Hi Chris & William It's my understanding that Dictation is actually part of the OS, not hardware specific between iPad 2 and 3. I'm not utterly sure about that, but that's how I understand it. As for the processor, whether you'd really notice much difference depends upon just one factor in my experience, and that is whether or not you choose the iPad with cellular (3G) functionality. I base that comment on actual experience, not just guesswork or hearsay. I will qualify the comment. I owned an iPhone 3GS since they first came out in, from memory, June 2009 or was it 2010. Until, that was, a chance visit to a mobile phone shop this year where my own phone happened to ring. After I'd taken the call, the salesman dealing with Lynne on another issue commented that I could upgrade (trade-in) my iPhone 3GS for a new iPhone 4S. When he gave me the pricing information, I decided to go for it. So the upgrade was done on the spot and all my settings were ported over and I didn't have the issue o f having to find a new home for the old model, nor did I have to throw it into a cupboard and forget about it.
The difference between the iPhone 3GS and iPad 1 and the iPhone 4S are amazing. My current iPad has cellular data connection active and, whilst using the mobile network on both the iPhone 3GS and the iPad 1 , I frequently encountered mail stumbling and crashing while trying to cycle through messages. On the iPhone 4S, however, it's absolutely seamless and smooth with the exact same settings. This is also true of web browsing on the respective models. I was frequently frustrated by the sluggishness of my old iPhone when using cellular data. This problem did not occur when using Wi-Fi networking. I have been extremely fortunate in as much as my iPhones were both 64GB models, as are my iPads. Both the iPad 1 which I currently have and the iPad 3 which arrived today and which I have not yet unpacked, are 64GB models equipped with cellular data connections. So it's going to be very interesting to do a comparison between the two iPads side-by-side. All I'm going to do is take the micro-SIM card out of the old iPad and insert it into the new one, there should be no problem there since the iPads are not carrier specific. Anyway, if anybody on list is interested I will post details when I try them. Gordon On 18 Jun 2012, at 17:03, william lomas <[email protected]> wrote: all that is new really Chris is a slightly faster processor and dictation i think that's it, really so go for it if happy with ipad 2. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
