Apple iPad first hands-on! (update: video!)

Here it is folks, the Apple iPad. The screen is gorgeous, tilting is responsive, and the thing is super thin. Still, if you've used the iPhone before -- and you can see the two devices side-by-side here -- there's not a lot of surprises here so far. Here are some initial thoughts on the iPad:

• It's not light. It feels pretty weighty in your hand.
• The screen is stunning, and it's 1024 x 768. Feels just like a huge iPhone in your hands.
• The speed of the CPU is something to be marveled at. It is blazingly fast from what we can tell. Webpages loaded up super fast, and scrolling was without a hiccup. Moving into and out of apps was a breeze. Everything flew.
• There's no multitasking at all. It's a real disappointment. All this power and very little you can do with it at once. No multitasking means no streaming Pandora when you're working in Pages... you can figure it out. It's a real setback for this device.
• The ebook implementation is about as close as you can get to reading without a stack of bound paper in your hand. The visual stuff really helps flesh out the experience. It may be just for show, but it counts here.
• No camera. None, nada. Zip. No video conferencing here folks. Hell, it doesn't have an SMS app!
• It's running iPhone OS 3.2.
• The keyboard is good, not great. Not quite as responsive as it looked in the demos.
• No Flash confirmed. So Hulu is out for you, folks!

Update: We've got video, head after the break to check it out!

Apple iPad hands-on

Apple iPad hands-on, part 2

[cellmate27 Posted Feb 23rd 2010 2:09PM]

A humorous list of the top 10 Books perfect for an iPad:
http://lalawag.com/2010/02/23/top-10-books-perfect-for-the-ipad/

[Emjay Posted Mar 26th 2010 11:55AM]

No flash, seriously (W0W). When Adobe bought Macromedia Flash Inc. now they are using it passive aggressively against Apple & vis Versa, even with Microsoft.
A word for Adobe:: "when you buy a company, don't monopolize on patents that you yourself had nothing to do with"....

[adisapir Posted Mar 31st 2010 2:25PM]

iPad = iPhone "XL" > http://bit.ly/d3lYiw

[rfielder Posted Apr 1st 2010 8:55AM]

What most you guys forget is that people here are gadget geeks, the common consumer just wants something that does the basic day-to-day tasks easier and faster then anything else on the market. Thats why Apple are always winning these days. The iPad is not a Netbook, it's not made to be, but it's going to sell much more.

The worse thing a company can do is squeeze a desktop OS in a device like this, well done Apple for the effort of writing a custom iPhone OS version, and I'm sure more functions are to come this summer with iPhone OS 4.

[dimipa Posted Apr 1st 2010 9:13AM]

it's very cool!!!i want one!! not right away, most likely in a few months!!

[JakeInDC Posted Apr 2nd 2010 1:59AM]

c'mon, everyone knows this thing is a POS. Apple who are you trying to fool?