4 Days of iPad

Well I have had my iPad for 4 days, now, here is the good & bad so far for those considering...

Good:

- As pretty much everything apple brings, its sleek & beautiful

- Movies on it are awesome, I watched one on the iTouch on the way to Seattle and iPad on way home, its not even close.

- You can get the Kindle app, and you essentially have a kindle (one of the things I wanted)

- The calendar & mail apps are very well done in general, easy to use and nice improvements

- I bought pages & numbers, they both seem to work pretty well, I was able to import powerpoint & excel files from mail and work on them.

Bad:

- No flags in mail app, I need these bad, come on apple, this should be there by now!

- No printing ability, this is the next killer app, I want suns jini (remember jini) for iPad or something similar, print anywhere (seems like there are some apps for this but none seem to have great ratings yet)

- No network, nothing to do, I was playing with on the plane and without connectivity, its not much fun at all (maybe later after I have more movies and books etc downloaded it would be more fun, but I didnt have time to get much loaded on before the trip home)

- Not enough books on the apple bookstore, surprised by this, figured apple would have been hard working on this, im sure it will be fixed soon enough, but the bookstore is not big enough yet.

- Fingerpints, lots of em

Other things:

- The movies I burned/downloaded for iphone look crappy, need to recode at higher resolution and size

- Anyone have this, looks cool - http://store.apple.com/us/product/IPAD_CASE?mco=MTc0MjU1OTM

- Whats the best way to get my pdf's loaded into ebooks? (I got lots of technical books on pdf, password protected)

Comments

[Srikanth]

Joel,

(How's it going? :-) )

//No flags in mail app, I need these bad, come on apple, this should be there by now!

Can this be done if iPad cannot multitask?

//I want suns jini(remember jini)

Outside of Sun, you are the only one who remembers it. Congratulations.

How is the ergonomics? Can you use it comfortably sitting on the couch? Too heavy for prolonged use? Did you prop it up when watching the movie?

Thanks,

Srikanth

[joel]

@Srikanth - Hey buddy long time no talk great to hear from you, glad someone got the jini reference :)

Ergos are pretty good its a little heavey, im hoping to get that notebook/cover in the article its very cool think it will help cause one of the ways it folds is at a slight angle, that would help.

Yeah flags are simple foreground markers, so that would be easy! But I can say I cant wait until 4.0 comes out !