Apple’s new tablet and an Indian phablet both spell the same mantra — Bigger is better!
The new tablet - the iPad Pro - launched by Apple last week is oversized, overpriced and over here.
The new tablet — the iPad Pro — launched by Apple last week is oversized, overpriced and over here. Mind you, it will be another 6-8 weeks before you and I can even get to touch and feel this device in a showroom in India. But having viewed the live streaming of Apple’s launch event, and concentrating on the only new product in the line up — the iPad Pro — I was underwhelmed to find that it was so similar to Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 launched a year ago — only bigger.
At 12.9 inches, (to the Surface Pro 3’s 12 inches) it is arguably the largest tablet PC ever offered and works with an optional smart keyboard — and something that the Apple’s late head Steve Jobs once strongly panned — a stylus. The Retina touch screen (2732 by 2048 pixels) is the highest resolution offered in any iOS device and Apple has managed to keep the weight down to an astonishing 713 grams and the thickness to less than 7 mm. There is a built-in Apple SIM in some models, for connectivity when you are not in a Wi-Fi hot spot — but I am guessing this will only work with the mobile provider whom Apple partners in India.
The Apple iPad Pro with the stylus or Pencil will be a favourite of artists
The stylus or Pencil (which seems outrageously over priced at $99 (when even the Surface Pro threw it in free), seems like most Apple innovations, a thing of beauty and is as close as you can get to a real pen pencil’s touch and feel. As you press harder the line gets wider and I can see artistic types rave over its creative possibility.
With a size larger than a Netbook PC one can reasonably except the tablet to help you do PC things on it. But while Microsoft realised the error of its ways with the flop Surface RT and gave the Surface Pro 3 a full Windows PC OS, the iPad Pro runs the 9th avatar of Apple’s phone iOS. So, while you can run many of the thousands of iOS apps, the machine seems to be ill equipped to perform standard PC productivity functions. I know Apple and paisa vasool are a contradiction in terms but $799 for the 32 GB Wi-Fi model without SIM (Rs 54,000) and $1079 for the model with WiFi, SIM and 128 GB (Rs 71,500) plus another $ 169 (Rs 11,000) seems to be a stiff asking price for a tablet. Official MRP in India will be at least 15 per cent higher if duties are factored. And can you see yourself using a 13-inch tablet while standing or even balanced on your knee, in a public place — I thought that’s what tablets were meant for — till they got too big for their own good!
— IndiaTechOnline.com
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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