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Thursday, April 8th, 2010One of the big selling points of the iPad is that it doesn’t have a keyboard. All input can be entered through the touchscreen, and when the device is turned to portrait orientation it can provide a nearly full-size keyboard across the lower half of the screen. But that’s still typing on glass, lacking the [...]
iPad Shows That a Big iPod Touch is Actually Pretty Cool
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010It’s an interesting thing to watch a new device completely polarize the tech and gadget community well before anyone has gotten their hands on it. Apple’s new iPad did exactly this as soon as it was officially announced in January. Mostly, people cried out about what the iPad doesn’t have: Multi-tasking, a camera, and support [...]
Apple iPad is a Touch/Kindle DX Mashup
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010It’s probably predictably human to compare a new device to attributes of existing ones we know well. As Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPad to the world, my thought was that I was looking at a fairly compelling blend of an iPod Touch and a Kindle DX.
If you’ve ever held the larger version of Amazon’s [...]
Boogie Board Gives You an Electronic Scratch Pad
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Maybe one thing we’ll learn this year is just how many different things in the gadget world can be called a tablet. We still don’t know exactly what Apple’s entry to that named category will be able to do, but eReading, media playback, web browsing and games all seem likely. However, if you just want [...]
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