The iPad. Who names these things?

No camera is definitely a disappoint.   

Brad,

This product is completely different from the Kindle. The Kindle is for one purpose only.. reading books. It lasts WEEKS on one charge and the screen is not backlit, so it's no harder on your eyes then a regular book.

The iPad (yes.. horrible name) will last at most 10 hours, most likely less in real-world use. LCD screens are not ideal for long bouts of reading. It's just a whole different category.

I definitely won't be buying one. There are plenty of other slates on the market that can do so much more then this device can. It's the price of a computer for the functionality of a large ipod.

Some adult males it seems just can not get over having the newest toy out on the market.

That being said I can though understand the need for you two to be able to evaluate new technology.

Is it just me or has Apple just gone and dropped the iPhone in ther magical "make things bigger" machine? One of the artists impressions before release kinda had my interested, but, along with lacklustre feature set (over the iPhone anyway) and its form, looks like i'll be passing on this one.

Plus Apple are bound to wait many months till they release in Australia, and if true to form will over charge greatly....

(if only it had looked more like this...especially the UI. More mac, less iphone)

Some kind of pad for women?

no worries, im sure next version will have a cam with the price tag unfortunatley....... im not into all this ipod stuff....not needed......thank god........

meh - make ipod touch bigger.  Greatest invention of all time.  Magazines become obsolete.  Next year they invent a version with a processor that runs 500mhz faster.  "Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. Fade to black."

This isnt the first time weve dealt with a big build up from Apple. Only to be let down, but still sold on all these vague references to usage of this new overpriced toy. Like someone said before, your paying the price of a computer for nothing more then an oversized iphone. (which was outrageously priced when they first came out as well)

I currently own a Kindle and it is still the best e-reader out there, and lasting for 2 weeks on 1 charge cant beat that with a stick,also as stated above, its for reading books, thats it, i tell friends and family when they ask about it, why doesnt it light up they ask, i said because it is a book, does your paperback light up?? the best part is i never lose my place, and the books are so much cheaper, as a huge reader this is a bonus for me and will recoup my initial cost for the Kindle very soon

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

William Shakespeare

Didn't they call those little handheld thingamajigs on Star Trek pads?

I'll wait until they make one with a transporter

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/PADD

A PADD and stylus of the 2260s	PADD displaying predictive text	Red PADD showing image reconstruction
A PADD displaying arboretum plans	A stylus being used on a PADD

The main draw for me to the kindle is the e.ink. I doubt the kindle is going away. The iPad is a jack of all trades but can't compete with a specilized device like the kindle, nook, or sony e.reader.

Having a kindle, I have to say it is light and the eInk is just like reading a book. For novels and so on I think Kindle is still the best. I do hope however, that Amazon will now ease up on their DRM and perhaps switch to an ePUB format so their books can be read on either device.

The iPAD could be interesting if Comic Books are added as a medium (there is alot of speculation that this is already planned in the near future).

BTW, I do not think the Kindle  versus iPAD is Amazon's concern but rather the fact that books would be sold on ITunes therefore cutting into amazon's main retail business.

Froggy - talk sense.  Sure, some excited folk will marvel at the "wow its a ipod touch but bigger" factor, but they really didn't due squat other than engineer a device with 10 hours of battery power (reported by them).  The battery power is impressive IMO for what it does, but my little treo 700wx is a cellphone with unlimited calls and internet for $30 a month... this is a device you can't make calls on without modding for $30 a month.  If this kills kindle, I will eat a shoe.  

Wizard,

I logged in to the forums with the express purpose of giving you karma for that well-timed comment!  

the Monk

Chuck could.

The iPad...I heard it runs Windows every 28 days...

wonder if the iPad has wings?

Chuck Norris runs 7 on his Etch-a-Sketch and his dial phone.

Although I own an iPhone and I love it in terms of usibility, there is one thing that really gets me up everytime and that will be the same for this oversized version of the iPhone : NO multitasking. That is a no-go even more for a bigger device.

iDiots?

Lol I have hear that it has been called iPod touch on steriods

Lol if you search the app store that is already an app called iPeriod which keeps track of women's period (don't know how I even know this)

Who names think think about it, its apple basically their phlisophy on naming things is based on two steps:

1. What does it do? or its main feature?
2. Slap an "i" before it

Nice...very nice.