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The new iPad |OT|
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Can you lock atomic browser as default? For example, if I open a web link in an e-mail, it'll go to atomic instead of safari.
Fucking loving the iPad. Took a lot of shit from my some of my android fanboy buddies, but it's their loss. I do miss widgets though. Much less so on a tablet than on a phone however, how weird is that?
Fucking loving the iPad. Took a lot of shit from my some of my android fanboy buddies, but it's their loss. I do miss widgets though. Much less so on a tablet than on a phone however, how weird is that?
That isn't true. You can have it on while charging. Are you trying to use a iPhone charger or something?
It depends on what he's doing while plugged. Even with the iPhone it was possible to drain the battery while playing an intensive game or multitasking an intensive program (say gps navigation) even while plugged in to a wall outlet. I've seen the new iPad drain slowly/not charge while I'm plugged into the wall and only browsing the web at the highest brightness setting.
And you aren't even using it? That makes no sense. I charged it while having it plugged in and browsing the web yesterday.
Diablohead
Member
My main use pc front USB ports can't charge my iPad at all, my mac mini USB ports can but only once I sign in on the mac, if it sleeps it's not powerful enough, and of course my included wall charger will juice it rather well if left alone.
It's a mixed bag.
brotkasten
Member
When I charged my iPad yesterday, I saw it going up from 5 to 6% while browsing.
But is it free? e: It is! Gonna try it.
But is it free? e: It is! Gonna try it.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
As with every device with it, turning Bluetooth off dramatically increases battery life. DO IT NOW!
it was off. The problem was the pin connector. Can I goto a apple store and ask for a new one?
yes. that should be replaceable.
Keylime
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Looks like Verizon LTE dominates AT&T 3G when it's outdoors. Great speeds and coverage the entire train ride...until we entered the tunnel to the city. The moment we're in the tunnel the service is lost entirely.
On AT&T the tunnel yields near flawless signal strength the entire time in, but is flakey before that.
Usually going to be reading on the train which doesn't require an internet connection, but it's good to know that there is a clear transition when I hit that tunnel. A little disappointed, but I believe it's a known thing that Verizon's building penetration wasn't as good as AT&Ts. Didn't know if that transferred over to the LTE side of things, but apparently it does.
Bleh!
So after extended use of the new iPad this weekend this is what I'd want from a 4th Gen revision:
-Reduced width and weight to the form factor
-Reduced heat during usage
-A6 chipset with a quad-core CPU (GPU is fine as is)
-Further improved cameras (in particular the facetime front facing camera)
-Magnet based dock connector ala the MacBooks
-As always more RAM
-Reduced width and weight to the form factor
-Reduced heat during usage
-A6 chipset with a quad-core CPU (GPU is fine as is)
-Further improved cameras (in particular the facetime front facing camera)
-Magnet based dock connector ala the MacBooks
-As always more RAM
doesn't it switch to AT&T in the tunnel?
You've got two devices, testing each LTE? That's interesting. Is it both iPads? Where are you testing? What kind of speed are you getting?
Vinterbird
Member
Add inductive charging and something insane only Apple would implement and I would be happy.
Keylime
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It can't switch to AT&T unless I put an AT&T SIM card in it, I believe. I have no intention of doing that unless I travel abroad or something.
This is an LTE iPad on Verizon vs. the standard 3G iPhone 4S on AT&T.
Entirely possible that AT&Ts LTE would crap out in the same situation (the tunnel), but the fallback to the 3G network would at least work. On my iPad, the device just outright lost service of any kind until I hit a station, gained it back, and lost it again when the train pushed through the tunnel to the next stop.
Can't confirm if AT&T LTE would do the same, but again...at least the fallback network I know would work (from my 4S experience).
Ah,ok. When you said 'Verizon lte dominates AT&T outdoors' I thought you meant a comparison of each LTE. It makes sense of course that the lte would dominate the 3G so I wasn't clear on that.
I think you should be fine if you wanna go in and buy one. Some models have less stock than others (guessing black 32gb wifi) but they had a crap load of stock to start with.
Just bought the smart cover. Just need something for the back now.
Other things they could add:
802.11AC
Up to 128 gigabytes of storage
Worldwide LTE support
NFC
Haptic feedback
Gorilla Glass 2
USB 3 and/or thunderbolt for faster transfer and charging through the port.
Liquid metal body
Faster touch detection like here: http://blog.laptopmag.com/microsoft-shows-off-a-truly-instantaneous-1-millisecond-tablet-touch-screen
1. Do you take the Hudson line in?
2. Can you report back in how well LTE does in your building? I'm on the 21st floor in midtown in a building next to Bryant Park. I get pathetic 3G (well, AT&T 4G) speeds in my building and am curious about your building penetration comment.
I'm getting .92 down and .09 up right now, and it's worse around lunch time. I worry even if people report 30 down in NYC I'd bet I would get 5 max.
Keylime
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"The city" in this case is Philly
How dare you use "the city" and not have it mean NYC! Haha.
About that dreaded Safari tab killing. Has anyone had it happen? I assume it does not if Safari is the only app being used, but what about when multitasking? Could I still return to Safari after some quick gaming, only to see every single tab wiped from memory?
iPad 2 seemed to go crazy with it sometimes. Would be great if you could just quickly load up some pages in Safari, go outside, and have relative peace of mind that the pages wouldn't suddenly evaporate.
iPad 2 seemed to go crazy with it sometimes. Would be great if you could just quickly load up some pages in Safari, go outside, and have relative peace of mind that the pages wouldn't suddenly evaporate.
FreeMufasa
Junior Member
What do you guys think of iPhoto and iMovie?
only have ipad 1 to compare with, but its much, much better. I don't remember a tab reloading while I was still in safari, and even task switching to another app and coming back later they were often still there (playing a big game or something would often mean they'd refresh though).
Even better, pressing 'back' often gave me an instant result so its even caching those as much as it can.
Not sure about iphoto. Journals are cute but I wish it wouldn't auto-move photos around when I'm trying to put one in a particular place. Needs a little more control. Hopefully that feature will come to the desktop anyway.
for retouching I'm not sure i see the point. The photos need to be on your ipad to do that - maybe using the built in camera or camera connector for quick tweaks before uploading? But I put all mine on computer first, and they don't get into iphoto until they've been catalogued and edited.
planar1280
Banned
what is the best note taking app on the iPad
Keylime
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I'm honestly not sure what to make of this iPad launch.
In my mind, either Apple had a crapload of supply this time around or demand was substantially lower...if TCooks is to be trusted, that means that supply must have been huge.
On launch day I was able to walk into a Best Buy after they'd been open for 2 hours already and got the exact iPad I wanted. There was a steady flow of people coming in to get theirs as well and it seemed like everyone was getting what they wanted.
Pre-orders probably kept line-waiters to a minimum, but it seems like even for folks who waited in line there was plenty to go around at your traditional points of sale.
Will be curious to see the actual sales numbers.
In my mind, either Apple had a crapload of supply this time around or demand was substantially lower...if TCooks is to be trusted, that means that supply must have been huge.
On launch day I was able to walk into a Best Buy after they'd been open for 2 hours already and got the exact iPad I wanted. There was a steady flow of people coming in to get theirs as well and it seemed like everyone was getting what they wanted.
Pre-orders probably kept line-waiters to a minimum, but it seems like even for folks who waited in line there was plenty to go around at your traditional points of sale.
Will be curious to see the actual sales numbers.
LyleLanley
Banned
Thank god for unlimited LTE on AT&T, I've already gone through 3GB. I don't even know how I did that.
Keylime
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planar1280
Banned
we need to remember T Cook is a supply chain guy.
I figured out what I did. I was using it to play music yesterday at a get together. There was no wifi and no music was stored locally yet, meaning it was downloading every song from iCloud over LTE.
I'll have to be careful about that.
LyleLanley
Banned
I see much throttling in your future...
Definitely, but this has been an extreme past couple of days since I was restoring from an iCloud backup mostly on 4G.
Edit:
Same as tobor, I too was downloading a ton of my playlists over LTE unintentionally.
Betta Lines
Member
Wow, my iPad hadn't been getting warm at all during browsing or youtube... but I just tried SpellTower and man... it's pretty damn warm.
razgriz417
Member
Anecdotal but I was told by an Apple Store employee that they received 1700 for launch day. I got my 16gb from fedex Friday afternoon and walked it around 5pm to exchange it for a 32gb with no wait or hassle at all. Tim Cook did make the comment that they had "record sales" this weekend but is not ready to give us a number. Having preorders definitely helped the lines this year too. I was planning on selling my spare iPad that'll arrive in a few days but it seems like supply is plentiful so back to Apple it goes lol
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I will say that it does take forever for this iPad to charge, even when not using it. My 2 would charge full in an hour, 2 at most. If I am using the new one at all while charging it may go up 1% every 30 minutes. Not using it, it took all night to charge.
It's understandable, but kind of sucks.
Other than that, no complaints.
It's understandable, but kind of sucks.
Other than that, no complaints.
I will say that it does take forever for this iPad to charge, even when not using it. My 2 would charge full in an hour, 2 at most. If I am using the new one at all while charging it may go up 1% every 30 minutes. Not using it, it took all night to charge.
It's understandable, but kind of sucks.
Other than that, no complaints.
Charging over USB or with the 10W wall adapter? Mine charges from 50% to 100% over the adapter in about 90min.
KennyLinder
Member
Been using iA Writer which is brilliant. A very clean and clutter-free interface, perfect for writing documents or scripts. Been writing my wedding speech on it!
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Wall adapter. It was just crawling yesterday.
Keyser Soze
Member
When you have more battery power than a normal laptop shoved into that small a space, that tends to happen
Crazymoogle
Member
802.11AC: pending low-power, portable friendly chipsets
Up to 128 gigabytes of storage: definitely
Worldwide LTE support: supporting every band has some hardware implications, not sure if possible yet
NFC: waiting for something to emerge, I imagine
Haptic feedback: If something was ready for primetime...
Gorilla Glass 2: seem to be using their own brand of it
USB 3 and/or thunderbolt for faster transfer and charging through the port: USB not happening, especially USB3. Thunderbolt seems unlikely due to power draw and PCI interface requirements
Liquid metal body: what does this gain?
Faster touch detection like here: Absolutely needed but no shippable tech! As the guy in the video says, 1ms is his target for the next decade, which is a little unfortunate because the video does a really, really great job of showing why we need latency fixed more than a high resolution screen. (The TF Prime claims 50ms, though)
I think Apple's top priority is still power draw, which will come before almost any tech option they consider adding. Improved power draw is the gateway towards returning to iPad 2 batteries and frames (lighter/smaller), inevitable CPU/GPU improvements, and even the basic tech we expect to see like 802.11AC. Everything else, whether it be haptic or Thunderbolt or whatever, really depends on what sort of component cost and power profile they are looking at. They can't really afford to run hotter or heavier.
Buckethead
Banned
With the cloud/streaming the last thing they're going to do is add more HD space.
Get used to it.
Get used to it.
Huge supply. The Hong Kong scalping market is dead because of the constant huge supply at both the primary Apple Store and Apple resellers.