Apple iPad - today's the day! Where did you get yours and initial impressions

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Master Geek

#355243 23-Jul-2010 09:52

lotech:
Stathi: Got mine when I was in the US, haven't had the need to use 3g but will start looking at what the plans are.

Dick Smith had Vodafone MicroSims in boxes ready to go I'm not sure if they were charging for them though.

At Harvey Norman when I purchased mine, they just handed me a Vodafone "Microsim for iPad" envelope with a $0.00 price sticker, so I don't expect DSE to be charging for them.

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#355251 23-Jul-2010 10:12

Two hours ago I told myself that I wasn't go to get sucked in getting one on release day. However when I set off for work I just couldn't help myself so picked up a 16gb 3G.

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#355254 23-Jul-2010 10:24

V: Went into Harvey Norman on Tory St. Real simple, in and out quickly. Can't wait to unbox this thing after class.

come on xpd, go buy 1, bring it round here, i am dying to try and get it to talk to media center and get rid the logitech edge keyboard. if I can do that I will definitely buy one

In fact if anyone knows of an app (for the ipad) that will work as a keyboard/mouse/remote for win7 over wifi or bluetooth, givus a headsup as that is the big selling point for me.

myndlyz

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#355258 23-Jul-2010 10:29

ahemphill99: Got mine in Aus and had the pleasure of using this thing for 3 or 4 weeks now - they are awesome for sitting on the couch, checking emails, facebook, twitter etc and some of the games are quite addictive.

Top 5 must have?apps for any new users:

1/. Angry Birds
2/. NZ Herald (best news app of the lot I think, better than BBC and NY Times)
3/. Flipboard
4/. MobileRSS HD
5/. Twitterific

Cheers
Andrew

Yeah i fully agree with you on that, its just so conveniant

As for the apps you mentioned, i have (1) (2) (3) and (5) and they are all excellent. The nz herald app is quite stunning, very good to look at

Stathi

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#355264 23-Jul-2010 10:41

V:
lotech:
Stathi: Got mine when I was in the US, haven't had the need to use 3g but will start looking at what the plans are.

Dick Smith had Vodafone MicroSims in boxes ready to go I'm not sure if they were charging for them though.

At Harvey Norman when I purchased mine, they just handed me a Vodafone "Microsim for iPad" envelope with a $0.00 price sticker, so I don't expect DSE to be charging for them.

Thx, I saw VF had them online for $0.00 as well, I'm looking at XT offerings for data before I decide.

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#355267 23-Jul-2010 10:55

nudge:
V: Went into Harvey Norman on Tory St. Real simple, in and out quickly. Can't wait to unbox this thing after class.

come on xpd, go buy 1, bring it round here, i am dying to try and get it to talk to media center and get rid the logitech edge keyboard. if I can do that I will definitely buy one

In fact if anyone knows of an app (for the ipad) that will work as a keyboard/mouse/remote for win7 over wifi or bluetooth, givus a headsup as that is the big selling point for me.

LOL, youre the one who usually beats me to new tech stuff

Im quite happy with my PS3 for now

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#355269 23-Jul-2010 11:00

Stathi:

Thx, I saw VF had them online for $0.00 as well, I'm looking at XT offerings for data before I decide.

Wouldn't it be a bit of a problem topping it up? Like it's a Microsim and you can't call on the iPad nor insert the Microsim into a normal phone without a adapter.
Unless if it's possible to do it online >.< - Which I just realized.

Where's my morning coffee!

Looking out the window and I see some toons at the DSE near us with iPads.

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#355271 23-Jul-2010 11:06

Hey on my iPad now on the bus it's awesome! Picked one up at dse in riccaton mall was in handout in 5min it was great! 3G 16gig for me

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#355273 23-Jul-2010 11:11

mysticnz: Hey on my iPad now on the bus it's awesome! Picked one up at dse in riccaton mall was in handout in 5min it was great! 3G 16gig for me

Wanna come show it off to me at Unleash? :)

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#355275 23-Jul-2010 11:15

What accessories have you guys bought for the iPad to protect it?

mattk

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#355276 23-Jul-2010 11:16

nudge:

In fact if anyone knows of an app (for the ipad) that will work as a keyboard/mouse/remote for win7 over wifi or bluetooth, givus a headsup as that is the big selling point for me.

Maybe this?

http://myallo.com/leptonic/software/airmote/

might need a bit of hack'n'slash but looks promising.

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#355290 23-Jul-2010 11:47

michaelmurfy:
Stathi:

Thx, I saw VF had them online for $0.00 as well, I'm looking at XT offerings for data before I decide.

Wouldn't it be a bit of a problem topping it up? Like it's a Microsim and you can't call on the iPad nor insert the Microsim into a normal phone without a adapter.
Unless if it's possible to do it online >.< - Which I just realized.

Where's my morning coffee!

Looking out the window and I see some toons at the DSE near us with iPads.

I don't think many people that have SIMs in their data devices switch them into phones to top them up, do you?

mattk

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Ultimate Geek

#355292 23-Jul-2010 11:49

Bit Sad...

just went to jbhifi Q st, there's 3 on demo there but none on wifi so it's just playing with the demo apps. Pretty cool to play with but disappointed there's none to try on the web.

I was really hoping it's trigger an impulse buy but I want to have a play with the web browser first.

The demo videos were pretty low res and looked a bit rubbish to be honest, artifacting and just plain blurry!

Photos were REALLY good, I like the new itunes and the iwork suite were all pretty trick but the web and video are the two things i really want it for.

(and geodefense)

Might save the $1200 and get an iphone4...

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#355315 23-Jul-2010 12:42

nudge:
V: Went into Harvey Norman on Tory St. Real simple, in and out quickly. Can't wait to unbox this thing after class.

come on xpd, go buy 1, bring it round here, i am dying to try and get it to talk to media center and get rid the logitech edge keyboard. if I can do that I will definitely buy one

In fact if anyone knows of an app (for the ipad) that will work as a keyboard/mouse/remote for win7 over wifi or bluetooth, givus a headsup as that is the big selling point for me.

You could try Touch Mouse

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#355317 23-Jul-2010 12:44

I wish I'd gone into harvey or noels to get one instead of waiting an hour at Magnum Mac for their POS system to start working. Guess that's what happens when you run Mac servers ;)

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