WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad 536
cypherdtraitor writes with news of an iPad rival being prepped in Germany for a June launch. "A German company, Neofonie GmbH, has set out to provide an alternative to the iPad, according to Neofonie's founder, Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen. The WePad will boast a Linux-based OS, USB ports, webcam, and Wi-Fi, as well as other features. The 16GB edition will cost €449 ($610), and the 32GB €569 ($773). A more expensive model will include a 3G modem. This PDF compares WePad specs with the iPad. There are also hints of cheap, available software. For example, OpenOffice.org will be the primary office suite, and you may use 'any application that pleases you' to play music and video, a clear edge over Apple's limitation to iTunes." The WePad will also run Flash.
WeeWeePad (Score:4, Funny)
First, there was the iPad for those nerdy chicks..
Now our children will have the "WeeWeePads"?
Who comes up with these names? And more disturbingly, what did they name their children?
TROLL (Score:0, Funny)
LOL!
Just stop it (Score:5, Funny)
?Pad.... (Score:2, Funny)
Features... (Score:3, Funny)
just one little thing... (Score:2, Funny)
... what no camera??
Great choice of names... (Score:3, Funny)
(Man, and I thought the iPad was a bad choice.)
Re:Just stop it (Score:3, Funny)
Yup just like how the iPod and iPhone are utter failures.
They barely sold any iPads... Geesh, only 700,000 of them sold first day. What posers, almost nobody bought them.... nobody wants these things. Look they are selling for almost nothing on ebay already....
This sarcasm brought to you by the Letter T.
Obligatory... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The comparison to the Apple II era again... (Score:5, Funny)
> And yet the iPhone was the best 'internet experience' mobile phone on the planet when it came out. In spite of the fact that it didn't have flash.
"These aren't the missing features you're looking for", Steve Jobs waves his hand.
Re:WeeWeePad (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just stop it (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe the WePad will include a USB port so you can attach that 18 button OpenOffice mouse.
Re:WeeWeePad (Score:5, Funny)
and Microsoft will dub their ill-begotten progeny the " MyPad "
If it's Zune compatible you'd be able to ask someone to "squirt on over to mypad" ... and then we could all throw up together.
Re:The comparison to the Apple II era again... (Score:3, Funny)
No one is suggesting that Adobe are wanting to charge Apple for a license for Flash. Nor that Apple refusing to support Flash is a license fee avoiding move. You have that wrong.
The advantage comes from Apple killing proprietary Flash on the internet and it's replacement with the HTML5 open standard. Apple does have that power. Many websites are already moving away from Flash for this very reason.
Re:Slashvert (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slashvert (Score:4, Funny)
So in other words, like the old saying goes, you don't pay escorts to come over to your place, you pay them to leave afterward?