iPad, first thoughts
Finally I have it. The joy and excitement that comes from unboxing is a thing that all need to experience.
Seeing it there, the glass plate, blackened and reflecting my smiling face, brings a huge sense of pride in ownership. Taking it out of the box it feels heavier than you expect and also smaller. The face is about the size of a standard hardback book.
When it turns on you have to go through the standard first sync with iTunes, choose which apps from your iPhone you want to port over. Much to my dismay though the App store was locked out for me by virtue of it realising I was a UK customer and not a registered US resident. So I am currently only able to experience a cut down version of its offering. But even so it is still something to behold and will easily become the default access point to the Internet at home.
Browsing the web is a joy. Until you see it and use it you just don’t really believe it can be that much different but it just feels so much more natural. Even my non tech friend fell in love with it and was able to access the internet and book flights with no instructions from me (a non iPhone user to boot so was really a first time for him in the OS). His words after were that he wanted one.
As for the issues of typing on it, well I think that will come as the biggest surprise to all- There aren’t any really. You just need to let yourself go and do it. It is surprisingly fast and easy. your brain wants to complicate it but actually it just works. Yes there are the occasional, mistypes but that comes from the keypad being too sensitive if anything. I have written this on the iPad and can really see myself using it for work, not as the default machine but certainly as something that works and is a lot easier to carry around than a laptop.
Sent from my iPad
Oliver Newton is i-level’s Head of Emerging Platforms
