I’ve owned an Android phone for just over a year now; top of the range when I got it with an 8MP camera – well, specs aren’t everything and that phone camera has always been awful (though not as bad as the iPad 2 camera) I decided to be an “iPad tourist” today and took [...]
A couple of great articles on dot-color, discussing and comparing the new iPad display colors with that of iPad 2 … Using the new iPad, particularly next to an “iPad 2,” the reds and greens are noticeably better, but the blues in particular are quite striking. It actually makes the blue on the iPad 2 [...]
Another App that is hugely improved by the “retina” display of new iPad is LogMeIn which allows remote access and control of any PC/Mac from your iPad. I don’t see that LogMeIn has been updated, but it seems to automatically take advantage of the increased resolution to give a much clearer view of my home [...]
iPad, iPad 2, new iPad: iPad is obviously thicker, but iPad 2 and new iPad and close to identical. From iPad to iPad 2 we saw a big decrease in size: But new iPad is very slightly thicker, hardly noticeable – although the weight increase (back to about the weight of the original iPad) is [...]
I’ve seen quite a few new iPad camera comparisons recently, and some have been quite negative … I took a quick shot in my bedroom using iPad 2 and new iPad; yes the lighting is a challenge, but it’s clear here that new iPad wins HUGELY! iPad 2 camera: new iPad camera: Click either picture [...]
I think the newly announced Amazon Kindle Fire will have an impact on the tablet market, but I’m not sure it will seriously impact the iPad … While the Kindle Fire has many less features, it seems that Amazon has an excellent design AND implementation – in direct contrast to all previously released “iPad competitors” [...]
Apple may claim that their very expensive iPad 2 cover is made from leather but it must be made from special “rock Cows” as the leather feels like touch plastic; it’s totally not worth $69. Yes it keeps the iPad 2 screen protected, and yes it’s cool to open the cover and have the iPad [...]
From Morningstar, “Deutsche Bank Puts Motorola Xoom Sales At 100,000 … 100k units after only two months on the market is a decent start” “Decent” is a curious word, “compared with 300,000 iPads sold on the first day it was available”. Motorola rather failed their launch, omitting Flash (one thing that really can distinguish other [...]
One of the things I regularly need to do “on the road” is access my office Mac computer – which also runs Windows XP in a Parallels install; a while back I tried the free Mocha VNC Lite, but there were a few issues. I’ve tried a few other VNC Apps, and settled for now [...]
To compare 3G against my home cable internet speeds, I downloaded Speedtest X; it’s not a great program, but it did give some comparison data. First, a couple of runs on my WiFi iPad – already see there’s some variation from run to run. My cable internet is provided by Comcast and is generally quite [...]
A quick couple of comparison photos, showing iPad and iPhone views of iPadThoughts.net, in landscape and portrait views. You’ll see that the clarity is pretty well identical, but everything is smaller on the iPhone: Here are full scale crops from two photos I took, of the iPad and iPhone together at the same height (same [...]
Following on from iGlaswegian’s video comparison of the iPad and iPhone keyboards, here’s some photo comparisons … First, comparing the iPad landscape keyboard with the current Apple wireless keyboard; it’s easy to see that the iPad keyboard is hardly more cramped, due to Apple’ trick of omitting a number of buttons: Now, let’s compare the [...]
I found iGlaswegian.com today, via this excellent “typing on iPad” video, comparing the iPad to the iPhone: Head to YouTube for a full size viewing experience
