grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Not long before we find out now. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Excitement builds. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 Destined to be called iPad HD? Wonder how they will release it? A week later? Overseas? Pre-orders? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 This time tomorrow all will have been revealed! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 This is interesting: A super-tactile touchscreen capable of delivering virtual textures, bumps and more to your fingertips has been tipped for the iPad 3/iPad HD, with haptics specialist Senseg dropping heavy hints that its innovative tech is featured in the third-gen iOS slate. Although Apple has been tight-lipped about today’s iPad event – beyond its “We have something you really have to see. And touch” tagline for the presentation - Senseg pointedly told Pocket-lint that it “won’t be making any statements until after Apple’s announcement” when asked if its system had been added to the tablet. It’s perhaps tenuous, until you consider that Senseg has previously dropped some heavy-handed indications that it has been in discussions with Apple. Back in June 2011, the company told Trusted Reviews that it was “currently working with a certain tablet maker based in Cupertino” though couldn’t be pressed for any more information, and when asked directly this week whether Apple is a customer, Senseg would make no comment. Still, the tactile tech would be a great way for Apple to differentiate the iPad from its Android rivals, most of which provide some degree of vague physical buzz when tapped, but nothing more precise. Senseg, though, promises to create “Feel Screens” that can feel like silk, rock, or anything else. The system uses a special charge driver – which Senseg calls a “Tixel” – that can create differing degrees of attractive force to the skin of a user’s finger. Developers can precisely map the artificially created texture sensations wherever they choose in their app. Apple’s challenge with Senseg technology, if indeed it’s included in the third-gen iPad, will be convincing people just how special the system is. As the event tagline itself admits, you really have to “touch” the new haptic-textures in order to see the benefit. Nonetheless, getting curious shoppers in through the door has note been a problem Apple faced for several years now, and the iPad HD is likely to have other, more immediately graspable improvements – such as the well-rumored Retina Display – that will grab attention. We’ll know for sure later on today. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Ipad porn sites. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Ordered, to arrive on March 16th Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 The personal hotspots looks like a well worth it feature. Will it be lte or wimax in Japan though for the 4g network? Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 Not ordering as yet but really looking forward to seeing that screen. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Wifi for me Man, don't need crappy sotfbank. Great that it'll be in my hands a week tomorrow. Just watched the event. Tim Cook just doesn't have the same charisma as Jobs hey. Hardly surprising really a tough act to follow. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Wifi for me Man, don't need crappy sotfbank. Guess so - if it comes out on AU then I am tempted to buy one, the screen improvement would be great for kanji study. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 For me, my ipad 90% of the time is in my home. And I have my phone if I really need to be connected outside. Not sure I would get it even if it was on AU or Docomo. Possibly in the future. For now though the updated Apple store still has just Softbank. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 He comes across as kind of creepy to me. Is that a bit of a 'southern drawl' there in his voice? The guy who introduced the main ipad bit was more interesting and natural. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Is it quad core or not? I have read different things. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I think the CPU is dual-core but the graphics something-or-other is quad core. Don't really know what either means, so doesn't make much difference to me as long as it's all silky smooth. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 So it's not iPad 3 or iPad HD then, but 'the new iPad'? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Is it quad core or not? I have read different things. Dual core processor, and a quad-core graphics processor. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 That's it. (Do you know what it means?) Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 That's it. (Do you know what it means?) Yep, rather than having one processor doing all the work, two processors are sharing the work load and are more effective and as such, the machine is faster. Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 4 is bigger than 2, gg. Clever me, hey? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Not quite up to the hype by the sounds, but the iPad is a nice to have thing, rather than an essential thing, and the screen will make it even nicer. Its hard to see any other difference. Dragon Dictate is already pretty much flawless on Ipad 1, so that's not a big deal. You can have Siri, but you'll have to jailbreak to get it. In terms of usability, the door is wide open for someone to produce a more featured tablet running Windows or even just Android. Something with an accessible file system that can browse locally shared folders at proper speed, not the turtle pace of apps like Filebrowser on iOS. The folder you put your photos in, the folder you put your tunes in, the folder you put any telly or movies you acquire in, etc. etc. Its pretty crap to make folk sync or have to additionally share what may be very personal stuff in the cloud. What size did you get GG? Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 I just wanted that screen basically, I think that it is a major update - certainly more so than 1 > 2 - and hopefully will think that even more so when I get it. Went for the 64 this time as I don't think it's expensive, my 32 is pretty full and I now know these things re-sell. Considering I use it a few hours a day, I put the ipad in the 'essential' category. Or perhaps an essential luxury? I agree with you on the folders thing, but apart from that as I have said before I think Android is nowhere near iOS in so many other ways and it's fragmentation seems to be it's own worst enemy. Apart from iOS of course. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Actually one other thing I was hoping for - decent speakers. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 The essential or not is up to how you spend your leisure time. It does some things very well indeed. Browsing, casual gaming, newspapers, IMDB, etc. For movies and other video, a bigger screen like a tv will beat it easily. For books, I suspect e-ink is going to be much better for your eyes. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Didn't intend to wake up at 4am, but somehow I did - and then was busy reading and ordering. Result - feeling knackered this afternoon. Need my beauty sleep. Link to post Share on other sites
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