Great design piece, but also showing weaknesses.

I was born out of necessity, spontaneously bought the iPad because the product I Pad was not yet available. It's a special moment when you open the package and perfectly crafted piece of haptic design hugs his aluminum body into their own hands. Is all the greater then the surprise that the package except for a two-piece power supply and a small envelope, simplified in the on individual cards in various languages ​​is: ".. Start to install iTunes and follow the instructions", contains nothing on. This is the total package. No CD, bag, or at least earphones. Accessories None.

"Well, that's just Apple ... But the operation is at least perfect." This idea has almost met the unit. I barely have a device operated whose screen is so smooth and fine to use. Even text input works really wonderful with the onscreen keyboard. Only the position sensor is me too nervous. When I wiggle a bit, the screen is already rotating in the other position.

Now the "work": It's annoying for me that I have apparently no direct access to the storage medium of the pad. I can not load music or movies directly on the pad, but must detour via iTunes. It occurred to me that the common "avi" format is apparently not supported. The Kindle application that I have on the smartphone (Android), proved to be stubborn. I could my downloaded books not just play, but had to download all (thankfully free) again. Annoying seemed also that I am practically every app that I downloaded, had to file with password. Also, the lack of Flash is a greater constraint than is assumed commonly. At least I can thus be very difficult to live.

Overall, I gained the impression that it moves with the Apple device in a closed environment in which nothing comes in, which does not go through Apple. This certainly has some advantages. And if you live in an Apple environment anyway, you know it well otherwise. However, the disadvantages outweigh mE quite formidable. Technically, it is a genuine Cream Pies and you realize every euro you have spent on the perfect feel. But the data handling is a catastrophe for people who do not already know and want to work with the device Apple. That the pad neither a camera even a second for video telephony has been clear in advance and seemed for my area of ​​responsibility does not really matter. But what I absolutely lacked the "back" button of Android devices. The a (mechanical) button is mE a little bit and finger acrobatics I also do not have.

I gave the device directly after a day intense testing back and then wait but rather on the ordered Android device. For my purposes, it was not suitable.