Gadgetory

hi i'm molly wood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week it's a bear giving birth on a webcam oh alright the only news this week was the apple tablet it happened steve jobs announced the long-awaited touchscreen tablet like device this week at a special event in San Francisco and it shall be called the ipad I've made enough jokes so let me just show you what was trending on Twitter immediately after the announcement so I think that about covers that for now and now for the specs here's what we know about the ipad in case you don't live here on earth it's got a 9.7 inch LCD with an LED backlight it's based on the iphone OS but some of the apps like itunes the games and i work are specific to the pad and are more robust it comes in three sizes 16 32 and 64 gigabytes and it's available with only Wi-Fi or with 3g for an extra hundred thirty dollars the data plan costs fifteen dollars a month for 250 megabytes or thirty dollars for unlimited data and it's running on the AT&T network mmm it's very pretty it has a cool multi-touch touch screen it has those new redesigned core apps that look really good and there's a new ebook store and a book app that syncs with your iPhone while you're reading so that's cool prices range from 499 at the low end to eight hundred twenty nine dollars for the top-of-the-line model with 3g and that's not counting the data plans so what's missing well there's no multitasking you can still only run one app at a time no camera you can't use it to make skype webcam calls or even video chat with Grandma come on no flash Steve Jobs may say it's the best browsing experience you'll ever have but it's still not as good as the real internet which uses a lot of flash for things like video which I would imagine look pretty good on the iPad that's it it's also missing widescreen 16 by 9 video support and on top of that there's no hdmi to your TV and watch video there's no SD card slot you'll have to pay extra for a camera kit adapter there's no e ink so reading books will be hard on your eyes there is existing technology that can flip screens from e ink to backlit LCD and back again but that's not in here and there's no kickstand to keep it standing up you'll have to pay extra for a dock or a case that includes a dock or an external keyboard that includes a dock so there's all that and then okay I know I've been saying this for a while but let's make it official in song form I've had absolutely no one who needs this thing alright well let's see if we can figure it out here are some of the neat things it can do it has the new york times app so the paper looks all slick and you can move around the columns and watch video in place good then there's the bookstore which is also good it makes the books look all animated and pretty and it's a nice way to read the paper and books and it might be good for students who don't want to carry around a lot of textbooks certainly e-textbooks can be cheaper than regular ones as long as you can make notes in the margin or annotate or whatever should be able to do that and then you do get all those itunes apps like games and the calendar and the cool I photo thing and then there's the painting app which looks pretty fun Steve Jobs said artists would like that probably not like starving artists or art students unless they have rich parents or trust funds so okay let's review you've got your New York Times liberal intellectuals students studying and disciplines that offer a lot of electronic textbooks and artists who have a bunch of extra money so I added it up and ya know I think I was right like 800 people are gonna buy the ipad oh but there's also just rich people who love new gadgets from Apple that's probably like another 2,000 but you know what let's get back to the name I'm gonna let the internet make the bulk of the jokes for me because well they are doing a great job but I will say this I've never had an easier clogging the tubes thank you mad TV for predicting this entire debacle way back in two thousand six why use a maxi pad when there's the new ipad from apple ipod what's a new ipad i just hook up my apple to my and seriously ipad apple put some women on your focus group next time and that's the buzz report for this week everyone i'm molly wood and thank you for watching absolutely no one see it again