Bonding With My New 3G iPad
So many reviews have been written about the iPad, it is hard to believe there'd be any unexpected surprises left to discover. But, one of the most delightful things about a new gadget is how you integrate it into your own real life. It is like dating someone new - early on, you don't know how much you're willing to change to discover your soul mate.
It has been a week since I bought my 3G iPad, and most of that time I was on the road, attending the Digital Hollywood conference. I challenged myself to see how much I could rely on just a touchscreen tablet, a real test being the laptop-lugging road warrior that I am, and I left anything resembling a keyboard at home.
Here's what I discovered during some quality time together getting to know each other:
The iPad Increases Your iPhone Battery Life
Yes, you read that correctly. Your iPhone battery life will extend remarkably if you buy an IPad. It is true what you have read that the iPad battery life is amazing. It blows away the iPhone, even with 3G. My iPad lets me do everything I did with my iPhone, and now that I don't do those things any more on the iPhone, my iPhone battery lasts so much longer! It is an unexpected and amazingly cool benefit. I can now make it more than a day on an iPhone charge. And I am using it so much less for web browsing and email and videos and games that I am thinking maybe I should just go back to a great feature phone with a decent camera and a low voice and messaging rate plan.
3G Is Useful, If Everyone Around You Doesn't Have An IPhone
AT&T has provided me with a sluggish and unpredictably unavailable service experience to my iPhone and it is no better with an iPad. I could feel when I was at the airport standing in the security line holding my iPad and waiting to place it in the X-ray tray that I was competing for precious bandwidth with other bored travelers tapping away on their iPhones.
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