Answering your #1 question, as fast as we can
Earlier today, we asked you (via Twitter and @ask_tuaw) for your top inquiries about the product everyone's talking about. While we can't give you first-person photos and video -- yet -- we can give you an answer, straight from the lab and the lap, to the most popular question: Can you read iBooks in direct sunlight?
The answer, surprisingly enough: Yes, you can. Even in bright sun, the high-contrast black type on a white page background was clearly legible, says our experimenter. In fact, the display looks quite a bit like the Kindle's e-ink screen under those lighting conditions.
What does not look good in bright sun: video playback. The dark screen doesn't pump out quite enough candlepower to make TV shows or movies easily visible. However, that's a failing of most portable video devices, so you can't ding the iPad for it. Much.
As many have inquired, the screen does hold fingerprints and you can see them most annoyingly in the sun -- but the oleophobic coating means a quick sleeve swipe fixes that.
Our question-answering squad wasn't in a situation to deal with iTunes and networking details, unfortunately, but we'll try to get more on that for you all soon.
