iPad

[Kenyth]

It can utilize VNC protocols and you can set up VPN.

This is exciting! Do you know what VPN types are available?

[Kenyth]

I got to play with one. For what it does, it's nice. Think of it as a big screen Iphone without the phone. It is great for web surfing, youtube, social network sites, etc.

Pros: It's very light and portable. The OS is very easy to work with since it was designed for a touchscreen device. Bluetooth built in.

Cons: No upgradability. No external interfaces except for the Itunes cable, so you can't use removable thumb drives. This kills it's potential as a portable multimedia device when combined with it's dinky memory capcity (16GB). No flash player software. This hampers it's usability for online multimedia and games. No camera for video chat. You have to pick either a cellular data plan, or regular wireless. You can't have both. I'm not sure if you can sync it with outlook or not. Since they are competitors, I'm guessing not.

This device has potential, but it's not yet a fully developed technology. If they could make these I-devices share a phone account and build in cameras for a video phone, they would really have something. As it stands, it's just an expensive toy, mostly for portable chat, internet surfing, and email. I get a feeling it will grow into a niche the tablet PC and PDA failed to meet, and that smart phones are too compact to take advantage of.

[BigMacFU]

I got to play with one. For what it does, it's nice. Think of it as a big screen Iphone without the phone. It is great for web surfing, youtube, social network sites, etc.

Pros: It's very light and portable. The OS is very easy to work with since it was designed for a touchscreen device. Bluetooth built in.

Cons: No upgradability. No external interfaces except for the Itunes cable, so you can't use removable thumb drives. This kills it's potential as a portable multimedia device when combined with it's dinky memory capcity (16GB). No flash player software. This hampers it's usability for online multimedia and games. No camera for video chat. You have to pick either a cellular data plan, or regular wireless. You can't have both. I'm not sure if you can sync it with outlook or not. Since they are competitors, I'm guessing not.

This device has potential, but it's not yet a fully developed technology. If they could make these I-devices share a phone account and build in cameras for a video phone, they would really have something. As it stands, it's just an expensive toy, mostly for portable chat, internet surfing, and email. I get a feeling it will grow into a niche the tablet PC and PDA failed to meet, and that smart phones are too compact to take advantage of.

The no memory upgradeability is a joke (why no micro sd or sdhc). As for exchange/outlook, ipad/iphone's have been compatible since iphone os 2.0 I believe.

[Mizicke5273]

I'm not too thrilled with tablets yet, now give something like Tony Stark has in Iron Man 2 in the court room. That I would be all over. I'm waiting to see what HP will bring to the table with their tablet and as well as Google before I decided if I even want/need/have a use for a tablet.

The idea is "sorta" cool at this point in time to me, but no where near enough to start thinking about buying one. Too many other things to buy first.