The qualifier “like a smartphone” was there for a reason. Had I left it off, your argument would be valid.
If something is not the same form factor as a smartphone, it can not, by definition, function in the same manner as a smartphone. Just like a minivan will never function like a subcompact. Yes, they both run on gasoline, but they are different animals. Different form factors.
Are you getting this?
I wonder if they will have a sling type holder for it. It can’t fit in my pocket!
But you were not specific on what that you were talking form factor. You stated it cannot make calls like a smartphone, when it can make calls like a smartphone - it just performs the task differently.
True - but they both perform the exact same task - just differently. Would you not agree?
It is not a case of them being a different form factor- it is a case of an unspecific statement. I agree with you, wholeheartedly, that the iPad is not the best item in it’s price range to perform the tasks that Apple list it for… I paraphrase your sentiments with, it’s a giant iPhone.
I don’t see it’s place, unless it is with Apple Fu**ers. I refer to myself as a Mac-■■■■■■… a notch below my friend who is a self-professed Mac-Cu*t, and I don’t see it’s use for those who already have laptops and/or iPhones.
Get bigger pockets.
C’mon guys, let’s not get into petty arguments and debates on here.
I took it as a similie. With an iPad you can dial a telephone number, you speak, they hear. You can also surf the web and blah, blah [marketing jargon here]. With a smartphone you can dial a number, you speak, they hear. They both seem alike to me… unless a clarification of ‘you cannot operate the iPad like a smartphone whilst making calls’ is needed 
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Yeah - having heard him rant on it about three times now, I knew what he meant. 
Smartphone: Primary function is to make phone calls other other functions of cellular service with additional technology for staying in contact and/or for recreation
If its primary function is not to use cellular services it is then by definition not a Smartphone. My laptop can use Skype to call people but that does not make it even “like” a smartphone is just has a capability to make something similar to a phone call.
If it performs the task differently, then it does not perform the task like a smartphone.
You mean iPhone or iTouch? If so, those are for sale, and a lot cheaper. Best off all? They can call!
My apologies.. you can use a wired headset or bluetooth headset.
Smartphone- select PHONE option, dial number and press call. iPad- select PHONE option, dial number and press call. Both devices use cellular service to connect their call. Both devices are wired headset and bluetooth capable. Seems that these two devices have a lot in common and perform the ‘call’ function pretty alike.
And what device do you make a “phone call” with… that makes Skype and your laptop something that can make calls ‘like’ a telephone. Do I call it a telephone. No. Did I call the iPad a telephone. No. But does the device perform the exact same function ‘like’ a telephone. Yes.
But if the device is capable of using cellular services- would you not agree it can make a call like a Smartphone, even though it is not?
I have no misconceptions of what the primary use of the iPad is… but the fact that it can be used to make cellular telephone calls means it is like every other Smartphone or iPhone. What differentiates this device from all those others.. is it’s size. It’s primary function has been posted by others… the cell ability is just extra money in the pocket for Apple and AT&T.
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Thanks Jai I think we summed it up nicely
Jesus Christ. You are just.. you are just incapable of wit, aren’t you?
Believe it or not, I am. But judging from the thread I thought it was all serious. If this was a thread about Boxxy/Minxxy/etc. or about smugness or some other random thing, I would be glad to have wit.
A remark applicable to pretty much the whole Apple brand as it presently exists.
Despite getting a request to lock this thread, I’m going to leave it open… the discussion’s remained fairly reasonable by GBFans standards, and I bet there’s probably plenty of interesting discussion still left to have.
Edit:
Apple’s new iPad hit by technical glitches leaving users without internet
No comment.
…Just so we’re clear: Can it make phone calls? Before reading this thread, I was under the assumption it could not, but now my brain is all kinds of cluster fu<ks…and not the nougetty candy bar kind.
only with a secondary app like skype while connected to data
it does not have cellular service
Man, we have some big time whiners on this site, even wanting *this *thread locked?
The immaturity level of some users on here really astounds me.
spooky; 500 dollars? Try a little higher. Oh and if you’ve bought the IPad when it came out, then you already know that the Wi-Fi feature is already having connection problems. Just like the I-Phones when they came out. And When they said the first I-pads to come out had the Wi-Fi feature, they only meant the Wi-Fi feature. Want me to repeat that? Wi-Fi feature. Hmmm, didn’t hear the people at the apple store mention phone calls on the I-pad.