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Im think perhaps the best use for my old ipad 1 is a mostly dedicate photo album but I cant seem to a decent enough photo album app. It should be simple, fast, easy to dump many many images into it, with folder trees and contact sheet-like display. Any ideas? Perhaps just using something like

My iPad Air Safari crashes perhaps once ever 4-8 hours of use or so. My iPad 1 crashes much more, perhaps every 2 hours of use. it doesnt seem to relate to the complexity of the website and restarting Safari going to the same site never double crashes. I think Chrome on my Android tab is...

Actually I also do have an iPad Air (Xmas present :) ), but its no less of a crime that the iPad1 is purposely and unnecessarily being made useless... I'm not asking for it to run 2014 apps, but I can't even load apps from 2012... Its a direct consequence of the walled garden, single store...

Thanks for your response... While I wasn't expecting a *new* photo app for the iPad1 IOS5, I did expect that there would have been decent photo apps that ran on IOS5 from when it was current, and those apps should run on the iPad1 IOS5, no? so where are they? This is not just a photo app...

really? not a single credible modern photo app that can run on an original iPad? I really didn't see this coming as the reason for obsolescence for older iPads... Hardware still works great, in mint condition...

My ipad1 is getting a little oldy-moldy so I thought to use it as a photo album device. But every decent photo album app I can find cant be run on the ipad1 as they require ios6. So any decent photo album apps that can be used with the ipad1 running ios5? I want to get away from that stupid...

$25??? plenty of choice on ebay for around $5... I think you can also get cables that will allow charging with an external source and simultaneous USB usage (PC, etc)

cellular is probably worse than wifi for battery usage, particularly if you have a weak signal. try turning off your cell radio each night. or switch to wifi.

What I read is that most testing particularly within Apple is now done on iPad2's and so the memory shortage problems on iPad1's are an increasingly common cause of crashes on iPad1's...

I haven't yet upgraded to IOS5, mostly because I'm lazy and I just hate doing anything with iTunes. But now I read numerous reports of IOS5 being not such a good idea for the iPad 1, specifically that memory problems cause Safari to crash very frequently. If its true, I would be very unhappy and...

if you have a non US GSM device then the only US carrier that would have 3G data for you will be AT&T, since Tmobile US uses AWS freq. 1700 for 3g data. TMo would be okay and cheaper for voice, EDGE data and text 1900mhz. You can easily get an ATT sim at their stores, or on ebay.

well only prob is the ipad cannot use tmo aws 1700 3g service... so youll be on edge...

the lastest ipad update incorporates printing... you have to get Bonjour working on your network...

the price comparison isn't exactly fair... for $799 you get 64GB SSD, 2GB RAM (8x more than iPad), and 2 cameras, USB and SD slots and full Windows 7. Price compare the $799 to the iPad 64GB at $699... I think it will sell *some* because of Win7... lots of business and 'vertical' applications...

In my usage of iPad/Safari I find that it "vanishes" about once every few hours of usage, which I assume means that it crashed because I have to restart it and it has generally lost context. So, yes, I believe Safari crashes pretty often, far more often that my experience with, e.g. Firefox or...