iPad vs Touch vs iPhone: It’s All About the Connex Baby
This is by far the best write up I've seen on the iPad - and it's oh so true (read the whole post, seriously). Thank you NYT. What drives me a little nuts is that I can buy one of these and put it on AT&T for a month but not a Touch. It's essentially a larger version of the same device with a 3G connection. Jail broken - there are apps that let you dial out w... read more
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.
There’s no reason you couldn’t use it to make calls using Skype, of course — Apple says that virtually all of the existing 140,000 iPhone apps run fine on the iPad. (You can run them either at regular tiny size, or blown up double with some loss of clarity.)
Then again, you might look a little bizarre walking through the airport holding this giant clipboard up to your ear.
Now, though, it looks like Apple really has created something new. Criticisms of “Like a laptop” and “a big iPod Touch” don’t really do justice to the possibilities.
Read more at pogue.blogs.nytimes.com
