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

Graham

1) it's probably going to be cheaper from the US, but you knew that already.

2) It comes with a US power adapter(surprise), you can charge via the supplied (US)USB or your iPhone adapter which takes twice as long.

3) If you buy the 'World Travel Adapter Kit' you can swap the country specific part of the iPad adapter for a Irish/UK style plug.

4) iPad software is only available from the US store at the moment so get yourself a few iTunes gift cards in US dollar denominations.

5) Prepare to be wowed, it's one of the fastest browsing experiences you will ever have had to date. Web pages render faster than my iMac/PC/anything.

6) Shocker, it doesn't support flash :rolleyes:

7) It's a big iPod Touch, but that's the whole point. It will change your browsing habits.

8) It looks and feels fantastic.

9) It has the weight of a reasonably heavy book.

10) All of the Irish 'reviews' I've found so far are nothing but rehashes of press releases and other reviews, no one mentions the hands on experience.

11) It still doesn't have flash. But that's nearly irrelevant as adobe CS5 will be able to generate native iPhone code for submission to the App Store. Expect to see a lot of familiar flash apps in iTunes real soon.

12) It still has DRM for SOME things you get from the app store. You don't have to take that route. You can source DRM free material from wherever you've got it in the past, just be aware you may need to convert it.

13) The 16GB iPad is below the duty/VAT free limit if you're bringing one back in from the US as long as the value of everything you're bringing back is below €430.

14) If you're getting one in the US, take your laptop. You have to activate it in iTunes before you can us it AT ALL.

15) It doesn't support flash. If flash is essential to you the iPad probably isn't the device for you.

16) Will "insert favourite website URL" Work on the iPhone/iTouch/iPad, see this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65284408

I will happily answer any questions if you're genuinely interested in buying an iPad. I will not get into a debate on the pros and cos of DRM/Flash as they're not relevent to me.

You want photos of anything on it, ask.

You want me to try something on it, again just ask and I'll take pics.

If you're a member of the Irish media/press who want's to try an iPad out for real, just ask and I'll try and arrange to meet you.

If you're just interested in having a play and you're based around Dublin, again just ask. If I can accommodate you I will.

In short, questions only please, if you want to start a rant about DRM/Flash support, kindly start another thread. You are entitled to your thoughts but please don't add them to this thread.

Pics to follow very shortly.

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Dr Galen

they had 8 16gb Wifi left. Had a good few of the other types in stock too, but, they were expecting a rush. No one really knew that they would have them apparenty, but there were adverts in the Northern Papers that apart from Apple Store, no where else would have them so they were expecting a rush. If you check the PC World websie there is a stock checker page, I'd look at that before going anywhere mate

Narcissus

Dr Galen wrote: »

they had 8 16gb Wifi left. Had a good few of the other types in stock too, but, they were expecting a rush. No one really knew that they would have them apparenty, but there were adverts in the Northern Papers that apart from Apple Store, no where else would have them so they were expecting a rush. If you check the PC World websie there is a stock checker page, I'd look at that before going anywhere mate

cheers man

wayne040576

grizzly wrote: »

The UK have iBookstore paid content now. Does anyone know if this is up on the Irish store as well? How do the prices compare?

Irish store still doesn't have them.

banquo

It'll be july until then. Should be have a sticky with a guide to ''How to set up a US iTunes account''?

moralproduction

I've a 64gb wifi iPad available on adverts if anyones looking for one ?

Narcissus

Just back from heading up to sprucefield. There was barely anyone in pc world when I was there. They said that the only model they didn't have was the 16 gb wifi + 3g. I imagine they still have a good few of the others.

Got a 32gb 3g model myself.

BrookieD

question for iPad owners navigating boards.ie
What is it like when navigating the mebu at the top of the page? Does the ipad dril into the sub menu's? and expand the selection

jesus_thats_gre

Works perfectly.

Nedved85

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Works perfectly.

Yup works fine, anyone installed the sky app?can you watch tv on it?I tried logging in but get an error,

culabula

Currently using eyeTV app, eyeTV web app and TVCatchup on mine. Also BBC iPlayer (via blackVPN when out of OTs).

Branoic

BrookieD wrote: »

question for iPad owners navigating boards.ie
What is it like when navigating the mebu at the top of the page? Does the ipad dril into the sub menu's? and expand the selection

Works grand, though sometimes the menus don't expand right underneath the main category titles but instead on the other side of the screen like they're do on the iPhone if viewing the full site. It's not as big a problem on the ipad.

cojomo2

Do most iPhone apps also work on the iPad?

I have an app for viewing cctv remotely on the iphone, but the screen is so small it's not great. Would this work on the iPad?

Just wondering, as I got 1 yesterday and haven't opened it yet as I still haven't decided if I should indulge and keep it or sell it (financial situation is pretty poor at the moment:mad:)

jesus_thats_gre

Nedved85 wrote: »

Yup works fine, anyone installed the sky app?can you watch tv on it?I tried logging in but get an error,

I get a network error when I enter the correct details. I get an authentication error when I purposely enter the wrong login details.

jesus_thats_gre

Branoic wrote: »

Works grand, though sometimes the menus don't expand right underneath the main category titles but instead on the other side of the screen like they're do on the iPhone if viewing the full site. It's not as big a problem on the ipad.

Hmmm, that hasn't happened to me yet.

wayne040576

I've come across quite a few sites that don't work with the ad. Sites that use flash to make client side controls are obvious but I have also had trouble with some sites that don't have flash. Always seems to be the same thing: the site works until i log in and then it won't update with account details.

This happened on screen click and codemasters' online site and a couple of others.

OCD

Don't mean to hijack the thread folks but seeing as most people in this one seem to have an iPad I was wondering if anyone is getting freezes during video playback? It has happened to me during YouTube and vimeo play. After reading several forums it seems to be a hardware issue. Any thoughts?

Link to Apple forum discussing issue.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2388446&start=240&tstart=0

KeithM89_old

OCD wrote: »

Don't mean to hijack the thread folks but seeing as most people in this one seem to have an iPad I was wondering if anyone is getting freezes during video playback? It has happened to me during YouTube and vimeo play. After reading several forums it seems to be a hardware issue. Any thoughts?

Nope - honestly never heard of it happening either

Maybe its the wi-fi connection in general

John.Smith

Got mine yesterday - it's growing on me. I planned on using it for casual browsing, which is fine, but I also wanted to read PDF's on it. I have a bank of about 40 PDFs which I'd commonly use - is there any way to keep all these on the iPad itself and dip in and out of them as I see fit?

Graham

John.Smith wrote: »

Got mine yesterday - it's growing on me. I planned on using it for casual browsing, which is fine, but I also wanted to read PDF's on it. I have a bank of about 40 PDFs which I'd commonly use - is there any way to keep all these on the iPad itself and dip in and out of them as I see fit?

I use Memeo, it synch's with Google docs for offline viewing and supports loads of different doc types.

Basq

Just a heads-up lads,

Zagg have a 50% off sale today only!

So you can get the iPad skin for under €20 delivered:

iPad - Wi-Fi Only
iPad - 3G + Wi-Fi

Like I said, it'll work out at $23.48 (or under €20) delivered.

These skins are the absolute "dogs balls" - I already have one for my iPhone and they protect the screen, and keep it smudge-free but still retain all the sensitivity.

I can't recommend them enough!

PS - I've even bought one for the iPad I haven't even bought yet!

OCD

Keithm89 wrote: »

Nope - honestly never heard of it happening either

Maybe its the wi-fi connection in general

no, not the wifi. i have tested 2 iphones (a 3g and a 3gs) on the same wifi at the same time, before and after lockup and the iphones still stream.

OCD

John.Smith wrote: »

Got mine yesterday - it's growing on me. I planned on using it for casual browsing, which is fine, but I also wanted to read PDF's on it. I have a bank of about 40 PDFs which I'd commonly use - is there any way to keep all these on the iPad itself and dip in and out of them as I see fit?

you could also use dropbox (free) and goodreader ($1). both must-have apps.

BeeDI

Would an iPad be an option in the following circumstance as alternative to a laptop.

Other half, only took up computers less than 2 years ago. Knows her way around laptop now. Ok at googling and email. Using microsoft word to type up docs for some part time college course she is doing. That goes ok, till it comes to saving the documents, when all hell breaks loose. Usually doesn't know where she saved doc, if she saved doc, or what she called doc, and then if its a matter of saving onto a USB stick, well then it's a matter of

:D:mad::):eek::cool::cool::pac::pac::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: , if you know what I mean.

I'm guessing the iPad may be more intuitive, and easier to become competent on it.
Fine for email and browsing.
Question being, would it be ok, for fairly light duty word processing, and infrequent and simple basic spreadsheets??
Would my OH, find it a more user friendly tool?

Thanks

B

Branoic

Your other half is the iPad's primary target market I would say.

adox

None to be had here in NY. Rang the Apple store Saturday morning to see if they had stock or if I could reserve one. No stock and at least a weeks waiting list.

culabula

iphone user of two years standing, iPad since Saturday.

Finding auto-correction very annoying and different to the iPhone. Typically all manner of words are having capital letters added to them, right in the middle of sentences. Examples:

For
Your
Guy
One

And so on.

Any ideas on how to stop this?

culabula

Oh -and most annoying of all -The, instead of the. This did not happen on iPhone.

Branoic

I can't say i've come across this problem, and I've done a fair bit of ipad typing.

culabula

Branoic wrote: »

I can't say i've come across this problem, and I've done a fair bit of ipad typing.

Jayz, tis fair wrecking me buzz. Can't figure it out at all.

jesus_thats_gre

Maybe it is time to have a thread where people can give short reviews of iPad software from the App Store and Cydia.

I always liked this thread:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055689569

Am finding it very difficult to find useful information on the subject.