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 Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 12:34 Post subject: |
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You can still get an adapter for microsd on to your ipad, right?
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 12:39 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 13:12 Post subject: |
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I'm sure there is something for HDMI over at DealExtreme that costs much less. Between high DPI screen and cards, I'd take the screen.
BTW, didn't know about the card readers (or "Camera Connection Kit"). It can load HD movies as well from there, which is great. I can now get a cheap 16GB iPad and a card reader. 
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Werelds
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 13:26 Post subject: |
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The difference is not between low and high PPI Leo. It's between high and slightly higher. Don't use DPI as a term btw, you don't have dots on a display - you have pixels, dots apply to paper 
And for me the SD cards have replaced all my other mobile storage. They work in just about any device without any hassle nowadays and are cheap as fuck to store stuff on. Sure, transfer speeds are lower than that of a USB drive, but more than enough for just about anything (and in my case that's mostly images and audio, little bit of video) 
@ Pumpy/Sabin: my point exactly 
As nice as the iPad's display is, the hardware for an SD reader costs next to nothing, would fit in the chassis and because of how small microSD is, wouldn't hurt its aesthetics. Same goes for something like the cameras - so much focus on videocalling, but then they give you a bloody terrible VGA camera even though there are 2MP cams that are the exact same size and again, cost next to nothing more.
Instead, you either end up over-paying for a bigger model (same amount in microSD would cost 20 EUR for the best quality; 100 EUR gets you 96 GB easily) or still overpaying for an accessory :/
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 13:38 Post subject: |
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Dot an pixel is an interchangeable on a monitor. Well, it is on proper displays anyway, where you have equal amount of RGB components for each pixel.  PenTile matrix on the other hand...
But the transformer has an IPS display too, so it should be good.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 13:45 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 13:55 Post subject: |
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As far as the PPI goes, I'm quite happy with my iPad 2. The screen quality is great and I really have no complaints... except one and it is a huge one; non-iPad native apps look like fucking ASS. Nine times out of ten, the pixel-doubling makes everything look incredibly poor and I can only shudder how much worse that's going to be on the iPad 3. Native apps will look incredible, no doubt about it, but the adoption rate for iPad apps is still painfully low, so that's only going to get worse for the new Retina screen. At least Apple have enabled the iPad 3 to make use of iPhone retina assets though, for games that support Retina at least, so that should make a huge difference.
RetinaPad recently got updated to provide the same functionality for iPad 2 (using Retina images for non-native iPad titles) but I've not tested it yet so I can't confirm/deny. Obviously it won't ever look as good as retina, the PPI difference is too great, but it should at least alleviate the horrible pixellation on 2x mode apps.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 14:13 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 14:23 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 14:47 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | As far as the PPI goes, I'm quite happy with my iPad 2. The screen quality is great and I really have no complaints... except one and it is a huge one; non-iPad native apps look like fucking ASS. Nine times out of ten, the pixel-doubling makes everything look incredibly poor and I can only shudder how much worse that's going to be on the iPad 3. Native apps will look incredible, no doubt about it, but the adoption rate for iPad apps is still painfully low, so that's only going to get worse for the new Retina screen. At least Apple have enabled the iPad 3 to make use of iPhone retina assets though, for games that support Retina at least, so that should make a huge difference.
RetinaPad recently got updated to provide the same functionality for iPad 2 (using Retina images for non-native iPad titles) but I've not tested it yet so I can't confirm/deny. Obviously it won't ever look as good as retina, the PPI difference is too great, but it should at least alleviate the horrible pixellation on 2x mode apps. |
Well what you want, you are stretching a 320x480 image on top of 1024x768 display. 640x960 would be somewhat better, but still. Now imaging 320x480 stretching on top of 2048x1536 display |
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 14:55 Post subject: |
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Well yeah that looks nice and all and would fit well in my butt (that is what you do with overpriced apple gadgets, right? ) but it is really way to big and expensive.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Mar 2012 15:12 Post subject: |
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It's different. Apple can't have these fancy upscaling filters because iPad and iPhone have relatively similar chips (CPU+GPU), while iPad has higher resolution. So you can't really have the iPad 2 play a iPhone 4S game and scale it with some intensive filter. You also can't have iPad replace the resolution of most stuff because if how programming works (you can have different resolutions, but if you take the iPhone resolution as hardcoded, the app would break or worse). Apple could add an external upscaler chip, but they have no interest in it, and rightly so; they (and consumers) have an interest of developers developing native iPad apps. It really is very easy adapting an existing app to iPad if you do not wish to make changes. Especially games, where almost no UI is had, if written properly should render properly on almost any display with any aspect ratio (hello PC gaming). iPad has different UI paradigms (like split-view, popovers, etc.) which do require changes if developers want their apps to have the iPad native feel, but the way iOS SDK and the toolkit is set, it really is very simple. And I mean VERY. So any developer making only iPhone app without iPad version is either just lazy or some evangelical-like idiot opposed to tablets.
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Apr 2012 17:07 Post subject: |
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So im thinking about buying a ipad 3 tomorrow so my question is. Will i be able to jailbreak it and add files and such as i like? i like to read comics and such so it would be nice to install a comic reader app and put in the comic files myself, and i also wouldnt mind downloading games from wbb and adding them to the ipad. I know this is doable with galaxy tab, but i already have a galaxy s2 so i would like access to a different market also.
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murgo
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| Posted: Mon, 2nd Apr 2012 18:43 Post subject: |
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well, the device has already been jailbroken. apparently there's multiple exploits, but it can still be a while until a public jb tool will be released.
@Stormwolf: you can put files on it without a jailbreak. i load my stuff through dropbox.
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| Posted: Wed, 4th Apr 2012 09:56 Post subject: |
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Seems there's some serious panel lottery going on. Fair amount of users reporting getting iPads with lowered brightness+contrast and a yellow hue across the screen. Maybe that's how they're trying to solve the availability problem, using cheaper panels.
Edit: after reading some more, lots of dead pixels as well. Getting replacements is next to impossible obviously, out of the few that did get one there's been some that got a malfunctioning one even the second time.
The yellow tint seems to come from a shit backlight, apparently there's a fair amount of backlight bleeding at the bottom, resulting in the top half looking yellowish.
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| Posted: Wed, 4th Apr 2012 12:17 Post subject: |
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Couldn't those people just buy an Apple Care Plan and then make instant replacement with that?
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| Posted: Wed, 4th Apr 2012 12:21 Post subject: |
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murgo
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| Posted: Wed, 4th Apr 2012 12:21 Post subject: |
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guess i got lucky then. my ipad has no backlight bleeding, no dead pixels and no yellow hue.
i thought apple chose samsung as the lone display manufacturer for the new ipad, because LG and others didn't match the quality requirements.
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| Posted: Wed, 4th Apr 2012 13:06 Post subject: |
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Apple always keep a stock for replacements, you wouldn't have a problem getting it replaced on the spot at a store
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| Posted: Wed, 4th Apr 2012 13:16 Post subject: |
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Yes you would, depending on the model. The more expensive models you may get lucky, but both the "4G" (not true 4G btw, good thing I don't care about that ) and regular 16GB models (both colours) are completely out of stock, even at Apple themselves online (2 week waiting period). The real Apple Store they opened in Amsterdam recently with all the big fuss has 0 stock on those, neither does any MediaMarkt or MyCom here in NL (which are their 2 big partners here).
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| Posted: Wed, 4th Apr 2012 15:57 Post subject: |
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gonna stay with the ipad2 after reading all this negative stuff.
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Apr 2012 15:14 Post subject: |
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yeah, that is the same problem i had with all 3 primes. my ipad's wifi works fine though. at least apple is acknowledging the issue, whereas asus claims that only the gps is affected by the aluminum backplate.
edit: just did a quick speedtest on the balcony. with the prime, i got about 0.5-1 mbit there.. the ipad managed 8-9 just now.
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Apr 2012 18:33 Post subject: |
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| murgo wrote: | yeah, that is the same problem i had with all 3 primes. my ipad's wifi works fine though. at least apple is acknowledging the issue, whereas asus claims that only the gps is affected by the aluminum backplate.
edit: just did a quick speedtest on the balcony. with the prime, i got about 0.5-1 mbit there.. the ipad managed 8-9 just now. |
ASUS did acknowledge the issues, dunno what you're on about. Thing is that somehow your retailer (because I'm assuming you didn't actually ship directly to ASUS, don't think that's even possible) gave you 3 of the bad revisions in a row (in other words: they suck). There's been 2 revisions since the release and both have their WiFi antennas relocated slightly.
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