Re: Apple iPad 2
 

Here's a clip of the AMAZING Infinity Blade on the iPad 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejV8nFTaBA

It looks stunning!

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This rather understated feature of the iOS is a game changer.

It allows the host device (iPad) to stream the screen contents to another device (AppleTV):
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....-iosgaming.jpg
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/17/r...-ios-5-on-ipad (w/ video)

In this example, the game Real-Racing HD is being played wirelessly on the TV!

Wireless video streaming has so many neat implications and is one less cord to worry about. So long as there is a functioning WiFi connection (via LAN or AP), you can mirror the content of your tablet on an external screen. Huge.

This is not unlike VNC, but is obviously so much more efficient and requires extremely little setup. I would love to see this technology on other devices in an open form!

Thanks to the open VP8 codec and the pleathora of ARM based devices that can compress a large frame-buffer in realtime, this should be readily possible on a host of devices with a clean and simple API.


It would seem that the last cord to go will be power. With BT doing duty (albeit poorly in this man's opinion) for USB, WiFi replacing Ethernet, and now Wireless video being done very well in place of HDMI (albeit at lower resolutions), we are on the verge of true mobile devices!

Re: Apple iPad 2
 

I think someone did this already on the N900 with gstreamer but like you said, this is a neat plug and play package.

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Very interesting indeed! I would love to see more information on that.

It's certainly not a first, or space-aged for that matter, but seems remarkably well implemented.

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I wonder which device will keep most of its [resell] value by Feb 2012;
1) the iPad2 (lets say 32GB wifi) VS
2) the ASUS Transformer (lets say 16GB wifi + dock)

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Most likely the iPad. But what does that prove beyond the well known fact that the masses like things that don't make them think too much about what they don't understand and that are shiny, and that Apple is notoriously good at appealing to, fostering, and creating the blind impression of, such blind simplicity.

I.E. I am actually typing this on an acquaintances iPad2 - But I'm not particularly a fan of it. Even though I'm rather good at typing on its keyboard, I still find the interface annoying for rudimentary things like having good control over capitalization, the lack of a delete key as well as a backspace key, and the lack of a truly good cursor positioning system - it will not let you manually place the cursor in the middle of the word if you don't first long-press and then use that magnifying glass thing. And it likes assuming things for me - that when I'm long pressing here it presumes I want to select the entire HTML element and that when I'm long pressing slightly over there it assumes I want something entirely different - with no choice I have yet found to let me choose what I want to do.

I mean, on the N900 I have some frustrations likes this on the main browser, but this is so systematically ingrained into the iOS UI that I find the prospect of manually correcting a typo daunting - on the N900's stock browser with a little bit of practice I got very good at being able to get the cursor everywhere I want in a text input box. On the iStuff I have to perform annoying long-press and drag combos just to get the cursor in the middle of a word or to select text for copy/paste. Ewww, in other words.

Just because the masses are such that they want the iStuff features and ignore the crappy bits because it's what they've been taught to know doesn't mean that the thing is actually better. All resale value can tell you is demand - demand is only a heuristic for true worth, a heuristic that much be understood in context of sociology and psychology, and the current attitudes of the time.

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iPad, definitely.

a. More people know about it, bigger 2nd hand market.
b. It's perceived as a premium product (and brand), so those who couldn't afford it the first time around will be more willing to cough up the dough for the perceived prestige.
c. There are some cheap android tablets. Those will drag the price down for the 'more premium' android tablets.

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Coincidentally, my mom who is over 60 ordered me to get her an iPad2, specifically a white one, because she couldn't stand her oldmates showing off their iPad2 in front of her.

For no reason I felt dirty when I turn on this thing.... :o

BTW, yours is 16GB version right? I found 16GB is hardly enough for storing all the podcast movies/audio clips she needs. Darn it has no external flash slot. :(

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eeePad Transformer. I'm bored with the iPad2 the forth day I bought this thing already.

I haven't used the Transformer though, but from what I've heard its detachable keyboard is pretty good.

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This is potentially the single most annoying thing about the iPad2; it solidifies my impression of it being brilliant at consuming, mediocre at best at creating.

What I really liked about the iPad2 was using it as an ereader with plethora of newspaper/ebook apps; that is, until I purchased a Nook3.

I realize that each user has their preference, and the tablet market is not really for me; ereaders on otoh were really what I lacked in my mobile arsenal.