On 10 May, the Apple iPad became available for online ordering. We ordered one immediately as AINEO has had requests to develop applications as well as received calls from our partners on AINEO Secure regarding set up and use the service. The Apple iPad arrived on 28 May. Instead of the delivery man saying, You’ve got a package, he said You’ve got an iPad. People have been very excited about the iPad.
We have tested the iPad with AINEO Secure and have some comments about its use.
-The iPad is a great always one device that you can use to access your email, contacts, action and other great services of AINEO Secure or any other MS Exchange compatible server.
-It is not a true replacement for a laptop (notebook) PC. The keyboard is hard to use and there is no such thing as blind touch unless you buy and exterior keyboard
-The battery life is amazing. On an airplane, if you have ripped some of your DVDs with HandBrake or some other software, you can watch your DVDs for hours.
-The speaker and microphone are good and work very well as another phone through the Skype service.
-In direct sunlight, it is very difficult to see the screen, but inside the iPad has a beautiful LED display.
-There are many good applications available for iPhone. Some of our favorites are
Dictionary.com- Access to English word definitions on the go
Facebook- Keep up with the social networks
iBooks- Hundreds of royalty free classic books to read when you have time.
NewsPro- From Thomson Reuters
Olivetree- Great study tool.
Keynote- Great for showing your company presentations to your clients
-The browsing interface on the iPad is wonderful. The built in keyboard is more that able to cover all your browsing inputs, touches, drags, pinches, and so forth.
Overall, we are very impressed with the iPad. It is more a viewer than an input device. The battery life is excellent; the display beautiful, and the processor speed is very fast. Input is a bit tedious so it is not something you would give to a road warrior type of person as their main laptop. However, it is excellent presentation tool. We are thinking to give iPads to our sales consultants as they deal with our partners and friends because it is a very natural way to present information to others.
Please contact us if you have any questions. We would be delighted to give you more feedback.