[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Jules]

It does have a speaker and a mic, and VOIP restrictions have been lifted 
from the SDK and the App Store.
So you will be able to make VOIP calls on it.

On 28/01/2010 11:17, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> Yes, I would have liked a Mac tablet.
>
> But I do fancy an iPad - I consider the iPhone a read-only device because of
> its size.
> I can see what the iPad hasn't got: USB port, microphone, camera to name a
> few.
> But I guess that those things can be done by bluetooth.
> But I don't want to carry a bunch of extra things around.
> Being able to use an iPhone as a bluetooth peripheral is an interesting one?
> Or a bluetooth headset with a camera in?
> Maybe with a little dock to usb to allow charging?
> Will be some interesting little peripherals.
>
> And the price is good - wonder what it will be in £.
> Hopefully not too different, as won't be locked in the US.
>
> On 28/01/2010 10:30, "Tim Chown"<tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:48:08AM +0000, m.c. schraefel wrote:
>>      
>>> i still miss the newton - or what might have been an iSlate, as in with pen.
>>>        
>> Hmm, I'd prefer some device midway between the iPad and the iPhone in
>> size, something that fits in a jacket pocket that just does what an iPhone
>> does but bigger.
>>
>> I can see a market for the iPad though, but not moved to buy one yet :)
>>
>> Tim
>>      
>
>    

Jules

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