That's about all they said about it in the news, plus the fact it has a front facing camera for videoconferencing which the iPad 1 doesn't have. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/techbytes-verizon-iphone/story?id=12881702
In hardware specs the iPad 2 will reportedly be a bit better than the HP device, and it sounds like the Motorola Xoom is better, but I haven't heard if either can run Flash. Surely there's a lot you can do without Flash but there is still quite a bit out there which requires it. As for the phones I still have the LG env phone. It doesn't have any apps I'm aware of but it does everything I need a phone to do. It has several buttons. My wife just got a droid phone. It's all touch screen, no physical keyboard, and it just has one physical button. I haven't used it much but I'm not even sure what the button does. It seems to use on screen buttons more. On Feb 10, 8:07 am, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you must have forgotten to mention the big advantage, instead > leaving "It can run Flash" in there. Did you send the email too > early, or was it a joke? > > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Eric <[email protected]> wrote: > > The TV news this morning sounds related to your topic. > > > 1. iPhone 4 goes on sale today for Verizon, which can also be > > purchased at Best Buy and WalMart. > > > 2. HP is selling a device like an iPad, same size, with one big > > advantage. It can run Flash. > > > On Feb 10, 7:49 am, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "7 inch tablet ideal reading devices" (Dick) > >> In my mind, not true if you read PDFs (books, articles, paper) - you > >> need 10 inch tablet for this. > > >> "iPad 2 not powerful enough for retina display" (Joe) > >> Rumors suggest that iPad 2 will have twice the CPU power and 2-4 times > >> the graphic power of iPad 1. So while this is probably not enough to > >> drive a retina screen, I think availability of screens is a much > >> bigger hurdle. Apple will sell north of 20 millions iPad 2 this year, > >> and nobody can produce that many high resolution screens (2048x1528 on > >> 9.7 inch) at acceptable yields and therefore with acceptable costs. > >> Look at Samsung's comparatively small AMOLED screens - HTC used them > >> for a while and then had to switch to LCD last summer because Samsung > >> couldn't make enough of them. Now even Samsung switches back (Nexus S > >> will supposedly launch with LCD in Germany). Apple announced recently > >> that they'll spend $3.9 billion over the next years to buy production > >> capacity in advance (like they did with Flash in 2005), and most > >> analysts think this is for displays. > > >> "Honeycomb is as simple as (current) iPad UI" (Tor) > >> Honeycomb has widgets and live wall papers and 3-4 soft buttons (and a > >> system bar, but that may be the soft buttons). iPad has just a list > >> of apps and one "get me out of here" button, so to me, that is a lot > >> simpler. I guess that folders and "home button double click" are > >> power user features that most of the iPad users don't use. Now I think > >> we'll see widgets and improved notifications in iOS 5, but I bet that > >> Apple still tries to keep it as simple and as similar to iPhone as > >> possible. As Steve Jobs once remarked, Apple trained millions of users > >> on how to use the iPad - the "boring wall of icons" is well- > >> understood. I find it fascinating to watch which approach (Android or > >> Apple) will be more successful. > > >> JavaFX discussion (Tor) > >> Even leaving aside the unmitigated disaster that is "JavaFX Mobile", I > >> think Sun followed the wrong strategy for JavaFX by chasing the > >> consumer ("all the screens of your live") and Flash. Sun just didn't > >> get the consumer (if you ever read the "What is Java" description in > >> the JRE installer, you know what I mean), and Flash was ubiquitous on > >> the desktop, which even Microsoft couldn't touch. I didn't get the > >> priorities either - there was a chart library, but no data grid or > >> tree control, and the graphic stack was re-written, but the tool > >> support was insufficient and "not production quality" until late. That > >> Apple and Android both put mobile apps and HTML 5 on the developer's > >> agenda, didn't help either. Now it seems Oracle does what Sun should > >> have done from the beginning - making it easier to write more > >> attractive, more connected Swing applications. After all, corporate > >> applications are Swing's stronghold. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
