Mac OSX, iOS & Android Development
Archive for May, 2010
iPad 3G is here
May 22nd
So, after a little while waiting, we now have an iPad wifi+3G 64gb version for our main portable. While all our development work has to stay on the Mac, our Macbook Air will go our to pasture.
At this stage we are using the iPad on wifi 99% of the time, but it has a prepay SIM loaded for that occasional use. There is a school of thought which says to hack your iPhone and use a tether system, no point, and who wants a hacked phone when a simple prepay data SIM is so easy to get!
So far, it is just an iPad, walk out onto the street, and it still an iPad! The wifi version without a data connection is kinda like a dataless piece of glass.
iPad wifi
May 2nd
The iPad wifi is a cool machine, in fact I’m using one now to write this using WordPress for iPad. Works well. I’m curious to see how the people who like to import iPads will go with the 3G model. I hope it goes smoothly, but i have a feeling that there is more to it than just dropping in a sim.
I have also found that Safari doesn’t quite display pages like the desktop version, the pages work, they just don’t render the same way. I guess you can’t have it all!