Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:17 pm Post subject: iPad . . . so what or OMG!
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I had the opportunity to spend some hands-on time with the long-awaited Apple iPad tablet after today's much-hyped press event. Unfortunately, I was a bit underwhelmed: I can see a lot of really useful applications for the iPad, but the reality is that it looks and behaves like an iPhone on steroids. And that's not exactly a good thing.
Hardware: Awkward to handle
While the iPad is super slim at only an inch thick, I had some difficulty handling it. At 1.5 pounds, it is too heavy to hold in one hand, which is troublesome if you plan on using it as an e-book reader. Other e-book readers, like Amazon's Kindle 2 or the COOL-ER e-reader, are much lighter in hand and therefore make for a much more comfortable user experience. Using two hands is much more comfortable, but if you're reading a long novel, that could get quite tiresome.
Compared side-by-side, the iPad's 9.7-inch 1024-by-768-pixel LED-backlit display appeared dimmer than my iPhone 3G's. Whites, in particular, looked much brighter on my iPhone. Apple had no comment, however, when I inquired about the difference.
iPad OS: Basically a giant iPhone interface
One of the biggest rumors leading up to the event was that iPhone OS 4.0 would be released in conjunction with the iPad. Instead, the iPad is running iPhone OS 3.2 (which has not been released for actual iPhones yet).
The lack of a fresh, new interface for the iPad is disappointing. There might be some incremental differences between versions 3.1 and 3.2, but to me, the iPad's interface looked exactly like a blown-up version of my iPhone 3G's. And in my opinion, the OS doesn't translate very well from the much smaller iPhone 3G to the iPad. Images, icons, text aren't as crisp as expected on the higher-resolution iPad. It is like watching standard definition on an HDTV; the optimization just isn't there.
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 02:29 pm Post subject:
Au contraire, mon ami. Looks like a winner to me. I held off buying someone who shall be nameless an e-book (Kindle, Nook) device for Xmas until I could see what Steve Jobs had up his sleeve. I'm glad I did.
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