iPad Unhyped
Walt Mossberg review for the Wall Street Journal gives a low hype, good detailed view of what to expect from the iPad.
Using an iPad to accomplish as much of his tech as possible, he finds:
- the landscape keypad is useful enough, works great for email
- battery life while watching movies 11 hours plus
- HD video format is not compatible with screen resolution, black space or cropping are choices
- No tabbed browsing in Safari
- Speedy
- Can be used as digital picture frame
- Weather, clock, and stocks, popular iPhone apps are missing
- "by far the best implementation of the newspaper I have ever seen on a screen"
Writing long documents, and viewing flash videos were the two things that would make him pick up one of his notebooks, a lenovo or a mac.
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