Engadget almost got me excited with a mention of a prototype handwriting keyboard on the iPad, uncovered with a look at the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK. But then I saw the screenshot that led to it. Sorry folks, it’s not new; it’s just the Chinese language keyboard that’s been part of the iPhone for more [...]
Lack of active pen input keeps me from getting too excited about the iPad, but the design has me feeling nostalgic. Roughly 10″ screen, 4:3 aspect ratio, (allegedly) all-day battery life, pure slate. Five years ago, I was lured into tablet computing by a Tablet PC with these very traits.
Tonight at Wayside Theatre we open a rock and roll party called Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Tomorrow I start a week of auditions. No rest for the wicked. Monday and Tuesday I’m in Washington DC for two days of auditions. I’ll see 200 or so actors in the company of about 30 other theatres. [...]
A snowstorm that wasn’t supposed to hit our area that hard, hit us harder than expected. With the unusually cold weather in our area it created quite a bit of havoc. We had to cancel two performances of The Buddy Holly Story at Wayside Theatre today. After dealing with disgruntled customers and getting our response [...]
What was I saying about competition being a good thing for consumers earlier? Here’s a case where it works on our behalf. According to Lifehacker, Google Voice’s web app now allows you to send an SMS message to multiple recipients. This is a feature that is currently lacking on the iPhone natively. Remember the Google [...]
That didn’t take long. In the video that Xavier posted yesterday featuring Walt Mossberg talking with Steve Jobs after the iPad announcement, Mossberg asked Jobs about the price of eBooks in the iBook Store. His question focused on the announced $14.99 price vs. Amazon’s $9.99. Jobs answered with a cryptic comment that the prices will [...]
You’ve seen our coverage of the forthcoming enTourage eDGe which includes Sumocat’s impressions, but you want to know a little bit more. It’s called gadget obsession, and you’ve likely got it if you frequent GottaBeMobile. Good thing the folks at enTourage have come to our rescue and provided a neat little demo of what the [...]
Earlier I commented that the iPad expands Apple’s mobile platform upward, giving higher-end, premium-priced apps a venue apart from the larger, crowded, competitive, price-slashed iPhone app market. But for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Thus, I wonder if Apple’s next step will be to expand downward with a smaller, feature light [...]
Oh, my. Pee-Wee Herman gets an iPad and talks about it with all of his friends. As Matthew Zuras at Switched points out, this production filmed by the Funny or Die folks had to happen pretty quickly given the Wednesday announcement. No spoilers here. Enjoy. Pee-wee Gets An iPad! from Pee-wee Herman
Walt Mossberg had a brief chat with Steve Jobs about the iPad on Wednesday that has some interesting tidbits of information. Mossberg usually speaks very highly of Apple products and has even been accused of being a Mac fanboy. But like many of us, he doesn’t seem 100% sold on the iPad. Ten hours of [...]
Still sifting through the iPad announcement fallout this morning. Couple of opinions that caught my attention regard apps. They’ve got me thinking about how the larger-screened iPad will affect the environment of Apple’s App Store, as well as whether it hurts or helps the future of programming and development.
T-Mobile is doing something for its customers who just cant wait to get their hands on the latest and greatest smartphones, even when they already have one. I know I love my G1, but that doesnt mean I wouldnt want the Nexus One or even the myTouch 3G. T-Mobile is offering post-paid smartphone customers on [...]
There are many, many, many things still to learn about Apple’s iPad. So much so that I’m amazed, but not really, at how much this is becoming a love it or hate it device based on what little we know at the moment. To be honest, this Tableteer, is combing through reports to discover what [...]
Tablets are the in thing at the moment in the Year of the Tablet, or Tablet 2.0. Of course that’s before anyone really has any of these devices in hand and able to figure them out. The iPad firestorm continues to consume whatever oxygen is out there and will continue to do so. But soon [...]
Some discourse between the team and across the Internet about the $130 price tag on adding a 3G module to the iPad. I don’t find it that unusual. Vendors regularly charge $100+ to add a 3G module to a notebook. 3G USB or ExpressPort modems are also in this range. Tack on the Apple premium, [...]
The folks behind these Hitler parodies do a great job and I always find them hilarious. This one is hot of the presses as Hitler responds to the news of the iPad and some of the lacking features. The folks at HP working on that slate will want to stay tuned for the final moments.
Not the most exciting video demo I’ve seen of multi-touch, but I give the guys from Cypress Semiconductor credit for cutting to the chase in showing us why current multi-touch screen solutions for tablets are inadequate. Not sure which competitor they’re showing in the video. The two-finger touch limit indicates Wacom, but don’t hold me [...]
Michael Dell of Dell Computers (duh) was caught out in the cold at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with nothing but a Dell Mini 5, a.k.a., the Streak, to keep his hands warm. I bet they were quite toasty because the device looks pretty hot. No demo of the functionality, but he was [...]
Nothing excites a geek more than a new gadget to talk and speculate about. After the recent Apple announcement of the new iPad, several members of the GottaBeMobile Gang and Notebooks.com gang got together to chew the fast and discuss our initial impressions of the iPad. Ben Lang, Josh Smith, Sumocat, Xavier Lanier and I [...]
Remember that little trademark dispute over the name iPad we mentioned a week or so ago? You know the one where Fujitsu claims it has the trademark on iPad? Apple wants it. Fujitsu says it has it. Claims are made that Fujtsu never followed through on the process. Start the meter on legal fees. Fujitsu [...]
Sifting through the noise about the iPad this morning, I’ve come across a few expressions of puzzlement over the camera connector accessories. Warner scratched his head about this too when he covered the accessories yesterday. Certainly we can all see why the iPad should have included a built-in SD slot and/or USB port, but I’m [...]
So, yesterday was THE day. The all-powerful Steve Jobs delivered his latest creation unto the masses. All hail Jobs and his tablet, the iPad. Well, I have had time to digest everything. I read all the blogs. I spoke to friends in the tech industry as well as just friends and family. I meditated on [...]
In my view there are quite a few folks who are really happy that yesterday’s iPad announcement is over. Many of these folks are competitors or “me-too” manufacturers on some level. Apple made a big splash and everyone is still drying out from the overwash and sorting through things. Apple may have indeed hit a [...]
MSI has announced that its Tegra based Tablet will be available in the second half of this year and be priced at $500. I’m guessing we’ll be seeing a few of these Tablet announcements over the next few months and they will all have some things in common. They will all have a release date [...]
Around 1450, a man named Johannes Gutenberg created a device that has had an immeasurable impact upon all people. His machine, the printing press, made it possible for text to be distributed much faster than the scribing process. Fast forward to 2010, the year that Steve Jobs and Apple Computer introduce the iPad. The iPad, [...]
The good folks at Evernote wish us all a Happy Tablet Day and have pledged to “support the hell” out of the iPad. Evernote is going to support the Apple iPad. Oh Yeah. We’re gonna support the hell out of it. We’re glad to see that the current Evernote iPhone app will run on the [...]
Okay, so we finally got to see the mythic Apple Tablet, ending years (OMG! Years!) of rumors and speculation. But did is the iPad the one tablet to rule them all? No, of course not. One device can never satisfy every usage scenario and personal preference, so here are some tablets for the rest of [...]
Okay, so my reasons for not wanting an iPad boil down to lack of active pen input and me being a steadfast pen enthusiast. Obviously, I’m in the extreme minority on that (in the rest of the world, not on this site), but I worked hard to carve that niche, so I’m not about to [...]
Being a mobile computing enthusiast, I’m often viewed by normal people, non-geeks, as being on the cutting edge, the high-tech guy. However, after putting my hands on multiple tablets at CES and seeing the unveiled glory of the iPad, I feel like a dinosaur headed toward extinction. The reason? I’m a pen-centric Tablet PC holdout [...]
The folks at SlashGear got some hands of video of the iPad. Worth a look. I’m just going to say this after watching this. As someone who did not go to CES2010 and get to see the tsunami of Tablets there, watching this video I see fundamentally no real differences between what I viewed of [...]
Noticing that there is no camera on the new Apple iPad, I went looking at the specs page. Sure enough there is an extra accessory (actually two versions) that lets you plug your camera via USB into the iPad to import pictures, or an accessory that lets you plug in a SD card for importing. [...]
Just finished taking in the iPad press event. The question I’m asking myself: Should Microsoft + partners worry? Not yet, but they need to respond quickly and present a better solution. That better solution is a Courier + Zune integrated experience that completely hides Windows 7 from the user. With Windows 7 multi-tasking, handwriting support for [...]
Some caveats. First, all of my opinions here are subject to change as more is unveiled. More on that in a minute. Second, while I’m sure I and any GBM Team will be accused of Microsoft bias, let me state upfront I wanted this device to be an brilliant and sudden change in what we [...]
The iPad pricing starts at $499 for 16GB up to $829 for a model that does 3G. Non-3G will be shipping in 60 days. Another 30 days later the 3G models will be available. Speaking of 3g, only one carrier and that is AT&T. There is a no contract plan that gives you two options. [...]
Not 100% sure the iPad screen is exactly 4:3, but it sure isn’t widescreen. Looked blocky to me, but then I remembered the fuss when Tablet PCs transitioned from 4:3 to widescreen. Lot of people weren’t happy about the narrowness of the screens in portrait. Where do you stand? Happy to go back or happier [...]
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