We’ve waited so long for it but in the end, and as cool as it is, if I find it just a little meh but at the same time I want one does that make me a bad person?
We’ve waited so long for it but in the end, and as cool as it is, if I find it just a little meh but at the same time I want one does that make me a bad person? Sure, I had hoped for something in-between the iPhone and a MacBook, in terms of size that is exactly what it is. But, I’ll be honest my first impression was that “it’s just a giant iPod Touch” (or iPod Touch 3GXL…)
It is running what is basically the iPhone OS, with slightly bigger icons, and plenty of space between them on the home screen. I mean plenty. A small child could thump their paw down on the screen an only hit one app. It has the general iPhone feel (flick/pinch/swipe etc) to the interface, with the exception of the OS X style dock, also with really spaced out icons (I wonder how many you can actually put on it?).
| Great |
Good |
So-So |
Price point
Design
Speed
No Flash |
Delicious Library… err, I mean iBooks
It runs iPhone apps (including those you already own)
Tech specs — seem pretty good for the price
Redesigned core apps
Claimed battery life |
The Bezel
The way iPhone apps run
No Camera
Additional cost for 3G
The name. iPad? hmm… |
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It’s widely believed that we will finally see an Apple tablet of some description revealed later this week, since plenty of other people have already covered in a fair amount of detail the speculation around the technical specs of such a device, I’m going to keep this simple.
What might the event reveal? Some (unlikely) possibilities
- The ‘tablet’ will be just like all the fan-made mockups we’ve seen in the past couple of years.
- The ‘tablet’ will be completely different to everything people have dreamed up over the past couple of years — remember how wrong all those iPhone mockups were prior to the reveal of the original iPhone
- The ‘tablet’ probably won’t be available with a docking LED display or add-on keyboard as Tim Van Damme hopes but it sure would be awesome if it did.
- The ‘tablet’ will run the iPhoneOS just on a bigger screen (unlikely)
- The ‘tablet’ will run full OS X, or an optimised version for the ‘lesser’ hardware
- The ‘tablet’ will run a “new” OS which will still have OS X as the base, but with a new (awesome) UI
- The next gen iPhone hardware will be previewed (unlikely)
- The iPhone 4.0 software will be previewed (maybe)
- The MacBook Pro line will get an update with new Core i5/i7 processors etc
- An LED cinema display in a size other than 24-inch
- Or… we’ll all be disappointed when there is no ‘tablet’ announcement, no iPhone 4.0 announcement, no MBP update — instead Apple announce that they’re moving more into the software side of things and that their first product will be a direct competitor for Photoshop.
