IPad: first glance and reflections on the theme

Schego all began

I will not hide - for iPad me - it's a long-awaited gadget, similar to the iPhone, and the last I followed from the time of only rumors about him. In fact, Apple is the first phone and the first product of this company, interested me. Before, I particularly focus on American curiosities did not pay. Enjoyed PDAs (mainly for reading) in parallel with a smartphone (FS Pocket Loox C550 + Nokia E61i), then I tried to unite them in one device, which has become the people's WM-smartphone Samsung i710, and has already managed to create for himself an opinion about the ideal handheld device, necessary for my needs.

Touch control I liked, but stick to the screen with the stylus - not, as one hand this can be done, which is unacceptable for the phone. Screen is too small at the i710, and the interface is the most unfriendly to the user and "dopilivat" I had to be at least a month. Like gadget without all those nasty little things. iPhone is so and turned. Although at first, knowing what money this magical product is offered in the native land, I tried to forget about it, but as soon as I touch the toy with their hands, all the issues have disappeared - it is necessary to take and I took what then never sorry! What I'm all? In addition, the iPad for me is about the same, only in a slightly different plane. It passed through my hands a lot of all sorts of gadgets, including internet tablet and a portable media player with 5-inch LCD display. Again, I wanted something comfortable and combines these devices. To get their hands on the iPad a quick test, I was finally convinced, as in the past with the iPhone, which is exactly "what the doctor ordered."

Extract

So, in my hands for a while iPad was the first instance, to get to the village, where I have the happiness to live. Moreover, I have acquired a completely sealed unit, which has not yet been touched by the hand of the consumer. Packaging relatively compact, sealed in a cellophane, size approximately half the boxes by 13-inch MacBook Pro, weighty and solid. On the back side there is a label with information about the device, on the sides - branded apples.

On opening the package, I found myself a tablet, an image which repeats the size of the original on the box. Under the gadget hidden envelope with brief instructions and labels, the standard 30-pin cable that is suitable for any portable gadget Apple and charger.

I drew attention to the charger iPad, suggesting that it will be bigger than the iPhone (because there was a lot of talk about the tablet extravagance), but it is not. At the very least, an external memory are identical, but the power is indicated only for the enhancement of the iPad - 10 watts. Experimenting, trying to recharge the tablet from the telephone adapter, I did not, especially since the gadget is well charged and the notebook port.

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Excitement trembling legs and shaking the handle - it's a device that I dreamed last couple of years. I take my hands under control, let up trembling in the limbs and pull this device - th, tyazhelenky. Authorities at least control, as in the iPhone or iPod touch: Home key on the front panel power button is on the upper side, there is a headphone jack (plug it includes also tight, like in a notebook, with a clear-click) on the right side - the volume rocker and the lock lever to the automatic screen rotation, instead of mute. If necessary, turn off the sound, just press and hold the volume rocker. 80% of the front panel there is a 9.7-inch LCD display with expensive and high-quality IPS-matrix (according to experts, the iPad display module half more expensive than the diagonal displays in netbooks and tablets), on the back there is an apple - it is plastic, and probably hiding under an antenna module Wi-Fi.

It seemed that it would be less, but after a couple of minutes to get used to the dimensions of the tablet. Hold iPad in hand, medium-sized convenient, besides it is well balanced, so to speak, in this case. That is, the device does not attempt to fall from the palm of your hand, if you put it in there, and keeps her good, non-slip. Although weighty thing, long hold in one hand, but do not expect that it will have to keep on weight. But if to rest in something, then everything is fine, but the emphasis on later.

Turn

Clicking on the treasured button on the upper face of the device, I saw the familiar bull's-eye in the center of the display, and through a dozen or two seconds of the USB-lace image and iTunes icon, that is, without having to connect to a computer is not do. Connected, iTunes will automatically start mediakombayn and went to a simple procedure with the first setting of the gadget, known to all owners of Apple gadgets. After a few simple steps you can begin to fill the content.

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The first step is a free application iBooks was found good, that there is a US account and it is strange that this program is not supplied. Still, the use of this machine as E-Reader - this is one of its key functions, which has repeatedly stressed Steve Jobs. On the other hand, the lack of complete iBooks gives at least some chance of a third-party software developers with their own programs for reading e-books on competition.

working

Describe the standard software will not, this has been done many times by other reviewers, but focus on what interested me in general, and the sensations of the work with the device in particular. web browser has been launched first of all. I often use the iPhone as Internet Tablet and iPad functionality in this role to me very interesting. To say that I was delighted - it does not say anything. Externally, the browser is not much different from the iPhone-version, but on the big screen and even working with the highest performance, it gives a completely different experience and feel of the work. In general, surf the Internet using the iPad I liked it even more than on a laptop or large PC. I'm not sure that the first generation of devices, competitors will be able to offer something similar. It seemed to me, most of the sites most convenient to surf in landscape mode.

It was then tested built-in pad and screen iPad keyboard. The app itself looks pretty much the same as on the iPhone, but the keyboard is in its size a little inferior to a full-sized notebook's. Printed on it comfortably and on speed dial could be closer to the hardware counterparts, if not one "but" - in Russian layout punctuation is not rendered on the main keyboard. We have to press a single button and hold finger, transfer it to a comma, after which it can be removed, to immediately return to the alphabetic keyboard. If there is some skill all this is done fairly quickly, but still convenient to have on hand the individual keys with the most frequently used characters. In any case, typing letters and small texts can and should be using the onscreen keyboard iPad.

Finally, I run the iBooks and... get in your little fairy tale. I love to read and do it continuously and without interruption from the age of 7, and the last five years completely switched to electronic devices, of which I have already had many. I can safely say - iPad in this regard, better, at least, if the upward belly lying on the sofa, propped on his chest plate. In one hand, it certainly can not be kept long, and two in the air, probably, too - try it out in my opportunities yet was not. The application itself is a beautiful, comfortable, easy-to-use. You can change the font size (10 options), a headset (5 variants), brightness, easy to work with table of contents, bookmarks, navigate through the book, turning the pages, turning them like this tome. iBooks once again proves - if Apple does something, it does it well.

I'm more impressed to read in landscape mode than portrait. When the screen at once two pages that read like real paper book (in portrait page is more similar to landscape mode, I do not much like it). It is difficult to convey these feelings, and, most likely, they are very individual, but reading on the iPad, I felt as a child, when, he ran home from the bookstore with only the acquisition and long-awaited small volume, flopped on the couch for hours he fell into the fantastic world of the book. Of course, compared with other tablet devices for reading electronic books - the result of the pictures below. Paper - "whiter" screen - more display quality - higher sensations - stunned. I note that problems with reading from LCD displays do not feel, my eyes do not hurt and do not watering, otherwise would have had to vote in favor of e-paper.

Speaking of casting books in iBooks. This is done very easily through iTunes. The main thing is to have a text ready to EPUB format, and it is possible and FB2, which is well converted. For the test I used it the last option, and as the software delivered online converter 2EPUB. There is also a great one-button off-line converter, though under Windows - Fb2Epub. Him I have not tested it, but be sure to do it and the results will unsubscribe in the next article, dedicated to the iPad.

I could not resist and downloaded Marvel official app for reading comics, which is passing and the corresponding store. Comic gadget too gorgeous, just like reading a glossy magazine, but also a function of proximity of each frame. Plus once again pleased with the display - an excellent color rendition! By IPS technology I uneven breathing for a long time, and most visited in my own computer displays, including the latest (this is only a TV), built on its basis. Warm colors, the widest viewing angles, good contrast levels. The situation with the iPad, particularly noticeable difference in image quality, when there is the iPhone: lively colors, black - black, the picture softer. But again, all this is very individual. I can only add that the IPS-matrix even in laptops is extremely rare, but about smaller Portativ and say nothing. In this case iPad unique.

It's funny that the complete application is not a calculator, but there is free in the AppStore. As a result, we have a giant kalkulyatorische, but miss the figures difficult.

Had time to test and built-in video player - also works great as in the iPhone, only the screen is bigger, better color rendering and louder speaker, two speakers rather near. It seemed to me, the sound from the speakers is not worse than in the MacBook Pro 13 ", and even more bass - series it is possible to watch without headphones. Here are just a video store iTunes in our region is not, and all of the content will have to encode long and hard. I used a free converter for Windows Xvid4PSP with free same set of K-Lite Codec. The selected profile the AppleTV, only drove resolution with 720p, in what was a TV series, up to 1024x768. 40-minute series of coded hour (processor - Intel Core 2 Duo 3 GHz), a feature-length movie to MKV and c 720p resolution pinched for about three hours, although it may be, this process would take less time without decreasing the resolution to 1024x768 (iPad without any problems pulling 720p, but wanted to see how much to save disk space - 6-gigabyte Full Movies shrank 1.4 GB).

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Games were also tested: Soosiz HD, Labyrinth 2 HD, Blocks Classics and a few others. What can I say - the PSP, which is also available nervously smokes on the sidelines. Large screen, an accelerometer, a mass of cool games, though most of the long and redone with the iPhone. But it will take some time, and will appear projects created just under the iPad - strategy, arcade, kazualki, adventure games. I believe the iPad is currently the most promising portable gaming platform.

It was impossible not to draw attention to the iPad photo album, and forget about the passing of the old paper records. View photos on the display of the tablet - it is a pleasure, especially because the screen is big, can not be compared with conventional photos of 10-15 cm, to switch between the electronic album easily navigate through the photos and find your - yet easier. Now I try the same hurried manner to restore order right inside iPhoto.

Summarize

In the few hours that I was able to work with the iPad, it did not disappoint, and it is now even harder to wait for the ordered 64-gigabyte model. Now - it's gorgeous "Divan" gadget for surfing the Web, media content consumption, reading, viewing photos, playing games. In the future, with the release of new versions of the iPhone OS, the device may well turn into something else, as happened in the past with the iPhone, when an ordinary telephone was transformed into a full-fledged smartphone. iPad and now in certain situations, it may replace the laptop. For example, if you need to quickly respond to the letter (and raise your ass off the couch too lazy), type a few words, to show the presentation. Nevertheless, at present functionality of the device as the tool is very limited. Apple does not want to compete with itself in the market of the same notebook and promote the iPad as a cross between the MacBook and iPhone, allowing it to do so. But times have changed, see what happens in the fall with the release of iPhone OS 4.0 for the iPad, and then a year later, and more ...

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