I need as much screen real-estate as I can get and a real keyboard. Mobile devices have a way to go to get me that.
...and there are still plenty of places where you can’t reach the cloud without tethering at an effective 56k, so I also want standalone capability.
As I understand it, you’d still have that.
Your phone will be your computer. When you get home, you’d dock it and access a monitor, keyboard, printer and stuff, for that large real estate.
When you’re mobile, you’d still be able to do everything that you can do on a desktop. You wouldn’t, if you didn’t want to, stop what you’re doing just because you’re away from the desktop.
The iPad 3 has a new “key” on its virtual keyboard - “Siri.” You press it and, so the demo suggests, your iPad takes dictation. I just got an iPad 2, and will probably stand pat for a little while at least. But if in fact I learn that Siri is for real as a dictation-taker, I will be tempted sorely. By that, and the “retina display” and the iPhoto app that was demo’d yesterday.One thing I have noticed in the camera on the iPad is its “gorilla arm” tendency. You need to hold the 1 1/2 lb. “camera” up and away in front of you to sight the camera, and that is an uncomfortable position to hold for any length of time. And I find that whenever I view a video I took, I am always disappointed when the video ends - but you simply have no choice but to limit how long you take videos with the iPad.
Exactamundo.