And what an amazing battery - I've been using it basically all day (on and off but quite heavily since 10.30 in the morning) and it's still at 49%!If I have one complaint, it's that it's a pain in the arse to read the Doctor Who thread on it as every time I open a spoiler tag Safari jumps to the top of the page for some reason and I have to finger it (ooer) all the way back down again. This gets very old very fast. But heck, if that's all I have to complain about it's a good sign!
Finding myself agreeing that it's a heavy beast. I didn't believe it even after handling it, but after using it for a day you can really tell. But this is where the official case is great, due to all the different ways you can prop the thing up, it basically makes up for it. Especially in that position where it looks like an Amiga 600 or something from around that era
Oh and my beer gut has come in quite handy as well. But yeah that case is brilliant.. it's designed to be left in there (hence people's complaints about it being too much work to remove casually) and why not - it's a really tidy fit that adds almost nothing to its thickness. Brilliant.I've seen the wifi indicator blink off for about half a second every 15 mins or so, not sure what that's all about but I'm sure it'll be fixed in a software update and I've not noticed it actually affecting anything.
Loving the following apps:
Mental Note - combined text, pen, photos and voice notepad that can be emailed as a PDF. I was looking for one that emails something I can copy/paste from rather than just an image of the text, and it delivers. The popular PaperDesk only sends a screenshot, in fact I find PaperDesk as a whole quite lacking at the moment (you can't even delete a page from a notepad, only the whole pad!) and way overhyped. Mental Note is not perfect, not as pretty, not as well organised and not free but functionally far better IMO and I can see myself using it a lot at work.
Magic Piano - from Smule, the people who gave us Ocarina. Had lots of fun with this!
Jampad - also fun to have a little tinkle with. BTW I'm not even remotely a musician. But these apps really draw out some sort of hidden enjoyment of music creation.
Tap Tap Radiation - I love the Tap Tap games so it's a given.
Dictionary.com - doesn't need a connection as it's a 45MB database. Excellent.
PCalc Lite - the only half reasonable calculator I've found so far.
Twitterrific - full circle. I moved away from this on the iPhone because it essentially became abandonware and Tweetie was in constant development. Now Tweetie seems to be abandonware thanks to Twitter buying it to death, but Twitterrific has picked up again (yay!). Very nice implementation.
Articles - okay it's only really a customised version of Safari that is restricted to Wikipedia. But, much like the iPad can be viewed as a customised tablet that is restricted to the iTunes Store, if you see it purely like that you don't "get it". It's a joy to use (and to look at).
Spawn HD - if you liked the iPhone one. Same thing but bigger. So... hypnotic....
1password - a fine example of how to do an iPad app properly, and not just make it a high resolution iPhone version.
IMDB - as above.
Labyrinth 2 - I hadn't tried version 2 on the iPhone. Wow, all those "complications" really take the game to a whole new level of fun!
Just to balance it out, apps that I think are overrated:
Evernote - I used to love this on the desktop, but they screwed around with the interface and made it a pain to view your list of notes in a useful manner IMO. They've done the same with the iPad app. Shame. OTOH I still use it because it's the only cross-platform syncing notes thingy that I know of at this time without arseing about with a clunky web interface. Everything else is either iP* only, Mac only or a combination of the two, never including Windows which I have to use at work.
Adobe Ideas - I have to find a photo in order to create a 5 colour palette, and other than that I'm on my own with the colour picker and can't just pick one and say "put in this palette position"? Sorry but that's just... broken. The interface isn't very "Apple" either, and not particularly intuitive. I do like the way it smooths out my doodling (I like it a lot!) but the first version is painfully obvious as a first version. Has potential for V2.
Beatwave - Great fun creating "music"! ..... for about 5 minutes.
Doodle Buddy - nice concept but PLEEEEASE let us turn off the sound effects. And if you've invested in Sketchbook Pro... well you wouldn't bother.
PaperDesk - as discussed above.
Anyway so... it cleans up easily enough with Microfiber. It's kept me playing with it all day. Speaking of playing with it, the porn experience is quite different when you get to pinch at titties to make them bigger. Love love love, worth every penny!
