Anyone bought an Ipad yet?

[TimberWolf]

The BBC have bought one with tax payers money and given it to Jake Humphries to parade on the F1 show I see.

I notice he was still reading viewers emails off his phone though.

There was one on the Jonathan Ross show too. They cooked bacon on it, literally.

[TimberWolf]

I haven't bought an iPod yet (still waiting for the price to come down), or a sat nav.

[stek]

Can you still get cars with manual advance and retard on the ignition?

[threaded]

Can you still get cars with manual advance and retard on the ignition?

Yes as an after market performance extra. Most cars, as stock, have the auto advance set up to give smooth idling when cold and benefit from having it moved when warm. Newer ignition systems manage this on their own. And top performance engines are warmed up externally prior to being started.

There are motorbikes still manufactured that have it, all be it they are deliberately primitive models going for a particular market.

[DieScum]

Had a look at one this weekend. Nice anything but can't see much utility for me. Would be nice for sofa surfing but that's all. Can't justify the price.

I'll pass... but having said that was never bothered about Ipods until I got an ipod touch for free. Absolutely love the thing and would shell out for a replacement in an instant if it broke... but ipad isn't really in the same league of usefulness.

[DiscoStu]

It'll never happen. Flash is hungry for cycles and drains the power,

I'm a grown up. He can put a big sticker on the front when I buy it saying using Flash will halve my battery life. Then everybody's happy. I hate the whole Steve Jobs control freak thing.

[d000hg]

The BBC have bought one with tax payers money and given it to Jake Humphries to parade on the F1 show I see.

How do you know he didn't buy it himself? <clarkson>Besides £500 is hardly a lot compared to flying him around the world or paying £millions for the F1 licensing. Just think how many baby life support machines they could buy with that...</clarkson>

[d000hg]

Flash was never designed for streaming video or games.

So what? HTML wasn't designed for all that AJAX stuff... but in real life that's how it is.

[rhubarb]

Waiting for the next iteration of the iphone though - that is going to kick ass!

Should be released in a week or so. Very much looking forward to that.

[TimberWolf]

Should be released in a week or so. Very much looking forward to that.

Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
This Is Apple's Next iPhone

So regular SIM cards presumably won't work.