Looking at this device I just cant seem to figure out where the hell I would use it.
If you say its great as a couch tablet kinda thing that you can quickly jump into, I would say there is the iPod touch for that. Not only is it half the price, double the storage and can do locally stored music, videos and play games etc. Or better yet wait a few months untill chrome OS comes along on some sub 300$ netbooks with the ARM architecture
You say its better than a netbook because it can do 1080p, I would say that by the time this device ships and is out of the gate CES would have unleashed a can of whoop ass on the device with netbooks with ION and the Atom N450 which can do 720p atleast and within the next 6 months or so there will be hardware accelerated Flash which adobe has said its working on already and not to mention netbooks are cheaper by about a 100$
Also the battery life on most notebooks is about 7 hours real world usage and these guys are saying 5 hours theoretical.
And how am I am suppose to use it? Keep it on my lap and watch the viewing angle go to oblivion or hold it with one hand and barely manage to manipulate the OS with the other. What am I suppose to do when I dont have access to wifi and just want to use the device as a media tablet to play music and videos off a thumb drive, can i do that?
Guys who want it I am sure you have thought about these things and I want your views on it.
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To the users who want it. Whats you're use case for it?
I imagine that most of the people who want it aren't planning on buying it for $499.
Yeah. ~$500 is way too much for what this does. It accomplishes the same things an iPod touch or iPhone at home can do: connect to the Internet. Only, it has a bigger screen. That in itself is nice, but I'm not sure I want to pay all that money for another device that simply duplicates the functionality of another device I have.
I want one, yes, but the politics surrounding it and the price point are both huge turnoffs. I hope Mike Arrington finally gets his CrunchPad.
I want to use it to read documents. Academics have lots of pdfs they print out and drag around, I need a good document viewer. I'm tempted to get a KindleDX for this, but its too expensive for such a dedicated device (no color, web browsing, video, etc). The JooJoo might be what I need.
The iPad might work too, but at the same price, the JooJoo looks better to me.
The iPad might work too, but at the same price, the JooJoo looks better to me.
Price is too high, i like the iPad better. I would get the iPad for heavier stuff, and the joojoo for browsing, but $499 is too much
i mean $499 is too high for the joojoo, $499 for the iPad is good
First off, the ipad doesn't do 1080p. It's will play 720p on the device and output up to tv at 576p. Second, battery is 10 hours of usage or 1 month on standby. OK, now my reason; it's simple, casual entertainment. At home my iPhone is too small and my laptop is too confining for laid back stuff.
Internet tablet - bigger screen, higher resolution, better processor, and Flash make for a better, richer, and more complete internet experience than the iPod Touch or the iPad.
HD media player - better than any device out there, this thing can play HD and it has the proper aspect ratio for the best experience. When you are watching a tv show from hulu for example, there will be no annoying back-lit bars around the content.
HD media player - better than any device out there, this thing can play HD and it has the proper aspect ratio for the best experience. When you are watching a tv show from hulu for example, there will be no annoying back-lit bars around the content.
assuming it ever launches, it will be the best internet reader/PDF reader/media tablet that nobody has...
as long as it lives up to its specs sheet...
I have no doubt the iPad will do everything they said, not that that is very much...
as long as it lives up to its specs sheet...
I have no doubt the iPad will do everything they said, not that that is very much...
Just like the ipad, it will be a consumption device. I would go for this over the ipad provided I can get the sites I want on it and not have to use itunes to somehow load information to it. $500 is a bit much for a device like this though, you can buy quite the netbook for this price and the newer processors coming out on those will hopefully improve video playback (not to mention that most $500 netbooks can and do have both wireless and some form of cel connectivity). So I think it really comes down to choice of the device layout, tablet or netbook - for now, I will wait for the next round of netbooks.
