The UPS guy drove up around 2 p.m. My wife was busy preparing a late lunch and besides, she doesn’t get as excited about gear. Regardless, she was excited after I showed her the iPad. Her birthday is next month, but this is her present (at least part of it).
It’s heavier than I thought it would feel. But not too heavy. It took forever to upload all my apps to the device. Then, I realized I had way too many apps! I had to go in adjust fire. The key is not letting your iPad specific apps get lost in the clutter.
There is a huge difference between apps that are designed for the iPhone and those for the iPad. The iPhone apps looks out of place in this big display. I’m sure the iPad apps will catch up in the near future, but I don’t plan on using many of my old iPhone apps on the new device. Apps need to be specifically designed for all the new real estate. You can double the size to fill the screen, but it looks very low-rez!
Small thing, but as my wife if from Korea and sends a lot of emails back to her family in Seoul, it would be nice to get Korean language as an option on the iPad. We have it on the iPhone and iPod touch, you’d think if iPad can do Chinese, it should at least be able to handle the 24 letters in the Korean alphabet! Again, I’m sure that will be in a future software update. We need it Apple!
The Popular Science magazine is incredible! What a great future digital magazines will have in this realm. I cannot wait to see more like this.
My wife watched an episode of Modern Family using the ABC app. She loved it! Actually, she is very excited about her new toy. She started reading a book. It’ll be very handy for her to double tap a word and choose dictionary. As she reads in her second language, she always turns to the dictionary. The iBooks reader app will be a great help to her.
I’ll have more observations later. Bottom line: We are happy with the iPad. I cannot wait for my 3G version to arrive later this month!
