Re: iPad Complaints received so far:
anything said about sync capability between the ipad and your computer and your iphone? -bowerbird
They show syncing is permitted using a USB cable - which I don't understand if it has wifi ??? anything said about sync capability between the ipad and your computer and your iphone? -bowerbird
Specs are up at: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ which shows display resolution as being 132 dpi, which is more than a netbook, but less than the 150 to 166 dpi of an iPhone or a Kindle or an e-Ink display. One would need to check it out in person to make sure that one is happy with the resolution - some people don't seem to care at all about resolution, other people seem to be very sensitive to it. 10 watt charger is huge power compared to a Kindle, for those people who care about that aspect. They said it supported epub in the announcement, but its not in the specs, so maybe that is only with the iBooks reader app. It would be a bummer if iBooks is a tightly closed app like the nook reader!
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, James Adcock wrote:
Specs are up at:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
which shows display resolution as being 132 dpi,
which is more than a netbook,
I just looked up a couple of the Asus eee's, which I use, they ran from 133 dpi to 200 dpi The 200 dpi is the latest and greatest, and I'm not sure, if it really qualifies as a netbook [model 1601].
but less than the 150 to 166 dpi of an iPhone or a Kindle or an e-Ink display. One would need to check it out in person to make sure that one is happy with the resolution – some people don’t seem to care at all about resolution, other people seem to be very sensitive to it.
I find the resolution on my eee's to be just great, even when I double the strength of my reading glasses to watch something in detail.
10 watt charger is huge power compared to a Kindle, for those people who care about that aspect.
/what about when the battery dies?
They said it supported epub in the announcement, but its not in the specs, so maybe that is only with the iBooks reader app. It would be a bummer if iBooks is a tightly closed app like the nook reader!
I've already heard the DRM is VERY tight.
I've already heard the DRM is VERY tight.
Don't care much about the DRM as long as they offer a wifi approach to loading "personal" documents aka "public domain" or non-DRM. It would be a bummer if they claim "epub" but then it turns out they use a proprietary DRM for epub so there is no choice of where one can buy one's commercial epub books. Nook for example has a great wifi but you can't use it to load your personal documents onto the Nook -- you have to USB them. USB gets tiresome once you hook up your ebook reader for literally the 1000+ time. I am suspicious, as you suggest, that iPad will also have this restriction -- in that they already showed that one has to use USB to sync to your other Apple devices. Hopefully there can be or will be a third party competitor for the iBooks app.
Hi BB, iTunes. Am 27.01.2010 um 21:38 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
anything said about sync capability between the ipad and your computer and your iphone?
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