<p>OK all you technophiles and iGeeks, what do you think? Will this gizmo find its niche with people like me? That is, people who can’t/won’t get an iPhone, want to browse on something light (but large enough to read), and can’t decide between kindle or nook?</p>
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<p>I plan on getting one for the coffee table in the living room. It comes in both Wifi and 3g models - I’d just go for the WiFi model. The decision is 16 or 32 GB. I think that we’d just use it for casual browsing or maybe even watching a movie or television show. It does a whole lot more but just the basics would be fine. I could see my wife taking this thing for use in the kitchen.</p>
<p>Sign me up… I travel a great deal and can see this as a way to entertain myself on long airplane rides. In fact, with the iWork support, I could leave the laptop at home.</p>
<p>I have to admit, the extra monthly charge is hard for me to swallow. I am sometimes appalled at what we spend per month to communicate - internet, phone plans, etc. </p>
<p>That said, I want one. I love, love, love my kindle, but this is so cool. I think it might be a great graduation gift for DD next year or an xmas gift for DH who is our resident geek.</p>
<p>The wifi model doesn’t come with monthly charges, right?</p>
<p>For $499, I can use it as a laptop, right?</p>
<p>Plus…it will have Kindle like capabilities?</p>
<p>Looks incredible.</p>
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<p>Some of you guys need to get one, play with it a while, and report back.</p>
<p>For those of us with iPhones, I don’t see much difference between that and the iPhone, except for size. Granted the size gives you a lot - esp reading books (I use the Kindle app on the iPhone - a bit small, but not too bad) and watching videos, but I don’t see a lot yet. Now, if it ran OS-X applications, THEN you’d really have something!!!</p>
<p>It appears to be the same device - only bigger. There is a really beautiful case that you can buy for it and you can hook it up to a keyboard for lots of typing.</p>
<p>It uses Apple’s own processor and OS X only runs on Intel chips right now (yeah, Power PC chips marginally). I would prefer OS X myself but it is obviously much cheaper for Apple to use the iPhone OS.</p>
<p>These won’t be shipping for 60 days so it will be a while before they show up in our hands.</p>
<p>Of course I want one-NOW!</p>
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<li>It seems to be a very good e-book reader. At least as good as the Kindle, possibly better. Certainly shows more text per page.</li>
<li>Excellent gaming machine. Runs all iphone games now - just small - and those will all now be rewritten to be larger. The framerates are supposedly very good though the res can’t be up to desktop standards when blown up. Games will be very big.</li>
<li>Someone will offer a mic/headphone combo so you can use skype or whatever to make calls.</li>
<li>It seems to be a really good size, not too big but big enough. Something you can actually sit with and use while sitting in a chair.</li>
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<p>I haven’t seen much of it, but what I’ve seen the screen is like the iPhone or laptop screen, not the soft non-glare of the Kindle, and you don’t have a built-in keyboard for adding notes, like the Kindle. If it’s just a bigger iPhone, I’ll stick to my Kindle. Particularly for the price difference.</p>
<p>It’d be great on construction sites. It’s cheap enough that I’d be able to load all my PDF’d building plans onto it and take it out onto a muddy site to do construction administration.</p>
<p>We’ve all been waiting for something like this… A reliable tablet computer that’s not full-sized, that’s a reasonable price, that could work as a good fieldwork companion.</p>
<p>Oh Weee, a humongous iPoT, and at the same price as my old iPoT… ■■■ T_T</p>
<p>The price is GREAT if it’s equal to a tablet PC ( can run big programs, ect), but if its “just” for entertainment, I’ll stick with the tablet I have.</p>
<p>What’s with the name? Sounds like a feminine sanitary item.</p>
<p>^ROFL. Thought it was called iTablet ?</p>
<p>MOfWC - rofl! My hubby’s first reaction to the name, “why not an iTampon?” (I am typing this on my iPhone :))</p>
<p>Just saw Mad TV on youtube. Ipad indeed.</p>
<p>The initial iPad is little more than an cumbersome iPhone.</p>
<p>I am on my computer right now but I spend less and less time on it. I use my iphone to get email, write emails, check cc (which has a beautiful iphone app, by the way) surf,and many other things. I don’t have to sit in a chair at a desk with a keyboard. I will get the new ipad, and read books and whatever with it and do all the other things as well with my hands touching the screen. Movies play very well on my iphone so I imagine with the larger screen it will be a good user experience. If you have wifi at home, you won’t need any monthly plans.</p>