New toy on the market

[chronic]

This looks kind of cool, especially if you travel a lot.

So, who wants to buy one for me?

 

[mjp]

Is that the new Mac Kindle? ;)

 

[chronic]

More like an oversized iPhone.

 

[Short Bus]

I rag
I Tampon
I Pad
Go with the flowww

 

[Bukfan]

The kids have mixed feelings about it because it does'nt even have video phone calls which should've been standard equipment.

 

[nervas]

I was excited about the announcement of this. However after watching the keynote, and reading a couple of articles.... What really is the difference between this and an iPhone, or iPod Touch? Plus for $499.00 you only get 16gb?

 

[ROC]

The difference is real estate.

You simply cannot execute the functions on an iPhone screen that you can on this.

Besides, this is a computer rather than a phone.

 

[LickTheStar]

Not quite a computer as the whole thing is locked up like the iPhone is... But there's hacking, after all...

 

[ROC]

I'm not sure what you mean by locked up.

You mean like Macs generally?

From a New York Times article;

"The cellular signal will be provided by AT&T for $15 a month (250 megabytes of data transferred -- think e-mail only) or $30 a month, unlimited. Amazingly, those AT&T deals involve no contract. You can cancel whenever you like. And since this thing isn't a phone, you don't have to worry about dropped calls; you're paying exclusively for Internet service."

 

[Erik]

Looks interesting, but doubt I will read books on a screen like this.
Newspapers & magazines, maybe, but not books.
Have to see it first to be sure though.
Newspapers, magazines, internet & e-mail is enough for me though.
And I think that people who don't already have an iPhone might go for this.

Looks interesting for use in schools though. The non-multitasking aspect would actually be a plus there! No surfing on Facebook in the background on IpAD... ;-)

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I rag
I Tampon
I Pad
Go with the flowww

Good ol' Jimmy Snerp has the thinking cap on. That's the iFlow.