The Wife went out and treated herself to an iPad today. She was able to cash in on some bonus rewards through work and get some Best Buy gifts cards to take care of the purchase. Nothing too fancy (a funny statement considering the context), meaning no LTE and minimal memory. I had to help her get it setup on our network for email and various other login accounts.
I won’t bother with a review, since it’s been done in plenty of other places. I will say that the display is very impressive, but didn’t blow me away like I expected. I suspect the Nook had something to do with this. Not that it’s a retina display, but it’s still very good and when held at arm’s length, pixels aren’t exactly obvious. But then, it’s not a totally fair comparison because there’s no camera and the app selection is a bit more limited. Regardless, the display didn’t impress me as much as I expected.
One app I will comment on is Star Walk which the Wife installed this afternoon. It’s one of those apps that shows and labels the stars when pointing the iPad at the sky. The Wife took the boy out back and worked with it a bit, then the lass and I got a turn. We were able to pick out Mars, Jupiter and Venus, as well as a slew of constellations. Very cool.
I’ll be curious as to how much the Wife uses it versus her laptop. I’m guessing it’ll become a pretty normal part of her routine.
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The NEW iPad or iPad II ???
Looking at one myself ….
New iPad…I am having fun playing with my new toy.
Very cool…it is a really handy catch-all device and you will probably be attached to it at the hip in a very short period of time!
I am sure you have already asked yourself how you used to type/read emails and surf on the iPod for all these months!
I think that the administrator of this blog should design and release a SAHD App for IOS and Android…time to take this thing to the next level.