Today’s guest post is from Donna Salmons, a freelance writer and social media consultant. Donna lives in Tennessee and strives to reduce her carbon footprint and teach her son how to be environmentally aware and respectful of his environment: They use only CFL bulbs in their home, buy locally produced goods and services, and use reusable bags for grocery shopping, among other things. Donna is also a bit of a geek; she enjoys writing about technology and gadgets at TestFreaks, a global website that provides product information and reviews of hundreds of products (computers, cameras, home appliances, TVs) to consumers.Chances are, if you haven’t been living in a cave during 2010, you know something about the iPad. A finger-friendly tablet from t Apple that runs iOS, the iPad builds upon the smaller mobile devices, like the iPod and iPhone, that have made Apple such a phenomenal success in recent years.
Two key differences set the iPad apart. The first is its size. The iPhone and iPod Touch, with which it shares operating system and a library of applications, have only a 3.5 inch screen. The iPad has a 9.7 inch screen, which means that full-page documents, as well as entire books, are easily readable.
Suddenly a thin tablet with a touch screen, coupled with an impressive run time, becomes a real alternative to the pad and paper. Mass tablets of the past were simply not up to that task.
The second difference is this: I buy an iPad today. Being a big fan of tablets, I have followed their development, and I am even a long time user of the venerable TC1100 tablet. But the actual designs before the iPad were best used with a stylus, and definitely not designed for fingertip operation. Badly wanting a simple tablet designed for human hands, I have watched and anticipated so many, only to see them disappear into the vaporware ethers. The iPad is real. [click to continue…]
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