For those with iPads, can you do internet banking on it?

What I would like to do is be able to access my account and balance my checkbook off of it; set up online bill pay through my bank; and anything else.

I don't know if 5/3rd has an app for the iPhone/iPad...can't seem to find it on their site if they do.

How are magazines/newspapers on the iPad? As good as the print copy?

For mobile banking, IGG has something called iBank, designed for Mac and mobile. Check out: http://www.iggsoftware.com/.

I don't balance checkbooks on it, but I do access several bank accounts via iPhone apps.

News/Magazine apps vary wildly. I really don't read magazines anymore thanks to the Internet, but for news you might just want to look into RSS. Reeder is an amazing RSS app for the iPad.

Of course you can still download specific news apps like ABC, CBS, and USA Today, etc.

John, A fellow Professor came in Tuesday night to show me her iPad with a biology e-textbook. It was awesome... the textbook company only gave her 1 chapter to try; it was on cell biology and it looked JUST like the paper copy BUT ....

it had links built into the text so for example when they mention cell division ... click and VIOLA ! it takes you to a YouTube (or another source) of video and you can watch cells divide... click back on the eBook and continue reading. THAT's very powerful stuff. Plus, it's what we call a "living document" updatable in a matter of minutes instead of waiting 2-3 years for the next edition cycle- by that time, the news is "old hat" !

I've decided to buy the next version of iPad... really cool! Wonder when iPad 2.0 will debut ?

Right David and to me thats a big Plus.

Also I get the same Live Content, from even PDF files.

I just cannot understand why Apple and even MS cannot or will not apply the same attributes in their email apps? ?

David, I see the iPad as a HUGELY successful student device replacing even the laptop! Imagine never having to purchase another $100 book and the amount of paper they save.

I know we will get a version 2, it's the waiting that's killing me! heheh

Steve,
not sure what you are talking about re: email. You can put links in an email. Can you be more specific?

Maybe you then can educate me on how to do this. Same link.

Here at the forum

Verizon link

Apple email and OutLook Express

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-16...are-debuts.html

When fashioning business emails and trying to included supporting links has been a pain in the buut

Yes and I can envision publishers selling time-limited textbooks.. i.e. instead of paying $100 for an eTextbook, you pay $50 and have it for 6 months (1 semester). After that it expires and is no longer active. pretty cool !

I think paper texts will be totally dead in 3 -5 years and in the next 2-3 there'll be > 50% adoption of eBooks. The main limitation now is the cost of the e-device i.e. iPad. Kindle better get color quick if they want to compete, or they're DOA !

Yeah and the wait is killing me too !

But, David, unlike a paper book, if you want to "search" for a word or something -- you can. Try that with a hardback!

ebooks have some disadvantages, probably, but are outweighed by the AdvantageS.


Debut? Some say by xmas, others say first quarter next year. I can wait now.



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