28 days later - thoughts on an iPad

I've been backed up on this blog post, partly because of a holiday, then because of an ashcloud, and then because of the ashcloud backlog I've been working through!

That said, before my break I got to spend some time with the ipad, to satisfy my thirst for such things. Much has been said now, but as we (officially) still don't have the iPad here in the UK I think can still share a couple of quick comments. So here goes:

1. Its smaller than you think
2. Its the second screen I've been on about

I'll elaborate a little, as that seems a bit vague. I have spoken to loads of people (UK based people in the main) and pretty much unanimously they were expecting the ipad to be bigger. Not huge, bit big - like a4 (or maybe foolscap as so many would prefer it to be widescreen). But its not, its not at all. As you can see from this picture its pretty small; that book is a5 for comparison. Now, that makes it a little disappointing at first, but the interesting point is that the more you use it the more you realise why.

I've elaborated on this and the other point in a blog post here...