Quote :

"this is irrelevant as all carriers in the United States are shitty, and thats putting it nicely. And as the iPhone has already proven, switching to AT&T really isn't much of an issue for many many many people."

this doesn't change the fact that having and using an iphone requires that you sign a 2 year contract which you make monthly payments on. the ipad does not.

that's all. i'm not going to argue this anymore b/c it's pointless w/ you and it's detracting from the thread. /

6/2/2010 1:34:28 PM

I'll let you know as soon as it gets in. I ordered it right about 4 weeks ago so it should be here within the next 2.

6/2/2010 2:31:34 PM

Quote :

"this doesn't change the fact that having and using an iphone requires that you sign a 2 year contract which you make monthly payments on. the ipad does not. that's all. i'm not going to argue this anymore b/c it's pointless w/ you and it's detracting from the thread. /"

Is there a point in there some where? Both the iPhone and iPad are hugely successful.

One is a phone and the other isn't.

One requires a contract (as all smart phones do) and the other doesn't.

One is large and one is small.

blah blah and blah blah...

6/2/2010 6:13:35 PM

iPad Camera Connection Kit a commodity item, now fetches $100+ on eBay
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/ipad-camera-connection-kit-a-commodity-item-now-fetches-100-o/



wtf people?

6/2/2010 10:49:25 PM

6/2/2010 10:53:41 PM

This is so beyond awesome.

6/3/2010 7:45:33 AM

yes

that is amazing

6/3/2010 8:51:13 AM

when my cell phone & air card contracts are up in like 6months i've considered the following:

- get the most basic cell phone i can from verizon so i can have just a voice & text plan (since they require a data plan now if your phone is data-capable)

- get an ipad and use that as my would-be "smart phone" but without having the smart phone. i do a lot of talking & texting but i have little interest in the smart phones because they're too small & finniky for me (for example, your tapping has to be too precise for my liking due to the small screen). i'd prefer to just carry an ipad in my purse & use that to check up on email, look something up on google, get directions, do whatever.

is there a drawback im not seeing in this plan? as i see it, i can do everything i would be able to do on an iphone, but on a bigger screen (and obvi not make phone calls, besides skpe--right?). i know you'll say that a drawback is that i have to carry it around with me, but i already carry a purse and it really wouldn't be that big of a deal (for me) to pull it out to do what i "could" do on a smart phone.

6/6/2010 2:16:55 PM

^better buy that iPad before tomorrow if you want unlimited data plan with 3g.

6/6/2010 2:46:09 PM

so when is the iPad with 4g coming? oh wait

6/6/2010 3:57:13 PM

^April 2011? Oh wait what?

6/6/2010 4:00:26 PM

Quote :

"This is so beyond awesome. "

I think it would be more awesome if you could use a USB version of the classic SNES controller.

6/6/2010 4:26:56 PM

You can use a wii remote. I think that's better, being wireless and all.

6/8/2010 5:41:26 PM

Quote :

"AT&T Accidentally Shares 114,000 iPad 3G Buyers' Email Addresses"

http://www.dailytech.com/ATT+Accidentally+Shares+114000+iPad+3G+Buyers+Email+Addresses/article18670.htm

Quote :

"Apple can't be happy with AT&T's epic security fail In what is one of the biggest leaks of emails in recent history, a group called Goatse Security has published the personal emails of 114,067 iPad 3G purchasers according to Gawker. The emails were obtained in what appears to be a legal fashion by querying a public interface that AT&T accidentally left exposed. The names of victims immediately draw attention to the story. Among them are New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson, Diane Sawyer of ABC News, film mogul Harvey Weinstein, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and even White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. A number of CEOs, CFOs, and CTOs also had their emails exposed by the leak. Additionally, a number of the email addresses exposed were from high-ranking military officials or DARPA researchers. Among these was William Eldredge, who "commands the largest operational B-1 [strategic bomber] group in the U.S. Air Force." Every one of these individuals and thousands of other everyday people had their email addresses and corresponding ICC-IDs (integrated circuit card identifiers) leaked. The ICC-ID is a number used to uniquely identify SIM cards for a particular subscriber's device. How did Goatse get this treasure trove of data? Apparently AT&T left a script on their public website, which when handed an ICC-ID would respond back with the email address of the subscriber. This apparently was intended for an AJAX-style response inside AT&T's web apps. The complete lack of protections allowed the group to freely guess ICC-IDs based on known IDs from iPad pictures posted online, and in turn harvest the resulting emails. The only "trick", if you could call it that, which they had to do was to spoof the site into thinking they were using a iPad browser by adding an iPad-style "User agent" header in their Web request. A simple PHP script later, Goatse Security had a hoards of emails to sift through. And here's the kicker -- before reporting this gaping hole to AT&T, they shared the exploit with various interested parties. So there's no telling who else used it, how many more IDs were leaked, or what other damage could have resulted. With the ICC-ID and unique email in hand, malicious parties could easily launch mass attacks to try to gain further access. For example, it's likely that at least one of those emails with the password "darthvader" would return account access. This huge breach is likely worrisome to those who are thinking of buying an iPad 3G – most people would prefer their personal email address not get shared with the masses. The only consolation here, is that if your password is sufficiently strong and your email address does not hint at your identity, the leak might not be that big a deal (other than subjecting you to a bit of extra spam). Apple, which has already hinted at its displeasure with AT&T on certain issues, certainly can't be thrilled about this development either. It releases a hit new product, and now thanks to the service provider over a hundred thousand of its customers have had their personal information compromised. Apple CEO Steve Jobs surely won't rest until AT&T's gaping hole is filled, but by now the damage is probably already done. One thing's for sure. There's going to be a lot of fallout from this incredible breach."

6/9/2010 6:03:20 PM

Anyone else tried out this a1 perfect browser? I've been using it exclusively for he past couple of days ever since I saw that it was the #1 paid ipad app in the store. I gotta say I was never impressed with any of the alternate iphone browsers but this a1 has safari beat all over.

6/10/2010 8:59:49 PM

^ i'm about to try it out, will report back.

holy crap, ask me some MORE questions on first start up

[Edited on June 10, 2010 at 9:12 PM. Reason : .]

6/10/2010 9:02:07 PM

HOLY FUCK A1 is fast. okay, nacho you won them a convert.

6/10/2010 9:17:47 PM

Yeah I just picked up the iPhone version. I'm liking the tabs and general feel. Good find nacho

6/10/2010 9:32:08 PM

tried it, didnt like it... didnt notice any speed difference and unless I missed it, it doesnt have a bookmark bar which is the feature I like most on safari

6/10/2010 9:55:09 PM

I have 2 iPads...one is working great, the other says "no service" when trying to connect to 3G.

Any ideas what might be the problem? They are side by side and one works great and this other wont let me connect.

It initially worked, and I tried to register/pay for the 3G, and somewhere in the process the connection got lost and the registration didnt go through. No I get "no service".

[Edited on June 11, 2010 at 11:13 AM. Reason : .]

6/11/2010 11:10:23 AM

Nvm....i did a complete reset and now it's working again...sighhhhh

6/11/2010 11:26:43 AM

Onlive for the iPad. Looks pretty amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpFzpF0msrU&feature=player_embedded#!

6/17/2010 11:52:13 AM

Might be getting one of these next week. Thinking just the $499 version. Apple case is the best one?

6/17/2010 12:05:02 PM

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/06/17/netbooks_vs_tablets/

[Edited on June 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM. Reason : ]

6/17/2010 10:18:21 PM

Biggest buyer's remorse with the iPad. I could have probably got 2 netbooks for the price too.

6/19/2010 9:25:13 PM

why dont you like yours? and you can always sell it

6/19/2010 9:51:59 PM

if you have a 3g version, i'll buy it for the price of a netbook.

6/19/2010 10:20:08 PM

shit i might buy it packman...

6/23/2010 9:16:14 AM

question for ipad 3g owners...is the ipad's 3g locked to ATT ?

6/23/2010 12:23:37 PM

I actually bought it for my dad. I use it pretty often when I go to see him.

It's the 16GB, wifi version. Besides the problems of having no optical drive, no SD card, no USB, it's pretty painful to use a lot of the time. All I expected to do with it was to surf the web and use youtube and it sucks at that. Sites that rely on Flash are completely dead. The onscreen keyboard is tedious to use. Copy and Paste options are a pain to execute. Just the simple process of modifying your search box in google is a horrible experience. I can hardly ever see a youtube video (I can get to the video and see the first frame but it won't play).

The only thing I've had a decent experience with on the iPad was google maps. And even that gets aggravating when you're waiting for images to load. And the book application is cool too. I like that you can get a lot of the classics for free.

Overall, I don't think it's worth the money. If it was half the price, I think it would be something cool to have when you can resign to all it's limitations. But for $500, I think a netbook is a much better option.

6/23/2010 2:35:26 PM

User error? I haven't had any problems with youtube that I recall. In-page playback works great.

Also sounds like you tried and failed to buy a laptop.

6/23/2010 4:44:47 PM

still considering getting one. It's defin. not a laptop replacement. I just want one to to play around with and mess with all the cool ipad apps. Don't think i'd actually try to do anything productive on it.

6/23/2010 4:50:26 PM

^^ sounds like you failed to read.

6/23/2010 6:28:02 PM

Quote :

"question for ipad 3g owners...is the ipad's 3g locked to ATT ?"

All iPads come unlocked.

6/23/2010 8:39:49 PM

has anyone had a noticeable drop off in their interest in their iphone like me?

now I basically just use it to make calls haha

6/23/2010 10:55:49 PM

Quote :

"All iPads come unlocked. "

I read somewhere that i could not use Tmobile's dataplan on ipad...how is it not locked then?

6/24/2010 12:34:56 PM

You can but it only has the AT&T 3G bands so you'll only get Edge on Tmobile

6/24/2010 1:00:16 PM

thanks

6/24/2010 2:09:52 PM

^^In this country. If you travel, it will work on most overseas networks just fine. Assuming you can find/cut down a sim card that fits.

6/24/2010 9:32:37 PM

Another demo with Onlive on the iPad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ2uz3bS0Zo&feature=player_embedded

6/26/2010 10:04:11 PM

that is pretty cool

6/26/2010 10:17:57 PM

I'm still waiting to see how that OnLive stuff ends up working with a "real" internet connection. You just know those guys that are demoing that stuff are probably more no more than 2-3 hops away from the servers those games are running on. Let's see how it looks on a DSL connection in Podunk, NC with a 250ms ping time.

6/26/2010 10:25:53 PM

It would do just the same as you would in a city with 250ms or whatever, you really don't lag with Onlive, you'll get disconnected from the servers if enough latency is detected and this is super rare from my experience. Basically, the shit works and works well and my experience is well beyond what I expected. I'm now a believer and I can't wait to see how people are going to flock to it once they really understand the scope of the service. If you have a solid internet connection or a shitty internet connection no matter where you are located the results are going to be the same from what I can tell and I am an active member of the Onlive forums and community so I feel like I can make a call that is at least backed by community feedback.

6/27/2010 7:46:30 AM

Hulu Plus for iPhone and iPad.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/29/hulu-plus-announced-for-iphone-and-ipad/


Blah blah blah $9.99/mo

6/29/2010 10:33:13 PM

Got the Dodocase in. I'm undecided on it so far. It looks so nice that I'm more worried about damaging it getting it dirty than I ever was about the iPad by itself. It doesn't function as a stand nearly as well as the Apple case, the angle it props the iPad up is very slight but it's still better than lying it flat on a table. It does look very good though.

6/30/2010 5:09:38 PM

This is a fairly awesome iPad theme.



from http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=931761

One day when I get bored and have a couple of hours to kill, I might try and set something like that up. I just finally got around to creating a 5x9 icon arrangement tonight and installing CategoriesSB so I got all my apps down to just one page (one page with 45 icons + 6 on the dock, but still, one page)

7/1/2010 2:28:16 AM

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=10436

7/4/2010 9:01:59 AM

http://stadium.weblogsinc.com/engadget/files/Frash-0.01.deb

Engadget leaked a pre-release version of Frash which supposedly wasn't ready for public consumption and contains copyrighted materials from Adobe. But it's out there. I installed it and it seems to work rather well. Except for video content doesn't work yet. So the two videos posted on this page don't work any more. But on the upside, now I can see all those flash based ads I was missing out on all this time.

7/7/2010 3:03:22 PM

I'm sure this is known, and has been done before but I just made a speakerphone call from an iPad (wi-fi only model) thru Skype last night, the quality was great!

7/7/2010 3:48:30 PM

Mine ain't arrive until July 16.

7/7/2010 3:52:52 PM