Actually perfect if not there ...

The feel: the iPad feels very high quality and the processing is, except in my case two small scratches in the aluminum, perfect! The one with the scratches is a typical Apple prob, my MacBook Pro and MacBook Air also had what. Fortunately not too bad, I'm just wondering every time what the do with the parts.

Although I have read many times before buying that it is surprisingly hard, but thought that it would not disturb me. That argument can not so what I'm straight to the first major point of criticism: In order to operate with one hand, it is just too hard and too big for two hands. Ideal would probably 7 "have, then you would hold it comfortably in both hands and can operate with your thumb. So you have to embrace what is tiring in the long run continuously.
If you hold it crosswise, the keyboard is wider, so that you hit the keys better. Ten-finger writers will probably not get their money, but I think that one is thus still halfway cope after a short familiarization period. As fast as on a proper keyboard you never will, but for short emails or Facebook messages it will certainly rich.
Another problem is that you can not take clever device. If you put it on the table in front of him, can I watch it at an angle from below and you move it during operation. So you have to vornen something (eg a book) inferior, then you can quite comfortable working with it. More enjoyable can be but work with it when sitting on the sofa and the iPad has in her lap. Lying on his back, but you have the problem again, that it's too big too heavy and for two for a hand. So it's not easy to find a position in which can really serve well the iPad.

Another really big disadvantage is the extremely highly reflective display. I myself have an iPhone and MacBook Pro but there bothers me the specular Disply rarely. When iPad but you have to always put on full brightness and choose a bright background to at all be able to recognize what the display! Outdoors I have not yet used, but I think there will still be significantly worse.
Of the colors, contrast and viewing angle dependence is but one of the best displays I have ever seen! I very much hope that in the near future an affordable film comes on the market, the anti-reflective coating the display, so can in fact hardly work with it.
Also, I've been through the highly reflective display somehow always feel I would keep a digital picture frame in her hand. Is not bad just a strange feeling which will have a place in time but surely.

Now that I've known in my opinion, the biggest drawbacks I come to the advantages: The battery lasts forever really, I have surfed this morning about an hour with it and he still shows 96% stake. This then goes though soon quite fast down (particularly precise, the display does not), but after I played around all day yesterday (6-7 hours) so that the battery was in the evening at 60%. Would say that it is at least twice as long as the holding of my iPhone 3GS (where that is about 9 months old).
On my approximately 1 year old computer, the iPad does not charge by the way, but at my MacMini of of 2007.

For software: After I synced the device with my old iPhone apps, I was first surprised by the fact that the apps on the iPad does not start. This is not because they would not run on the iPad, no, Apple has simply prevented that apps that were purchased in the German App Store, launch on the iPad. Although I assume that this will change with the iPad launch in Germany, but it hinterässt an unpleasant aftertaste.
Although I had a US account, but no credit as it was, so I first installed a few free apps. Unfortunately, the selection of Apps for iPad's is by far not as large as for the iPhone and many Apps are also significantly more expensive.
Also a pity, I find that many apps that are already included for the iPhone on the iPad lacks, such as weather, stocks, calculator, clock and voice memos, so one has to look for third-party apps.

The operating system itself reacts very quickly and a lot of things that have become almost boring to make a normal computer, the iPad suddenly really fun as surfing, look at pictures, Google Maps and StreewView etc. It is by operating with the fingers just a very different feel and act as photographs by the extremely good display again quite different. From the viewing angle I was pleasantly surprised, you can sometimes three, four or five on the iPad images and watch all see something else.
Is unusual that the Delete button at the top iPad and the iPhone is down so that you do (if you have an iPhone) still often make a mistake at the beginning. Außedem you look often after key as the keyboard changes, depending on the input field, as did the icons on the home screen. In portrait mode, for example, the video app in the beginning of the second row, in landscape mode it is at the end of the front row, so that the apps often only "looking" needs.

Conclusion: The reflective display makes it work in some situations impossible, the unit is too large to make it comfortably with two hands to operate and difficult for a hand. The display quality itself, the viewing-angle dependence and the battery life and the operating system are for a dream, so it has left me with mixed feelings. I just hope that there will soon be an anti-reflection film and I-the-iPad-like right-hold problem I've found a solution for, because then speaks in my opinion nothing more about it.
I can but each only to advise it to take time in the hand and play around with it. It's ersaunlich how much fun it is in the ground !!