Friday, March 26, 2010

The Apple iPad Tablet

By Merlina Linx

The iPad is selling like hotcakes -- an estimate of 2000 units per hour. The people who buy the iPad all have a wide range of interests. Some buy it for gaming, some buy it just to be the first on the early adopter train and some are still undecided whether they should invest in one. This article will examine the iPad as an eReader device and it will list the pros and cons of using the iPad as your main eReader.

You see, you get to see, touch and interact with your emails in a way that has just never been possible until now thanks to its interactive 9.7 inch touch screen. It's innovative, looks gorgeous and enables you to see everything in crystal clear, vivid colours and sharpness.

The only downside to this is that the ability to read a multiple range of formats is not built in. One must buy an external App for this. Do not like paying for an app that does what should have been present on the iPad by default? The iPad comes with an iBooks app. This is an.epub based store, which is so far supported by Penguin Books, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan Publishers, and Hachette Book Group USA.

The advantage of using the.epub format is that there is support for "interactive books". One can rotate images, watch videos and even communicate with other user, all while reading a book. If you are visually impaired, the iPad iBooks app can read books out loud for you.

Sure you may have to subscribe to a couple of magazines and take a few surveys, but in the end you'll get your free iPad. This is where Apple is genius. Instead of spending millions on TV ads, they are approaching this launch in other ways.

The iPad also doesn't have a native pdf/doc/cbr/ppt viewing app and spending money on what should have been a default feature can be an annoyance.

Oh and if you want to send someone pictures via email yourself using your iPad tablet you can do that as well because the iPad has a built in Photos app which makes this a doddle to do. No more messing around. It saves you time which means you'll have more time to download useless iPad apps and while away those hours on a Friday afternoon in the office!

Instead, if the iPad succeeds in gaining market share, but also growing the tablet pc market, then it will be far ahead of any competitors, just as the iPhone is today.

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