Review Apple iPad
Today our hero is the most discussed device of the month – the long-awaited Apple iPad.
There are hot discussions on forums and blogs on a subject what iPad is like. A big iPod Touch, Photo frame, flatbed scanner, electronic library. What suppositions have admirers and ill-wishers of the new device not made. Apple itself headed by Steve Jobs presents iPad as a revolutionary device, starting a new class of device.
And now - Apple iPad itself
iPad is made for the Internet. It looses almost half of its advantages without network. But as soon as it is connected to Wi-Fi or 3g, it recovers and suggests million of entertainments. iPad is released in two versions: with Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3g. Both of them have Bluetooth for peripheral device connection and three memory spans are available: 16g, 32g, and 64g. iPad looks very similar to iPhone and iPod Touch, and its size is like NotetBooks. At the same time it is necessary to mention that it is much thinner.
Technical Details
Processor: apple a4 1Ghz.
Screen: 9.7, 1024x768px, touch.
Memory: 16, 32, 64 Gb.
Connection: Wi-Fi, Bluetoth.
OC: iPhone OS.
Working time: to 10 hours.
Size: 243х190х13 mm.
Weight: 680g.
Back panel
Back panel is made of anodized aluminium. It is also used in MacBook producing.
Home button
Home button, which loads main panel, is placed on front panel under the display. This button can be adjusted to double or triple pressing. The former includes search or stereo connection, the later connects to a voice-activated control and ‘white-on-black’ function, or all of them at once.
Right side
There are volume control buttons and a release lever of space sensor (it helps to fix screen focus) on the right side.
Upper side
Lower side
The lower side has a brand slot for charging connection, card reader and other peripheral device. 3g version, of course, has a sim card slot.
Multitouch Technology.
The main peculiarity of the device is its great display. Multitouch technology if not perfect, at least is near it. The device reacts to all your touch immediately and very accurately, making out the slightest nuances. Brightness and image definition quality are provided by ips technology and LED lighting. Their combination provides any angle of image view (field of view – 178o).
Notwithstanding the fact that the surface of display is covered with glass, it isn’t so easily made dirty. It is because of special oleophobic covering, which keep dirt and grease away. You can take ipad with oiled hands and then rub its display against your jeans, the surface will be like new again.
iPad fabulously quickly reacts to space passion. Even at 180o angle it immediately changes an image.
iPad wallpapers
iPad wallpapers can be put not only on blocking screen, but also on the main screen. They can be chosen from a special wallpaper folder or you can put your favorite photo. iPad has 11 main screens. They contain to 180 applications.
Icons
You can place icons as you like.
I’ll begin telling about iPad capacities and opportunities it affords from its functions.
iPad search
Ipad search application is similar to one in last iPhone versions.
Black background.
Apple developers in ipad drew great attention to people with weak sight and dull hearing. Special functions are provided for them. You can change both photo or web pages scale and main menu scale. Icons can be 5 times zoomed in. After all, if you want to improve screen contrast range, you can use the function of representing white text on black background.
For those with weak sight voice-activated control function Voice Over will be useful. It will orally describe the objects you touch.
People with dull hearing can adjust ipad for one ear, so that both channels sound in every speaker. There is also usual and hidden subtitles support.
The survey of the pre-installed applications I would rather begin with App Store.
App Store.
Right this application allows you to install in ipad everything that hasn’t been installed by the Apple developers.Today App Store numbers about 150000 applications for ipad. The search is made both by keywords and category newness and popularity. And now we have to estimate ipad web opportunity.
Work with several pages.
Safari browser works perfectly here. All navigation is made by fingers. For example, double pressing on screen zoom the pointed place, and putting fingers together and apart zoom an image out or in.
If you work with several pages at the same time, for their switching special miniature mode is used.
Traditionally Apple devices do not support flash, but there is a newest HTML5 support, that is going to replace flash.
Mail application allows looking through mail quickly.
All applications are connected. Having got a phone number or a company address by email, you can add it to the organizer at once.
YouTube
iPad has an application for YouTube reel viewing.
Future and present writers will appreciate ease of making notes and a touch keyboard, the size of which is similar to notebook keyboard size.
Businessmen will like the calendar and organizer, their interface was made especially for iPad.
Photo viewing.
Many people, naming iPad a photo frame, show their real respect to its smart application for photo viewing that, by the way, has a viewing mode of the same name: Photo frame. It is incredibly easy to use this application, and image quality is high-level.
Video now has a separate icon. Ipad supports video formats H.264 and MPEG-4. If your films are stored in other formats, they are easy reconverted with the help of numerous converters available in the Internet.
Concerning music, iPad reads AAC, MP3, WAF, AIFF, Apple Lossless. File organization is very convenient, though it differs from iphon or ipod.
And the last pre-installed application is maps, Made on Google cartographic basics. You have an opportunity to take a photo of a certain map beforehand and even in WI-FI blind area you can learn how to go to the place you need.
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Now, having learned about all iPad opportunity you can appreciate its high-capacity accumulator. At WI-FI operating, this magic device can work to 10 hours at one charge.
Like all the other apple, ipad releases caused quite a great stir after presentation. At the result 450000 devices were sold in the USA in 6 days.
That’s all. All we need is to forget about its biting price and order this wonder of engineering.
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