iPad Review

The ipad seemed like a wonderful new addition to the household. But I’d still like to have another laptop instead.

I went to the north end of San Vicente Blvd to shoot some photographs of the clouds this afternoon and on my way back stopped at the Beverly center. There’s a great vantage point off the sixth story for down town. I was about reading to leave and then I saw two window size banners covering apple’s storefront saying the Ipad has arrived.

Basically it’s a big ipod touch with a couple more reading features. The screen was certainly striking and looked better almost any tv I’ve ever seen. A huge beef I have is the bottom. For the iphone 3G+ I can’t believe apple decided to go with the angled bottom. If you set down an old/ original iphone it will not shake or wobble at all, but if you set down a 3g phone it will take a couple seconds to settle. Same deal with ipad: I set the thing down and it took like 2 seconds to stop wobbling. This is really silly if they’re pushing for a on the couch device. Still the backside had the same quality as the first iphone, almost metal looking compared to the 3g plastic look.

So the bottom had the quality metal look of the first iphone, but unstable angled shape of the 3g.

Other than that, I think the gadget is really nice; I’d love to have one and the price point could be a lot worse. Once again Jobs has take a step toward to brave new world.

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