http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Well as much as I hate this whole hoopla over the iPad and iPhone I have to agree with them right now. iPad is the only tablet out on the market as of tomorrow, so that automatically gives it the first and last place. I, also, do believe that when other tablets start coming out they will be much better just for the fact that once you go multitasking you can never go back.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/AHHH the great engadget comment system .... the comment to which i was replaying to was removed faster than i was able to type out my response. ]]>Apr 2nd 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
No, but the media is already trying to "move the language" in order to say just that.

IPad like - Any tablet made in the past 10 years would fit that

iPad format - whatever that means

iPad clones - again, meaningless phrase seeing that Apple didn't invent the things.

Since they've ignored these devices for years, only to now pretend like they've loved the for-factor all along, it isnt surprising how many people will believe that they didnt exist before now.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
Um, no.

They put forward the advertising dollars and had the luxury of a media willing to shill their product from rumor to release stage.

There was no interest in tablets until you had a machine to tell us there was.

From what I hear as the reason why these folks want one, I can clearly see they have never actually even seen a tablet before, and have NO idea how different reality is from what they have been sold on.

Because let's face it. None of these pre-order people have even touched this thing outside their imaginations.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/For people interesed in Computer history:
Read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
"The Dynabook concept was created by Alan Kay in 1968, two years before the founding of Xerox PARC. Kay wanted to make “A Personal Computer For Children Of All Ages.” The ideas led to the development of the Xerox Alto prototype, which was originally called “the interim Dynabook”.[1][2] It embodied all the elements of a graphical user interface, or GUI, as early as 1972. The software component of this research was Smalltalk, which went on to have a life of its own independent of the Dynabook concept.
The Dynabook concept described what is now known as a laptop computer or, (in some of its other incarnations) a tablet PC or slate computer with nearly eternal battery life and software aimed at giving children access to digital media. Adults could also use a Dynabook, but the target audience was children."
]]>Apr 2nd 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
You and LAY are going to share the prize for "I still don't get why the iPad is going to sell into the millions even though it's excruciatingly obvious" award.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
Did you mean, "Which tablets are running a mobile phone OS instead of a real OS?"

As for capacitive ... it's not what everyone wants. I'll bet anything that the Courier will be resistive. Simple reason is that resistive is more precise. Depending on how you are using your device one screen tech is better than another.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
Dynabook is great research and concept. However it does not mention network because Kay did not know internet will be huge like now.

I would say there is huge involvement of Media. Old Media wanna go back to the time when they had iron-fist, they think apple will be answer.

anyway I like apple product, just i don't like App store system. Think about You can download iPad app from anywhere(without Apple's control) it will be real fun]]>Apr 2nd 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/You're forgetting the iPod Touch XL aka iPad had leverage of yrs to get where it's at. And that's thanks to fanboys who buy whatever they're shown. That's how the app store came about.
http://i.imgur.com/uzLKA.jpg]]>Apr 2nd 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
1.) I prefer capacitive (not saying they are the best I just personally like them).
2.) The OP said that the iPad wasn't the first capacitive tablet based PC out there and I genuinely wanted to learn more about the others because that's what I'm interested in.

It's sad when someone really wants to be objective but is somehow a target because he doesn't carry the same misplaced hatred toward one particular product as everyone else. :(
Also not sure if you knew this (you probably didn't because hate doesn't need facts to be passionate) but the iPad's OS is a TABLET OS, not the run of the mill installation of the iPhone OS... The core visual elements (colors, side scrolling hierarchal menu systems, vertical kinetic scrolling etc..) but there are many UI and design elements on the iPad that ARE NOT on the iPhone such as the pop over menus and stacked layouts etc... Thusly the iPad doesn't run a phone OS. It runs an OS designed for 'slate' devices that was first tested out on smaller devices that just happened to be phones. Now back to my original question because I really do want to look these devices up so I can see if they are something I'm interested in...]]>Apr 2nd 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
You Apple haters have really gone off the rails. What an epic fail you represent. Might as well get out of the tech and gadget business, because I've touched the future, and it has an Apple logo on it.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 3rd 2010 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
Man, that HP Slate and Microsoft Courier both look extremely compelling. I agree with Engdaget, in that I really hope that Microsoft is planning on actually releasing the Courier to market. I'm going to be even just a little bit sad if the whole thing turns out to be vaporware from the get-go... ]]>Apr 2nd 2010 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
Before I got my iPad I already downloaded 25 free applications that look outrageous. Think about 25 free applications built for the device!

So many games available and I would say 95% of the < $1.99 games are way better than any flash game in the market. More visually stimulating, and just better overall when taking the whole experience into account.

Flash bites. I hate it on my PC, on my Mac and I am happy that it will die in his current form. I blame it on Adobe because the reality is that they got full of themselves and didn't improve the performance of the product until Apple put a gun to their head. Oh an 10.1 still doesn't play Hulu perfectly on the Ion platform even when using a dual core atom.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
I like HP's offerings most from the alternatives. Even if the HP Slate turns out to be vaporware, the Mini 311 is a good buy. It's a bit slow CPU-wise but the 9400M in it is awesome and will support a 360 controller.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
Both Engadget and Gizmodo are looking more and more like advertising divisions of Apple, Think I'll leave the tech blogs alone till after Easter when hopefully they have all calmed down.
Jesus is busy telling the world the iPad is the future of computing over on Giz, instead of riding on the back of a donkey ! what is the world coming too.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
If I have a tablet the surfs the web, I want to be able to look at any and every page that pops into my mind. And the only reason you can't do that on the iPad is that Steve Jobs says no. Why does he say no? Maybe to keep his iron grip on the content that can be bought and used on the device.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/I think Engadget has been pretty restrained the last few days which reflects the differing levels of enthusiasm the editors have for the iPad. Now Gizmodo is something else. Completely out of control, mindless padophile (TM) froth. Embarrassing. Whatever credibility they had has gone.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/I have the windows 7 2gb full ion mini 311, and I can play left 4 dead 1 and 2 on low settings pretty well, plus I have 250 gb of storage. I wish it was convertible to table for easier reading of comics and my RPG pdf's, but I guess you cannot have everything.
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Like I said earlier If HP could get something like the HP TouchSmart tx2 down in price to $600 or lower with a proper tailored GUI. Then it would kill the competition. It has great performance, a "internal" DVD burner, with a touchscreen to boot.

Laptop
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4824084&CatId=1900

+

Winmo 7 UI tailored to a Tablet PC
http://www.programmerfish.com/transform-windows-7-xp-vista-into-windows-phone-7/

=

Heaven... You'll have a fully functional Laptop but, when you want to use the touchscreen functionality it's right there with an alternative GUI that you can use or you can go back to normal window at the hit of a button...]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
And why hasn't he been banned yet, if I may ask? I mean if you know he is just trolling on every post on engadget?]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
Hmm.. and yet everyone (reviewers) who's actually spent time with the device is madly in love with it... Wow.. I don't know who to believe...hrmm]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Thanks Joanna for the best engadget article of this week.
Just dont forget the Neofonie WePad
http://www.wepad.mobi/
11.6-inch (1366 x 768) display, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, GMA 3150 graphics, webcam, two USB ports, flash card reader, UMTS modem, and six hours of battery life.]]>Apr 2nd 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
A post with ALTERNATIVE products along with a list of reasons those devices are BETTER is not a good advert...]]>Apr 2nd 2010 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
Thank you Joanna, great article!]]>Apr 2nd 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
... that beautiful, sexy screen.

And no, I haven't seen it. I'm talking out of my at-sign-dollar-sign-dollar-sign here. But all things being equal matte/glossy-wise, I'd take a 1024x768 IPS screen over a 1366x768 TN screen any day of the week. Yes, I know the smaller screen won't be able to play 720p content without downscaling it. And sure, given a choice, I'd take a 1280x800 IPS display over anything else in a tablet (yes, over 1366x768), but seriously: sometimes it's not about the pixel count.

When you're, say, reading a book, you don't always hold it so that it's directly perpendicular to your line of site. With a TN display, viewing angle can make a big difference. With an IPS display, it won't. You can rotate it from landscape to portrait, look at it from a 45 degree angle, and the viewability will remain uncompromised. ]]>Apr 2nd 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/yeah, its weird how the fans they invited to their press conference liked it...
and the people who sat in the cold in a massive que like it too...

its foolish, of course apple fans are going to like it...

Either way, HP slate, i feel some lovin comin your way!!

or the dell mini5, that thing looks delicious.... :P]]>Apr 2nd 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/
am i the only geek who doesn't play flash games? guess thats why flash isn't so much of a required checklist item on a device for me.

the good thing about the iPad is that it will drive HTML5 standards :)]]>Apr 2nd 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://bit.ly/tablet-by-google-video]]>Apr 2nd 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/If you think Engadget is as bad as Gizmodo, then you havent been on Gizmodo. I swear Gizmodo is just a domian forward for TUAW. Just look at their top 5 posts or even scroll down their first page. ]]>Apr 2nd 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/02/ipass-the-best-present-and-future-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipa/Apr 2nd 2010 2:44PM