People weren't entirely sure what to make of the first i-pad, and with good reason. It's a really clever piece of technology, but it seemed to be creating a niche for itself instead of actually addressing an area that people wanted. It's not portable enough to really be a i-phone, or sound enough to be a 'real' computer that you can use for extended periods of work. And as a large portable entertainment device it seems a bit gawky and embarrassing, leaving you little room to hide from fellow commuters.
So is the i-pad 2 cool? The stats are impressive. One of the most compelling of these is the sheer power of the little decide. A duel core setup with two A5 processing chips is enough to make any tech hipster's mouth water, and it means that the pad can now run much more graphically impressive games as well as be generally better at the surfing and multitasking demands that you'd expect of a smartphone device. It also means higher quality on video feeds, which is one of the main selling points of the pad as a commendations device.
The specs also show that the new pad is thinner and lighter, which addresses those qualms about how truly portable it is, and the new smartcover kind of assuages the worries about it now being able to be a real computer. Despite sounding incredibly lame, the smartcover is more than just a sleeve to keep your screen clean. It's a flexible magnetic strip that's sturdy enough to use as a stand for some serious work.
Where things get less cool are the way that the phone is being pitched on say, Apple's website. The device is capable of real-time video chat, which is fantastic, and the duel camera setup of the pad 2 makes this even more impressive, but calling this 'facetime' seems hilariously uncool. Are we to call typing 'handtime'? Surely it's enough to put 'i' in front of everything. Also the fact that they're shamelessly trying to force the fun makes for suggestions like chatting 'in the middle of a friend's party or with your family on the sofa.' This is so uncool it's depressing.
So yeah, if you forget about the fact that it's being forced on you as 'fun' it's actually a really impressive and cool gadget.
So is the i-pad 2 cool? The stats are impressive. One of the most compelling of these is the sheer power of the little decide. A duel core setup with two A5 processing chips is enough to make any tech hipster's mouth water, and it means that the pad can now run much more graphically impressive games as well as be generally better at the surfing and multitasking demands that you'd expect of a smartphone device. It also means higher quality on video feeds, which is one of the main selling points of the pad as a commendations device.
The specs also show that the new pad is thinner and lighter, which addresses those qualms about how truly portable it is, and the new smartcover kind of assuages the worries about it now being able to be a real computer. Despite sounding incredibly lame, the smartcover is more than just a sleeve to keep your screen clean. It's a flexible magnetic strip that's sturdy enough to use as a stand for some serious work.
Where things get less cool are the way that the phone is being pitched on say, Apple's website. The device is capable of real-time video chat, which is fantastic, and the duel camera setup of the pad 2 makes this even more impressive, but calling this 'facetime' seems hilariously uncool. Are we to call typing 'handtime'? Surely it's enough to put 'i' in front of everything. Also the fact that they're shamelessly trying to force the fun makes for suggestions like chatting 'in the middle of a friend's party or with your family on the sofa.' This is so uncool it's depressing.
So yeah, if you forget about the fact that it's being forced on you as 'fun' it's actually a really impressive and cool gadget.
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