlayer itself.

    Don't rush out and buy an iPad yet if that's your killer mobile need but it looks like the BBC are fairly committed to bringing their content to multiple mobile platforms.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8519783.stm

    They are apparently working on an iPhone App for radio, but it's currently only in Beta from the iPlayer labs.


  • #94
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Kailyn Fast Hen wrote: »
    This is the approach most seem to take and thankfully the user agents for each of the devices (phone/touch/pad) are different enough that it's unlikely an iPad would be matched as a mobile device. That said all three devices identify themselves as Mobile Safari so if a site is matching on Mobile Safari then the iPad would be redirected to a mobile version.

    Haven't been directed to a single mobile site on it yet, a web site would need to go out of it's way to redirect an iPad user to a mobile version of their site and they'd have to be fairly misguided to do that given the resolution of the iPad.


  • #95
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    That's a big question for anyone considering acquiring an iPhone/iTouch/iPad.

    In short, most websites will work as long as they are not written entirely (or partly) in flash.

    websites written entirely in flash
    No, they just won't work.

    For websites written partly in flash
    Just the flash parts won't work.

    If you don't know how to check if a website uses flash post a URL here and I'll either try and show you how to check or I'll try and check and report back.

    Flash is most popular for:

    Animated advertising
    Embedded video
    Browser based games

    If you have a specific website you can't live without, don't buy an iPhone/iTouch/iPad unless you are sure it falls into one of these categories:

    No Flash (safe for iPhone/iTouch/iPad)
    Low Flash (safe for iPhone/iTouch/iPad but you won't see flash adverts)
    Hi Flash (not safe for iPhone/iTouch/iPad without major loss of functionality)
    App Safe (there's an iPhone/iTouch/iPad App which recreates the website with no loss of functionality)
    App Safe$ (you can buy an iPhone/iTouch/iPad App which recreates the website with no loss of functionality)


  • #96
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Not sure if your can't live without website works on the iPad/iPhone/iTouch?

    There's a thread for that:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65284408


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  • #97
    vinnycoyne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭vinnycoyne


    Merged the two threads.


  • #98
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,831 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Kailyn Fast Hen wrote: »
    I guess the problem I have with the "review" that started all this is the blinkered view the OP has about the iPad, the whole "let's talk about all the good things about the iPad but please don't dwell on Flash or DRM". Simply dismissing Flash as not important is just inviting people to correct you.

    I agree that it's fairly strange to entitle a thread as a review and then have a mini-freak attack when people try to discuss the negatives of the device, telling people to get off your thread and such.

    Especially when it seems the OP will happily discuss the pros of alternatives:
    Graham wrote: »
    Absolutely Basquille, Ajax is definitely the way web sites should be heading.

    OP, is there anything you've found bad about the iPad to this point?


  • #99
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Keane2097, the reason I didn't particularly want to discuss flash is the Ipad doesn't support it, so as long as people know that up front I don't see that it's a problem. Particularly as its not something thats going to change.

    I was worried the thread would look something like this:

    comment 1
    But it doesn't support flash
    comment 2
    But it doesn't support flash
    comment 3
    But it doesn't support flash
    comment 4
    But it doesn't support flash

    Luckily I needn't have worried. :rolleyes:

    No, it doesn't support flash. If flash is essential to you, this is not the device for you.

    Negatives so far, I'm sure there will be more after more extensive use:
    It's more substantial than you would anticipate.
    The screen is a fingerprint magnet, it really should have come with a cloth. I'm in the office with it now after my colleagues have given it a thorough mauling.
    Some of the iPhone games run almost twice as fact on the iPad. Makes for some frenzied gaming.


  • #100
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    keane2097 wrote: »
    I agree that it's fairly strange to entitle a thread as a review and then have a mini-freak attack when people try to discuss the negatives of the device, telling people to get off your thread and such.

    Point taken, but it's a non-issue as far as I am concerned that the device doesn't support Flash. It's nothing new, business as usual, as you were, etc.

    So, let's not derail the thread with further discussion of Flash as it is not iPad specific, it is a common attribute of all Apple Media Devices.


  • #101
    silvine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭silvine


    The typing experience in landscape is fantastic!

    Would you type a long document, ie a college essay, on it?

    Can you touch type and or build up fast typing speeds?

    Is it ergonomic?


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  • #102
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    ironically enough, the tom dunne show on newstalk are looking for an ipad owner to review it for the show....he tweeted it earlier.


  • #103
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    ironically enough, the tom dunne show on newstalk are looking for an ipad owner to review it for the show....he tweeted it earlier.

    Graham ,

    Tweet him this Thread...You are more than qualified to review .

    M.


  • #104
    achecketts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭achecketts


    mixednuts wrote: »
    Graham ,

    Tweet him this Thread...You are more than qualified to review .

    M.

    With previous radio experience..

    http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Matt-Cooper/Matt-Cooper-Blog.aspx

    (sorry Graham, I had to do it).


  • #105
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    silvine wrote: »
    Would you type a long document, ie a college essay, on it?

    Can you touch type and or build up fast typing speeds?

    Is it ergonomic?

    Havent typed much on it but have had no problems so far. Not sure I'd want to use an on screen keyboard for enormous documents. You can get the Keyboard dock, or use a bluetooth keyboard with it. Will post about this again when I've done more typing on it.


  • #106
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    mixednuts wrote: »
    Graham ,

    Tweet him this Thread...You are more than qualified to review .

    M.

    Don't have a twitter a/c mixednuts otherwise I would. Was in with TodayFM yesterday evening with the iPad.


  • #107
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    Graham wrote: »
    Don't have a twitter a/c mixednuts otherwise I would. Was in with TodayFM yesterday evening with the iPad.

    Just watched your Interview , well done .

    Boards.ie ---> to Today FM ____> What next ? (Steve Jobs Job ! ) ;)


  • #108
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    mixednuts wrote: »
    Just watched your Interview , well done .

    Boards.ie ---> to Today FM ____> What next ? (Steve Jobs Job ! ) ;)

    Watched my interview :eek:


  • #109
    Mikey23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭Mikey23


    As someone who'd a muppety moment with US/Ire plugs, converters & voltages, I thought I'd ask. I gather it needs 10w to charge, so would the included unit work with just a regular UK/Ire plug slotted in (like this fella) or are there other differences?

    Very much want one myself but how to share one with the other half without profiles or similar in Safari is a bit of a bummer.


  • #110
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Mikey23 wrote: »
    As someone who'd a muppety moment with US/Ire plugs, converters & voltages, I thought I'd ask. I gather it needs 10w to charge, so would the included unit work with just a regular UK/Ire plug slotted in (like this fella) or are there other differences?

    Very much want one myself but how to share one with the other half without profiles or similar in Safari is a bit of a bummer.

    International travel kit contains the UK plug and can be slotted onto the iPad power adapter in place of the US one. I'll try and post a pic later. I think thats the part in your photo from the travel kit.


  • #111
    ROS123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭ROS123


    Mods, please delete this link if not appropriate, the most detailed review I've seen. http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/04/ipad-review.ars/


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  • #112
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    ROS123 wrote: »
    Mods, please delete this link if not appropriate, the most detailed review I've seen. http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/04/ipad-review.ars/

    For all the FLASH worriers ...From Page 10 .

    "More and more video providers are switching to HTML5 video on the Web, meaning that the ability to watch live broadcasts via Mobile Safari on the iPad is just around the corner. "


  • #113
    Mikey23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭Mikey23


    Graham wrote: »
    International travel kit contains the UK plug and can be slotted onto the iPad power adapter in place of the US one. I'll try and post a pic later. I think thats the part in your photo from the travel kit.

    Rats, have that bit from the iPhone charger, so thought I'd save myself that kit & spend it on an accessory instead. It has "Max 2.5A 250V-50HZ" on it - is that different to what's on your UK plug?


  • #114
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Will check when I get home


  • #115
    bert911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭bert911


    If u download the ABC player app & Netflix app on the ipad from U.S itunes account will it stream over wifi in I reland , or will it be blocked !


  • #116
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    Graham,

    I think you answered this one before , cant seem to find the post .

    I see from your Vid that the iPad is in a fold up case , is this an extra accessory or comes as standard ?


  • #117
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    bert911 wrote: »
    If u download the ABC player app & Netflix app on the ipad from U.S itunes account will it stream over wifi in I reland , or will it be blocked !

    Tries it last night, got the app ok with a US account but was blocked when trying to play.

    They must be doing IP geotagging.


  • #118
    Victor_M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭Victor_M


    Graham wrote: »
    Watched my interview :eek:

    In fairness to you, you did very well. thanks for the early review.

    I don't really need an iPad, but for some reason I really want one!


  • #119
    bert911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭bert911


    I wait for the euro release of the ipad , I hope sky & rte have app players ready soon for ipad !


  • #120
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    ROS123 wrote: »
    Mods, please delete this link if not appropriate, the most detailed review I've seen. http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/04/ipad-review.ars/

    I read that this morning. It is very thoughtful. I don't agree with all of it but at least they acknowledge that they can't make up their collective mind about what it all means.


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  • #121
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    bert911 wrote: »
    I wait for the euro release of the ipad , I hope sky & rte have app players ready soon for ipad !

    iPhone versions of most apps work really well on the iPad, either at normal or X2 size.

    Some iPhone games run much quicker on the ipad though.

    The BBC Worldwide already have an iPad app, it's very slick.


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