http://www.apple.com/ipad
As everyone knows, today is the day the apple makes available... the iPad... on my birthday! :)
Excruciatingly tempting this new techie eye candy!
Historically, a tech junkie myself, and I'm drooling at the moment.
I got my first Motorola touch-screen phone in 2000 and the Jornada touch-screen HP hand-held PC in 2001.
Later, on the same year, I used my very first digital camera when most peeps were on film! ...using 128mb compact flash cards to store my pics. 128mb of memory seemed huge at that time. I still have it but I don't use it anymore coz I already got terabytes of juice now.
I also remember hunting for new gadgets in the basement of Lucky Plaza in Singapore, way back in 2007, I saw and bought my first iPhone there. It cost me almost 43 thousand pesos!
Coming back here in the Philippines was fun coz nobody owns it. It was a conversational piece on its own at that time. You won't see any iPhone troubleshooters in Greenhills before. Now, its everywhere! Now, it's just a normal device. Even the balut vendors own it. Well, maybe not the balut vendors... yet! :)
...and now here comes the iPad!
why not? It would be a nice gift, I wouldn't mind receiving it for my birthday :)
But I know it won't happen! ha ha ha! The only thing for me to get it is to buy it!
There's one problem. It's pretty, but I'm not satisfied w/ what I'm reading in the reviews!
No 3G w/o AT&T.
No webcam.
No Flash support.
No HD video output.
Limited multitasking abilities.
Can't charge iPad over USB port.
Bad to read in direct sunlight.
Have to buy a lot of devices for comfort.
With the troubled economy, I need to weigh things. I need to be cautious of my spending. I should get the best of my money's worth. Do I need it? Do I need it just to have the hottest gadget on the market? Shall I wait for a much better, more complete, more satisfying second generation iPad?
At the moment, I have no other choice but to wait, as it's not yet available here in the Philippines and I don't want the hassles of ordering online again.
Anyway, I hope there's some kind of improvement in a few weeks, even a firmware or an app, so I can buy it in the States when I go there in late of May.
A better iPad. Soon! I hope so! :)
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Now, I'm very very confused!!!
As everyone knows, today is the day the apple makes available... the iPad... on my birthday! :)
Historically, a tech junkie myself, and I'm drooling at the moment.
Later, on the same year, I used my very first digital camera when most peeps were on film! ...using 128mb compact flash cards to store my pics. 128mb of memory seemed huge at that time. I still have it but I don't use it anymore coz I already got terabytes of juice now.
I also remember hunting for new gadgets in the basement of Lucky Plaza in Singapore, way back in 2007, I saw and bought my first iPhone there. It cost me almost 43 thousand pesos!
Coming back here in the Philippines was fun coz nobody owns it. It was a conversational piece on its own at that time. You won't see any iPhone troubleshooters in Greenhills before. Now, its everywhere! Now, it's just a normal device. Even the balut vendors own it. Well, maybe not the balut vendors... yet! :)
...and now here comes the iPad!
why not? It would be a nice gift, I wouldn't mind receiving it for my birthday :)
But I know it won't happen! ha ha ha! The only thing for me to get it is to buy it!
There's one problem. It's pretty, but I'm not satisfied w/ what I'm reading in the reviews!
No 3G w/o AT&T.
No webcam.
No Flash support.
No HD video output.
Limited multitasking abilities.
Can't charge iPad over USB port.
Bad to read in direct sunlight.
Have to buy a lot of devices for comfort.
With the troubled economy, I need to weigh things. I need to be cautious of my spending. I should get the best of my money's worth. Do I need it? Do I need it just to have the hottest gadget on the market? Shall I wait for a much better, more complete, more satisfying second generation iPad?
At the moment, I have no other choice but to wait, as it's not yet available here in the Philippines and I don't want the hassles of ordering online again.
Anyway, I hope there's some kind of improvement in a few weeks, even a firmware or an app, so I can buy it in the States when I go there in late of May.
A better iPad. Soon! I hope so! :)
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Now, I'm very very confused!!!
now, i'm very very confused!!!
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Stores in Vira Mall in Greenhills are selling iPads now for 35 thousand pesos!
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