{"id":2919,"date":"2010-07-01T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2010-07-01T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:04:14","slug":"what-i-love-about-my-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2919","title":{"rendered":"What I love about my iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve only had my iPad for a week, but I’m loving it.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

So what do I love about the device?<\/p>\n

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  1. It looks so beautiful – sleek and silvery and cool to the touch.\n
  2. When I switch it on, it’s operative immediately – like my iPhone but unlike my PC which takes ages to get going.\n
  3. 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.\n
  4. 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).\n
  5. When I access the web and my e-mail, the 9.7″ screen makes both an absolute pleasure – my iPhone screen now seems tiny.\n
  6. 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.\n
  7. The virtual keyboard (especially in the landscape format) is surprisingly easy to use – much, much better than the iPhone keyboard.\n
  8. 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”.\n
  9. When I show it to anyone, it really impresses – boys and their toys!\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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