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Sunbathing iPads?

July 28, 2010 10:31:57.071

I wonder about the lawsuit claiming that iPads should work better (i.e., not overheat) in the sun - take this rationale from PC World:

This may actually be a very real problem, especially since the iPad is designed for e-book reading and casual computing--a very plausible time to use your iPad would be outside or at the beach.

There's one huge problem with that theory - go out in the sun and just try to read on the iPad. For good or ill, the LCD screen is just not an optimal solution for outdoor reading. Heck, the recent beach ads that Amazon is running for the Kindle play off of that reality.

Maybe the iPad shouldn't overheat as quickly as some claim it does in the sun, but seriously - you aren't going to be using it in the sun anyway.

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posted by James Robertson

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Re: Sunbathing iPads?

[anonymous] July 28, 2010 11:29:22.347

I found out the hard way that the iPad doesn't play nicely with polarized sunglasses, either. The screen just turns black.

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