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good Story
Europe Prices are really silly Its on sale in Uk �399! = ipad2 price = Hard Times for RIM, is that a surprise? I dont think so...
There should be a small Price difference over ipad2, �250 to �299 is just right price for 16gb model...
By That way Much more people had a chance to have one and see how good is this little thing
@Delil
You should buy HDMI cable NOW!!!09-08-11 05:57 PM - Great love story
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Think this should be sticked and people post their stories?
My story:
2011, the year of the tablets. I really wanted a tablet, specially for my ebooks reading, surfing, and knowing that my internship starts in August, and i will have countless hours of bus time, like 4+hrs a day. Im goung to die in that time! and not to mention waste it.
By around May i had to go back home in UAE for something for a week and come back to Malaysia to continue my semester, ive already started saving for a tablet by then.
I was of course very confused what to get, luckily when I went back home, my sister had an iPad 1 and ive used that thing extensively for about 5 days, as if it was my own, shes not vey big on using it and was very busy that time, so i loaded my data from my mac on it and everything, jailbroken it, used a lot of the apps on it, got bored eventually, was too much to carry out with me and stopped using it, thats when I knew iPad isnt going to cut it for me, it started to really feel like a giant ipod. and im kot a big fan of Apple devices either, hate their policies, love their Mac OSX 10.6 (not 10.7, its terrible).
So hail the Playbook. 7in, portable, uber fast(not really but for its class yes), works very well with my blackberry, doesnt have annoying Apple policies on it. Perfect, the video online were enough to convince me the Playbook is a much superior device, or at least has the potential, and my imagination had it fit well in my daily life.
Now the big problem was GETTING one and getting it ASAP. i was hoping i could play with it on the flight back to Malaysia, 6hrs. I had less that 20hrs in the country and 3 quarters of the ppl had no clue what a playbook is. I knew it wasnt coming anytime soon, not UAE, not Malaysia, so i had to reside to other solutions like ebay. Then I remembered my friend told me he got his guitar from souq.com, some site like ebay but local to UAE, so i gave it a try and voila! PB 16gb going for 460$ ! Not bad i thought! checked over and over for legibility, it checks out fine! by now i had about 3hours to leave the house for the airport :O. I started thinking, i really wanted this baby, so I picked my phone, called my friend who was gonna drop me at the airport, told him I need him to do me a favor, told him I'd make arrangement wih the guy whos selling the playbook and asked him to pick it up before coming to my place! he was ready for the job, i called the guy (he had his number listed), spoke to him, agreed to meet my friend somewhere nearby(but damn traffic). ofc i told him im flying in less than 6hrs and he was ready to work around that time. Phoned my friend, gave him the details and the waiting game begins, worst game ever cause the many changing variables and fuss of me flying out after a year of being out.
clock ticks, an hour passed, called the PB guy, he said his guy whos bring th PB to him is going to be late, about 2.3hrs left to leave the house, said okay and waited, in the mean time ran around finishing my packing to my single plane bag, checking in online to save me time on the airport and go as late as possible.
Clock ticks, 1.5 hours left to leave the house, called the PB guy, and agreed to meet at a parking lot very near and on the way to the airport. called my friend and calles him over, while multi tasking like a playbook, eating my last momma meal in another year or so, formatting the ipad and restoring it to the previous condition and dressing up and hustling on any goodies i could pick from home lol.
Friends arrive, clock ticks, flight is in abot 3hours, have to be at th airport an hour and a half before that so that gives it about 1.5 - 2hrs to get there, mind you traffic too. wave your goodbyes KQ and hop on into that car. made one call in the car to confirm everything and they he said hes at the parking lot, told him am on my way.
Clock still damn ticks, it was a race against time now, got to the location, identified the dudes carit was a shady looking car lol), stopped by, he came out with a sexy black box, lowered the car window and received this baby in my hands and i was thrilled already, gave him the cash, and woosh. Gone!! If he wanted to he could have easily ripped me off, on the way there i wanted to show off a bit, i unboxed it in a weird situation, took that thing out and i was in love! felt so nice on the hand, size was perfect! So i hit that darn button, red light flash, next thing i know i need wifi to activate -_-. bummer i thought heres manu free wifis at the airport .
unfortunatly got to the airport, no i didnt miss my flight but rather had no time to activate it, needed to download a freaking 350mb update :/. bummed me out, and it turned into torture, i was looking for a wifi everywhere, even on the plane LoL. btw i arrived at about 40mins or so before the flight, i checked in online and had 1 plane bag so it wasnt that hard. Now another waiting game begings, 6hrs on the plane, with a PB and all i can do is marvel at its beauty lol. lie a forbidden blackberry!
good news thought is that i got it working, and it works beatifully, been loving and using this thing eversince, and funniest thing i could say is my ipad friends who try to bezel swipe on their ipads LOL. thats like trying to touchpad swipe gesture on a windows laptop after using a macbook pro. And yes I'm typing this from my playbook in portrait mode (its easier) on my internship spending 2hours on the way to the office in the morning. so excuse the huge number of spelling and casing mistakes, this baby still doesnt fix that for me but thats alright.09-08-11 08:34 PM - Enjoyment is an understatement ;-)
Actually I knew exactly what was lacking on the device when I decided to get it. Would be cool to get those features but not really an issue for me.
Hey,
I'm living in Brussels. Originally from Genk (yes we are the national soccer champion, and yes we play the uefa champions league :-p)
Exactly. The bridge feature let's you use your existing blackberry dataplan to acces the internet through your playbook.
Now you know how I felt when I had the thing in my hand :-)
Sure why not. But you went through some real hassle to get the device. Risking your flight. That's some crazy shiznit !!!Great love story.
Think this should be sticked and people post their stories?
Glad to see you're enjoying it. And Ipad friends and bezel swipe is hilarious. hehe
cheers09-08-11 08:59 PM
