Chris Kettle's Blog

Can’t wait until tomorrow when the ipad is released so i can get this one out in public. At the moment you get a lot of stares and the odd evangelist come up for a conversation and ask what i use it for…so…

Still loving iBooks – reading Seth Godin’s linchpin and its great being able to read a chapter every so often. Would be nice to copy and paste book text which you can’t.

Games. Having a lot of fun with the pinball HD game, flight control multiplayer and scrabble. Sodoku is good. People are most impressed with real racing which is just an immersive experience.

Flighttracker has been good whilst we’ve been away, maps fantastic, really the shirring of content of pictures and video is a really nice experience.

To save iphone battery I’ve found myself using the iPod function for listening to music.

Have been using keynote for wireframes play and touch is going to be a great way to build stuff in the future.

Email is fantastic. Calendar is strange – can’t add an event by clicking on the time of the day – weird.

Can see myself updating blog more often using wordpress.

The iphone app navigation between pages doesn’t really work very well. I find the icons too small and I’m sure this will be changed in future versions.

The other nice thing is its much more social over the breakfast table. Love reading the BBC news app and yes I can see myself paying for a quality publication.

Kids are loving magnetic draw.

Love the battery life.

Would like a Skype and Facebook iPad app.

Looking at the 3G plans I don’t know how it would be possible to use more than 1gb a month.

Realistically as you cant really download files apart from in emails and the only weighty content is video. The odd youtube clip sure, streaming CNN is going to be a crap experience anyway on a 3G network. The quality may be okay on an N95 but i don’t think the networks are up for it perhaps Next G but I wouldn’t get too excited.

If you buy Avatar from itunes and wait two hours for it to download then that will be a costly adventure – I wonder if apple will safe-guard our data plans.

My experience so far is that the pad would be connected on wifi at home and work and having some data whilst on the move would be perfect.

Just need a man-bag to carry it in.