Ipad/Tablet as there called

Yes Notso, a few here at work just mentioned that brand as well.Thankyou.....

Will follow that up Royce but I think I would have to pay some thing as technically its a contract so I might need to pay some thing to update, have no idea but will ask the question.Cheers

Hi there Royce, just rang optus up as Im in a 2 year contract which doesnt end till next march next year I cant update unless I want to hand over $860, so that wont be happening, did tell them I had been with them for over 20 years but didnt matter a contract is a contract which is fair enough....Cheers

Ah bad luck.

"" And you can connect a USB flash drive using the Apple camera connection adaptor which has USB socket. See here.
The kit also includes an SD card connector. ""
Thanks Allan, that was one of the main things I wanted to find out about. Cheers Thankyou

Agreed - We love our 64gb 3G Ipad2 - it seems even better than our PC for running Skype.

There isn't much I cant do with it - just a matter of finding the right app. for the required job and there is always someone who will tell you which to look for on the Apple forums.

This is our second Ipad as I wanted to update to a camera for Skype and for us 3G is a must as it works with so many apps.

It is interesting to note that both our IPads seem to use far less of our monthly allowance from Telstra than our laptop does perhaps because it isn't always updating something. Also the 10 hour battery life is fantastic - both ours seem get the full 10 hours despite being 3g models. Our original IPad is now a couple of years old and no sign of diminished battery yet unlike our Dell laptop.

Sue
Karratha WA

Allan B wrote: "And you can connect a USB flash drive using the Apple camera connection adaptor which has USB socket. See here.
The kit also includes an SD card connector."

Correction: The Camera Connection kit DOES NOT allow you to connect a USB stick to an iPad. It allows you to connect a camera via a USB cable and download photos directly from the camera to your iPad. Alternatively, it provides an SD Card slot to take the images directly from a card. It WILL NOT support a USB stick.

However, there are plenty of ways to get your photos of your kids, or anything else, visible and downloadable by others.

By signing up with Apple's iCloud (free) and activating Photo Stream all the photos you take/store on the iPad can be made available through online galleries. You can password protect them to allow only those you chose to have access, and they can view and download/print from their.

The best thing to do is visit an authorised reseller or Apple Store to get your questions answered and have a play with the device.

Danger Mouse

Sorry Danger Mouse, it is possible to transfer JPG photos between a USB flash drive and an iPad. I have done it.

The trick is to fool the iPad into believing that the flash drive is a camera. An easy way to do this is to firstly format the flash drive as MS-DOS (FAT32) then take the SD card from a camera with at least one JPG image on it. Connect both card and drive to a computer and copy the contents including all folders from the SD card to the flash drive. This configures the flash drive as a camera.

You can now drag any JPG images into the flash drive folder then connect it to the iPad, or any other computer for that matter, and import or view the images.

The first flash drive that I tried was not acceptable to the iPad as it "Required too much power". It was a rather old flash drive and by using a more recent one there was no problem.

Well there you go! You learn something new every day!

I'll have to give that a go myself.

Thanks Allan.

DM

Hi,
Be aware there is a new Ipad 3 coming very soon, next couple of months, also Toshiba is releasing their new 11.6 Tablet about the same time, which by the research I have done will run circles around the Apple, good luck.

Wayne

Hi Gary

I have been thinking of upgrading my laptop to an ipad. The one big issue for me is that I have paid for and have oziexplorer and maps and am not keen to have to buy them all again.

How well does bitmap work? Is it easy to transfer your maps from the laptop to the ipad.

I wonder how long it will be until Ozi Explorer have an ipad app?

Regards

Geoff

Hi Geoff

I have the 1:50,000 raster maps of the Kimberley, and use it mostly north of the Gibb River.

From what I can remember it took the best part of a day to convert the oziexplorer map images into a jpeg, then optimize the image using Bitmap optimization software, then zip this file with the corresponding Oziexplorer ecw file into a folder. Once this is done, then transferring the folders over to the iPad, via iTunes, is quite easy. It doesn't take that long, but when you have over 400 maps, it takes a bit of time.

Bitmaps works really well as a "moving map" app, with transitions between maps really good. You can group your maps together when zipping into a folder, which is pretty handy. It can do waypoints and tracks, but since I have a Garmin Oregan 450, I don't use those features on bitmaps.

The big screen of the ipad is pretty cool and the cost of Bitmap is pretty cheap at around $5. Oziexplorer website is saying that they will ramp up development when the Andriod version has been released as a beta. They released beta version 1.10 for the Andriod on the 5 Jan, so I guess it won't be long, but don't hold your breath.

Cheers Gary

Bitmap reads my oziexplorer ozf2 files without any conversion. I can't seem to import gpx tracks into it though. That would be good if it was possible.

Kimba10'
Keep watching the thread. I love sales people but the Internet lets you get information from users rather than sales people.
I'm an IPad, iPhone and Mac user and I find them superior in most ways.

Skull

I dont disrespect sales people (not saying your saying that either) there just trying to do their job but as I have no experiance with these things I have to go by yourself and others as to what is best for me and how to use the bloody thing when I do get it lol. I have now been told to try these ones as their great also ??

http://www.motioncomputing.com.au/products/index_in_alt.asp?gclid=CLvRxrvAi64CFQZspAod_lU_5g

Whats your thoughts on these ones ?? Cheers Steve

If there are a few apps you like on the iPad, eg oziexplorer or HEMA maps. Dont take it for granted they will be available for the other tablets.

iPad is the safe bet.

Will find out what they are and let you know on each of them and what can be added and will post on here for opinions to what is best. Cheers Steve

Kimba10,
It's not so much the tablet (hardware) as the interface. I have used MS PCs since the mid 80s but when they released Vista, I went Apple and really appreciate the use-ability. Where we once carried a laptop and Nokia x2 we now have iPhones and iPad covering business and travelling. Cloud storage is magic it and works when you set it up without "fatal errors" etc. I have never found any operating system so easy to use.

Don't get me wrong, when Apple loose the plot, I will change, but for now it is for me.

Skull

Oziexplorer isn't available on the ipad.

Hi there old girl I also like the sound of the bluetooth keyboard, as the lady said she did say you could put some velcro tape on the back of I pad the other half either on your dash and then open glovebox and use that as a table for the bluetooth keyboard, she said that way you dont need some big cradle or what ever just for a laptop, sounded like a great idea to me, sales pitch yeah maybe but sounded ideal to me ?? Have put a link for another brand on one of my other replys, have a look at these and see what you think, might suit your husband ?? This link was given to me by another person on another forum......Cheers Steve

Yeah no such luck Muzbry,our little isnt 4 yet so only going to daycare 2 days a week but will keep that one up my sleeve......Cheers Steve

Gday Kimba
I rechecked and it's $390-00 for primary and $780-00 or so for high school kids.

Kimba 10

I just got a J series from Motion Computing to replace my old laptop and it is great Full i7 running windows 7 pro. built in GPS and sim wifi the lot. cost a lot more then the above. but should last a long time. it is mil spec.

You can get them at tablet pc in Melb. go to there site and watch the training video's.


Cheers

PS. the boss has a CL900 and he love it (he had just got a new laptop a year ago).

Thread 90679 by the Explorer might be helpfull to.
cheers

Chris can you use a bigpond air card in it?
Sharon

Hi Sharon
Sorry but I have no Idea, maybe someone else will be able to answer this.
I connect to the internet either through my phone or via wireless networks.
Chris

I'm contemplating the idea of getting a tablet when my laptop (which is my Husbands old laptop) is ready for replacement. We have two school age children so no doubt they should be introduced to that kind of tech sooner or later anyway!

I've had an Apple iMac prior to now. My Husband has had an iPhone for a short period. We both now have a Motorola Defy+ each as our phones currently (it's my first smartphone). He liked the iPhone but likes the Motorola just as much if not more (quite similar in a lot of ways he reckons). I still have my phat iPod nano too, I guess unlike a lot of people I quite like using ITunes particularly for the podcasts, it's just more of a pain to sync them to the (non Apple) smartphone and keep track of which ones I've heard and which ones I haven't compared to just plugging the ipod in. But in saying that I certainly can sync all my ITunes downloads to my Motorola phone without any problem.

I don't like to rule out the IPad just because I don't think I'd buy another iMac again. Although I think at this stage I'd be more inclined to lean towards an Android tablet (maybe the new windows 8 that's about to come out?). And that's why I'm reading this thread, good to at least try and keep an open mind as to what to go with next!

I found no trouble adapting to an iMac but switching everything back to windows after that was more of a challenge. (still on XP now)

Certainly a great idea using a phone tethered for the internet, only problem I see there is that most smartphones are quite battery hungry particularly when using 3g data.
If I was to buy a tablet of any sort I'm not sure I like the idea of having a seperate sim card just for data for that either. Mainly because we live in a rural area where the signal is too crappy to use the next G data for internet purposes (well apart from occasionally on the mobile if the satellite internet is down and only when sitting outside)

The ipad(3g) runs a proper GPS, not assisted GPS which is when you have 3g coverage. As do the iphone 4's - they also don't require network coverage to navigate.

Correction there. Ipad''s do have assisted GPS. What that means is that the Ipad does have a true GPS built in and works very well, but while its in 3g range it will also use 3g towers to calculate postion. It does this as using 3g when in range works quicker that waiting to lock in on satellites.

In practice, having assisted gps is better than just gps. It's the terminoligy that gets people confused thinking thats its a poor cousin to real gps.

The iPad doesn't JUST have agps. You're arguing semantics but you've made no corrections.

Maybe you meant to say originally that the ipad "The ipad(3g) runs a proper GPS, not JUST assisted GPS which is when you have 3g coverage.

I read your response as to say the ipad doesn't have agps and I was explaining that agps means an additional enhancement on top of the built in gps.

Sorry if you took offence.

All good mate

Thanks Wayne, will follow that up.....Cheers Steve