What I love about my iPad
I’ve only had my iPad for a week, but I’m loving it. I took it for its first outing when I attended a meeting of the Ofcom Advisory Committee for England and found that, only a month after the device was launched in the UK, I was one of three colleagues using one at the meeting. I’ve downloaded the Pages app for word processing so I used my iPad to take notes of the meeting instead of using my usual paper notebook.
So what do I love about the device?
- It looks so beautiful – sleek and silvery and cool to the touch.
- When I switch it on, it’s operative immediately – like my iPhone but unlike my PC which takes ages to get going.
- The battery life is apparently about 10 hours – my Ofcom meeting was six hours, I had the device on almost all the time, and I’d only used 60% of the life.
- It’s true what Apple states that I already know how to use it – the interface is essentially the same as the iPhone that I’ve had for two and a half years now (and anyway it downloads the text of the User Guide when you first activate it).
- When I access the web and my e-mail, the 9.7″ screen makes both an absolute pleasure – my iPhone screen now seems tiny.
- The word processing facility means that I don’t need my paper notebooks anymore, I will have all my meeting notes with me, and I can search them electronically.
- The virtual keyboard (especially in the landscape format) is surprisingly easy to use – much, much better than the iPhone keyboard.
- There are hundreds of thousands of apps and I’m only just beginning to experiment with things like PressReader which enables me to access over 1500 publications including the “Guardian”.
- When I show it to anyone, it really impresses – boys and their toys!
July 1st, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I would love to try one of those out.
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:06 pm
OK Roger, I won’t think of Boys and their Toys anymore. Just be pleased you are so happy about your birthday present to you.
LOL Mavis