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Stuff - Best gadget of the year 2010

Apple has won a best gadget award for its iPad, beating the Amazon Kindle and Sky 3D to two titles.

The iPad was crowned Gadget of the Year and Readers' Gadget of the Year in the 2010 Stuff Gadget Awards.

"The iPad's success was by no means pre-ordained. It's expensive and functionally limited," Stuff magazine editor and judge Fraser Macdonald said.

"But it is also quite gloriously indispensable and only making itself more so with the increasing number of apps and accessories. To see it is to want it, and that's why it's our gadget of the year."

Am I really the only one who doesn't really 'get' the iPad? I played with one for about a minute in the Apple shop. It's a nice-ish piece of kit and I might get one if they improved it a bit and charged about £100. To pay £500 or so for it you'd have to be completely mad surely?

My theory is that noone who has actually shelled out for one of these dare actually say that they are slightly disappointed with what they got for their money or they will look a knob.

As for 'gloriously indispensable' that's pushing it a bit.

I'll say up front I've got an Android phone and I have exactly the same feelings about the rival Android tabs so it's not an Android / iPhone thing.

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[kandr]

Stuff - Best gadget of the year 2010



Am I really the only one who doesn't really 'get' the iPad? I played with one for about a minute in the Apple shop. It's a nice-ish piece of kit and I might get one if they improved it a bit and charged about £100. To pay £500 or so for it you'd have to be completely mad surely?

My theory is that noone who has actually shelled out for one of these dare actually say that they are slightly disappointed with what they got for their money or they will look a knob.

As for 'gloriously indispensable' that's pushing it a bit.

I'll say up front I've got an Android phone and I have exactly the same feelings about the rival Android tabs so it's not an Android / iPhone thing.

I have an Ipad and I really like it as a portable web/email device. The thing that does it for me is its battery life, it lasts days on end. Its just easy to grab it and start surfing, in the bog, in bed etc

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I have an Ipad and I really like it as a portable web/email device. The thing that does it for me is its battery life, it lasts days on end. Its just easy to grab it and start surfing, in the bog, in bed etc

Hardly essential is it - I mean most people go to the bog to have a dump and go to bed to sleep/bone the partner.

If I want to surf the web I have a laptop - if I need a dump while surfing the web I am sure I can manage lieb with a 5 minute break.

I mean it may be seen as 'useful' but is certainly not 'essential'

[kandr]

Hardly essential is it - I mean most people go to the bog to have a dump and go to bed to sleep/bone the partner.

If I want to surf the web I have a laptop - if I need a dump while surfing the web I am sure I can manage lieb with a 5 minute break.

I mean it may be seen as 'useful' but is certainly not 'essential'

It's not essential but what is except some water and food and warmth.

[gingerjedi]

My theory is that noone who has actually shelled out for one of these dare actually say that they are slightly disappointed with what they got for their money or they will look a knob.

I have an Ipad and I really like it as a portable web/email device. The thing that does it for me is its battery life, it lasts days on end. Its just easy to grab it and start surfing, in the bog, in bed etc

Case in point.

For decades you paid a premium for smaller, lighter and more portable devices now (like the parody said) you're paying 2x as much for a 'big ol ipod touch'.

[MaryPoppins]

Case in point.

For decades you paid a premium for smaller, lighter and more portable devices now (like the parody said) you're paying 2x as much for a 'big ol ipod touch'.

The advert used to say "What is iPad?" - I dunno.

I've never got them. I'm not techy at all so I assumed it was something beyond me. I have got an iPod, and a HTC - both are portable and let me do 'stuff' online, with music etc.

I would feel a right tit dragging one of those massive things out on the train.

[kandr]

The advert used to say "What is iPad?" - I dunno.

I've never got them. I'm not techy at all so I assumed it was something beyond me. I have got an iPod, and a HTC - both are portable and let me do 'stuff' online, with music etc.

I would feel a right tit dragging one of those massive things out on the train.

I agree, I only use mine around the house or on holiday, great for sitting on the sofa etc. Although sometimes I wish I waited for an android tablet.

[RichardCranium]

I would feel a right tit dragging one of those massive things out on the train.

Careful. You'll set EO off again.

[MaryPoppins]

I agree, I only use mine around the house or on holiday, great for sitting on the sofa etc. Although sometimes I wish I waited for an android tablet.

But, but, but......I've got a laptop for that?!