http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/ Engadget Comments for WePad comes out of tablet hiding, reveals its €450 price and August availability 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/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
In other words, it doesn't treat me as if I'm a child.

Jeff Jarvis said he was traveling to see this device in person, so I will be watching his blog.]]>Apr 12th 2010 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/The user interface surely looks good, but they are like re-inventing the wheel on this, why not using Android?. I think with the netbook Atom processor using a variant of Linux Desktop can be needing much RAM. On the other hand there is the forthcoming Notion Ink Adam, with better specs (NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor and Android OS).
Nice Try from WePad, I like them, but my money is waiting for something like ADAM, or ICD Gemini.]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://bit.ly/wepad-tablet-impressions]]>Apr 13th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
And that the price drops a bit.]]>Apr 12th 2010 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
You're stuck with landscape on a laptop/netbook thanks to that keyboard - they don't make e-readers in landscape. Books aren't in landscape either. Portrait is a better orientation to read - with tablets you have the choice, which makes them a great reader AND portrait is a significantly better way to read a the majority of web pages. That's right - you don't like the orientation of the screen? Just turn it 90 degrees. Do that with your laptop, report back with pictures of you looking decidedly awkward.

While you're feeling a little stupid about not realising that aspect of the tablet form why don't you sketch me a picture... with the trackpad. Unless you're part of 2% of the population it's going to look like crap and even then it's going to take a lot of time to produce anything decent, however a lot of people can probably draw a lot better with their fingers on a flat surface.

Lets make some music in real-time! Fire up that piano app on your keyboard... oh wait. OK how about a DJ app with two turntables... oh wait. Kinda awkward with that screen sticking straight up and not having multi-touch.

Let's not go into the types of games/apps that will/can make use of an accelerometer, and the fact that a tablet will generally be half the size and weight without sacrificing screen size (compared to a netbook anyway). And a nice, light-weight mobile OS makes things simple and stable. And I assume the extra portability means they'll generally have GPS chips as well which opens up another set of capabilities...

A portable, lightweight, location/orientation aware device with a large multi-touch screen is an entirely different beast, don't be daft. I stand by my comparison. They're both vehicles but an entirely different ride.]]>Apr 13th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 14th 2010 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
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just saying...]]>Apr 12th 2010 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Sorry, It's not the product. my bad]]>Apr 12th 2010 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
I don't know, I think I'd rather have an Android tablet with the Market for apps. I don't want a tablet to be another PC only without a keyboard. I want it to be something different. ]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Down-rank him into oblivion we must.]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
I think its fairly obvious that Android will eventually over take and fully surpass the iPhone OS for the exact same reason why Microsoft easily surpasses Apple right now in desktop OSes: The OS is made available for a huge number of manufacturers and platforms. For anyone to think otherwise is simply just being short-sighted. They are the same people that thought Apple would rule the desktop computer world back when the Apple II came out.]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
I don't think that this is obvious at all. Androis already suffers heavy version splitting in the Market. This is anything but a monolithic OS like Windows, it's rather a zoo of different devices and opeating systems and extensions that much closer resembles Linux.]]>Apr 13th 2010 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
This tablet is in German and I only speak español, English and français.

How am I supposed to use it?

HOW!!!!!

]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/I am sure they will have an option to select your language (as many if not almost all Linux OS versions I have tried have that option)
Spanish is my native language, I learnt English as a second language, Portuguese is easy to understand as Italian.
Saludos]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
And I await your realization that blindly following any one companies like Apple does not benefit *you* as a consumer. While cribbed environments might be just right for *you,* some of us actually know how to use computers and don't need to be saved from ourselves.]]>Apr 13th 2010 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
www.bit.ly/aTsyiK (scroll down to 3. pic)

Interestingly the guy quickly stopped the demonstration and vanished as he realized that everybody could see the Windows error pop up (video below).
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I'm sorry, are you under the impression that it only takes about a week to make a device like this start to finish?]]>Apr 12th 2010 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 12th 2010 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/
Pathetic.]]>Apr 12th 2010 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/wepad-comes-out-of-tablet-hiding-reveals-its-450-price-and-aug/Apr 13th 2010 1:06AM