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AppAdvice is once again pwning the iPad section of the iTunes App Store, this time walking us through 700 iPad-specific apps just release by Apple. So if you were worried you’d have no new, full-scale apps to play with come Saturday, set your mind at rest. The only question now is how many will be triple-A-for-awesome level apps?
Video after the break!
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The first reviews are in, and now we’ve got a real live iPad unboxing vidoes courtesy of British national treasure, Stephen Fry and Mac luminary Andy Ihnatko.
Enjoy them after the break!
[via Macworld and TWiTLive.tv]
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Looks like Apple did indeed ship pre-release iPads the few, the proud, the mightiest of mainstream media last week and now the first reviews have just gone live. (And yes, that’s probably why the iPad App Store leaked). Who has them and what do they think?
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal says it’s “pretty close” to a laptop killer. He also got 11:28 of battery time on it!
After spending hours and hours with it, I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from Apple has the potential to change portable computing profoundly, and to challenge the primacy of the laptop. It could even help, eventually, to propel the finger-driven, multitouch user interface ahead of the mouse-driven interface that has prevailed for decades.
David Pogue of the New York Times actually writes two reviews, one for the more tech-centric critics and one for the more positively inclined mainstream.
The techie review is decidedly negative:
The bottom line is that you can get a laptop for much less money — with a full keyboard, DVD drive, U.S.B. jacks, camera-card slot, camera, the works. Besides: If you’ve already got a laptop and a smartphone, who’s going to carry around a third machine?
The mainstream review is more positive:
The iPad is so fast and light, the multitouch screen so bright and responsive, the software so easy to navigate, that it really does qualify as a new category of gadget. Some have suggested that it might make a good goof-proof computer for technophobes, the aged and the young; they’re absolutely right.
Ed Baig of USA Today says it’s a winner.
The iPad is not so much about what you can do — browse, do e-mail, play games, read e-books and more — but how you can do it. That’s where Apple is rewriting the rulebook for mainstream computing. There is no mouse or physical keyboard. Everything is based on touch. All programs arrive directly through Apple’s App Store. Apple’s tablet is fun, simple, stunning to look at and blazingly fast.
Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun Times says the iPad is pure innovation and one of the best computers ever.
The most compelling sign that Apple got this right is the fact that despite the novelty of the iPad, the excitement slips away after about ten seconds and you’re completely focused on the task at hand … whether it’s reading a book, writing a report, or working on clearing your Inbox. Second most compelling: in situation after situation, I find that the iPad is the best computer in my household and office menagerie. It’s not a replacement for my notebook, mind you. It feels more as if the iPad is filling a gap that’s existed for quite some time.
Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle says the iPad is better than expected.
It turns out the iPad isn’t as much a laptop replacement as I thought (though it could easily be used as one). Instead, it’s an entirely new category of mobile device. For example, now when I want to surf the Web from the couch or back deck, the iPad is the device I choose. Starbucks? Same thing. Think of the iPad as a new arrow in your technology quiver, an arrow that will often be the best tool for a given task.
Tim Gideon of PCMag says the iPad just makes sense.
When you combine basic-but-essential work tools with iWork, an improved browser, e-mail, iPod, and photo applications, a well-executed e-Book platform with iBooks, and throw in thousands of downloadable apps and games, and package it all in a gorgeous, slim slate with a beautiful 9.7-inch touch screen, you have yourself a winner.
Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing says the iPad is a touch of genius.
Flick the switch and the novelty hits. Just as the iPhone, Palm Pré and Android phones scratched an itch we didn’t know we had, somewhere between cellphone and notebook, the iPad hits a completely new pleasure spot. The display is large enough to make the experience of apps and games on smaller screens stale. Typography is crisp, images gem-like, and the speed brisk thanks to Apple’s A4 chip and solid state storage. As I browse early release iPad apps, web pages, and flip through the iBook store and books, the thought hits that this is a greater leap into a new user experience than the sum of its parts suggests.
They all noted drawbacks, of course, mainly the lack of multitasking, Flash, and pretty much the same negatives that are still attached to the iPhone or are typical of 1.0 devices. Still they sound mostly positive, almost exalting at points.
Give them a read and let us know — did any of you iPad holdouts have your mind changed by the media heavyweights?
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Powerpage.org cites a Wall Street Journal article reporting that Apple has worked with AT&T to "rejigger" how the iPhone works with AT&T's towers, resulting in a reduced load for some tasks. It was not clear what changes were made, but apparently a "crash course in wireless technology" allowed them to figure out how the iPhone can get along better with AT&T.Apple tweaking iPhone to work better on AT&T's network originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you pre-ordered your iPad for April 3 and ponied up the extra money for expedited shipping, 9to5Mac reports that Apple is giving you a refund. Since all iPad Wi-Fi deliveries will occur on the same day, the more expensive shipping option made no sense. Nice to see Apple making right one that, isn’t it?
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