As always, iFixit has started taking apart a new Apple product and of course, it’s the iPad turn today. You can see all the photo gallery here (you may have an heart attack) but what’s most interesting is what they noticed about the battery:
“Confirming our suspicions from yesterday, the battery integrates two separate 3.75V lithium polymer cells wired in parallel for such ample battery life.”
Two lithium cells, for more than 10 hours of battery life. Great job, Apple.
No, you won’t get refunds if you buy it now.
“And the iPad beats even my most optimistic expectations. This is a new category of device. But it also will replace laptops for many people. It does basic computer stuff, like email and web surfing, very well. Applications load quickly and are very responsive – think iPhone 3GS with a 50% speed boost.
That’s what surprised me the most. The iPad isn’t just for couch computing when you want to look something up on Wikipedia or send a quick email. It’s a perfectly usable business device. And the form factor just happens to work far better for cramped places like airplanes than a normal laptop. I doubt I’ll ever open a laptop on a plan again after tomorrow.”
And there you have it.
On a side note, please hope our beloved editor Cody Fink finds an iPad in Charlotte next week. You know, I’d like to change my computing life.
Free in the App Store, I really don’t understand the UI choices. Welcome on board Amazon, anyway.
“Built on the year-old HTML5 Gmail web app for the iPhone, the Gmail for iPad sports a double column display and looks great with whole threads unfurled. “Tablets like the iPad give us even more room to innovate,” the Gmail team said today.”
Looks great.
Dragon Dictation, the popular (and great) text to speech utility for iPhone, has just been updated to an iPad compatible (universal) version. The iPad version obviously takes advantage of the new screen, but it’s basically a raw port of the iPhone one. Available for free here, check out the screenshots after the break.
Available for free here, it’s a 18MB download. As we previously heard, Winnie the Pooh iBook is built in in. We’ve embedded the cover below, as seen from the application’s Resources.
“Find My iPad has the same features as Find My iPhone, including playing the little sonar sound effect with an onscreen message (in case your iPad falls behind the couch or something). Find My iPad also includes the same Remote Wipe feature as Find My iPhone – so if your iPad is irretrievably lost, you can remotely vaporize all the data on it, thus ensuring that thieves don’t get access to your contacts, credit card info, or embarrassing lolcat pictures in addition to your iPad”
