iPad First Impressions, Pt. 1

I bought mine at the 5th Avenue Apple Store this morning and it’s been running all day without letup; WiFi and Bluetooth, iTunes sync, music, videos, browsing, email. The battery is about gone. Finally. Over 10 hours. My shameless first impressions on Mac360:

The iPad’s Mail app surprised me. The onscreen keyboard is much easier to use than I expected. Plunk the iPad in your lap in landscape mode, touch to create a new email message and the keyboard pops up. It’s wide, with much, much larger buttons than the iPhone version, but you get the same auto-suggest-correct options. I wouldn’t want to compose a 30 page report on the iPad’s onscreen keyboard, but it’s not a laborious effort to type email or write text.


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