Ipads - anyone know much about them?

A friend of mine at work has recommended an Asus Transformer prime as an excellent alternative for the IPad. Might be worth a look at that. I have an Android phone and have to say it rocks....

As a byword to that having played with the IPad for a couple of days it is good, just wish I'd played with a couple of other devices first before plumping for it.
 
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I found Chat & Vision ...all apparently in stock and Apple retail stores John Lewis etc plenty out there but you need to clarify which model
Wifi or wifi +3/4G, memory size ,colour
 
Want iPad 3, 16gb wi-fi. Don't need 4g. Ideally like to collect, don't trust next day delivery with her birthday so close.
 
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{"]Want iPad 3, 16gb wi-fi. Don't need 4g. Ideally like to collect, don't trust next day delivery with her birthday so close.
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John Lewis have in plenty stock with 4g in black and they give 2 year warranty ( normal 1 year ) £499
http://www.johnlewis.com/231565387/Product.aspx
Everyone charges same price give or take pence
They will deliver to your nearest JLP store or Waitrose for next day collection or home delivery

OR PCWorld you can check stock by store and reserve probably same for Comet
PLENTY of 16gb models out there
 
Pages is an application that lets you work with word docs. Best thing is when you open a blank document in Pages, it will let you send it as a word or PDF document

Asus Prime is a hellova machine, and with Ice Cream Sandwich, it's amazing. Only down side is apps related....
 
Both my wife and I have an iPad each, have had all three generations now and wouldn't be without them. Use them for work, reading all my mags, books, watching videos, Vimeo, YouTube, even presentations to clients and video conferencing... :)

And as far as Apple stuff goes, I have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air an iMac and two Apple TV's and six airplay zones at home. :D
 
I have the 4G one but not need if you can tether off your phone if you're ever desparate for using it where you haven't got a wi if connection...
 
Just a little curveball, an ipad is far too big for me & I'm not an itunes guy, plus most of the websites I use have Flash so iOS isn't much use.
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I've got a Blackberry Playbook which I bought for £169 at xmas, at this price I'm not so scared of dropping it either. It has native flash, the build quality feels as good as an ipad and it's got better speakers too. There's not a lot of apps for it though but with Flash support most websites just work meaning apps aren't needed eg iplayer. The 32gb one is £189 at the moment too.

For playing music, I've got a little bluetooth gadget that is plugged into my home speakers, then the Playbook connects it's bluetooth to that, & you can walk around with it as it plays 8)

I know it's not for everybody but I have a decent laptop, this is great for sofa browsing or using Kindle on the tube. Mum had an ipad2 for xmas & was a bit gutted when I could play things she couldn't on my 'cheapo' tablet. :D

Went to a wedding in Positano, that's not where you are by any chance is it? 8)
 
Andy said:
Just a little curveball, an ipad is far too big for me & I'm not an itunes guy, plus most of the websites I use have Flash so iOS isn't much use.
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I've got a Blackberry Playbook which I bought for £169 at xmas, at this price I'm not so scared of dropping it either. It has native flash, the build quality feels as good as an ipad and it's got better speakers too. There's not a lot of apps for it though but with Flash support most websites just work meaning apps aren't needed eg iplayer. The 32gb one is £189 at the moment too.

For playing music, I've got a little bluetooth gadget that is plugged into my home speakers, then the Playbook connects it's bluetooth to that, & you can walk around with it as it plays 8)

I know it's not for everybody but I have a decent laptop, this is great for sofa browsing or using Kindle on the tube.

Went to a wedding in Positano, that's not where you are by any chance is it? 8)
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Another small curve ball
Adobe have announced the end of flash development for mobile devices so don't let flash availability influence the decision it is dying a natural death
 
Yep thats true, but the whole point of paying extra for cutting edge devices like this is getting access to tech now; for £200 more, you couldn't watch Final Score off the bbc website today for the results, that would bug me.

It's a bit mad you can't send an email attachment on a brand new £400 Ipad 3 also, I can do this as well as edit docs & xls.

Just thought it might be worth mentioning as you get 2 playbooks for the price of an ipad & im really happy with mine :oops:
 
You can email attachments...pdf's, word docs, excel, pics, etc... :) and you have BC iPLayer which looks great on the iPad :)

Where did you get the idea you can't edit word, excel, etc?
 
just someone else in the thread said it, never tried it. :oops:

& Yes iplayer is great, but all the live content such as red button, snooker etc is flash only
 
GSARider said:
You can email attachments...pdf's, word docs, excel, pics, etc... :) and you have BC iPLayer which looks great on the iPad :)

Where did you get the idea you can't edit word, excel, etc?
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So which apps do you use for such functionality?

PS don't say VDI as you need 500k plus of enterprise infrastructure behind that ;)


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Various apps depending on what it is I'm doing, such as Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Dropbox, etc. given the sheer volume of apps available, there's plenty to suit. Most apps that save files in any format allow sending via email.

. The structure of an iPad is based on the activity being performed and not a file structure such as on a traditional PC.

Now the play book is worthy of consideration, but only due to the reduced price and if the person buying understands the limited usability and apps for it, flash playing notwithstanding.
 
'pages' is poor to say the least

Not sure about 'keynote' - but you say you can edit all office format docs with these two apps?





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Went shopping for one today - needless to say I couldn't find one. But whilst in Currys I found something which is going to be ideal, an Asus Slider. One thing my girlfriend mentioned is "how do you type on an iPad" so figured the slide out keyboard this comes with would go down a treat.

I've always been an Android fan (never had an Apple product) so this really appeals to me too. Anyway they didn't have stock of those either so did a bit of research and they get very good reviews too. Comes out at £399. Think i'm going to go for one :thumbsup:
 
Pages is excellent and I use on my Macs as well as iPad... 8) Not sure why you wants detailed info, you've already decided it doesn't do things that it can... :roll:


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