Working through the day with iPAD : Refreshingly positive experience

I have been one of the early adopters of iPAD and as some label me another Apple fanboy. I am sure smitten by the Apple sleek design and polish. Anyhow after the initial excitement had faded, my iPAD was becoming yet another gadget gathering dust other than the occasional desire to read my books on the iBook application. But two days ago, I said let me run with not taking my laptop of my backpack and work through the day with an iPAD. I had this twelve south company compass mobile stand which I neatly placed on my desk and start plugging in. I made sure, I had my read my emails and responded to the ones that needed a follow up or an immediate action. It was a breeze with every minute of my usage improving my typing efficiency. I had to read some RFP documents (typically 100+ page document PDF's) and I was able to open that quickly in the Good Reader application, annotate it and take my notes using the just released multi tasking feature. Out went my follow up email from my notes application. It was a simply a cool feeling. I then plugged on the Pandora online radio and had the music running as I read through an awesome iPAD version of Washington Post. Battery was there throughout the day and I felt my investment in iPAD was not a sunk cost after all. . I have to admit, I did not do a lot of document writing even though I had the Pages and the KeyNote application on my iPAD. Please feel share with your experience of using iPAD in a true productive setting.

iPhone Round Up

I now own the iPhone for more than a pay period. So am I one of those 85% of satisified iPhone buyers as reportd by USA today.I am definitely happy with some of the user experiences implemented by iPhone. Yes it has some quirks and like everyone in the early adopter community there is this hope that these will be fixed in the future versions. But alas, I am a fickle minded gadget adopter and may not be that patient with Apple :). Yes I will be challenged to throw the device aways since it is after all an iPOD if nothing more. It can not be justified as value for money. Well no apple product has been so far in my mind. All apple products are cool and hip and iPhone is no exception. iPhone tries to do some common things in a more cool way and you pay money for that. Well it is not for masses after all!! Steve Jobs thought there are only 3 million people who are worthy of buying his device. It appears 1 million + have found it and you could be one of the remaining. Is it in you?

iPhone Experience : First couple of Days

I am on the iPhone hype wave. Got mine on Saturday. There was not much of a line and the Apple Store experience was good. The apple store person processed my request using his handled and emailed me the receipt. Paperless smooth customer experience, sweet. Apple iPhone activation was a pleasure ride. Everything done in iTunes over the Internet. Within 5 minutes I was using the phone and within 30 minutes i had my phone # transferred and I was receiving calls. The phone User experience is different and like nothing before. It may not be to the liking of a few but a good version 1 of convergence. The convergence of mobile browsing, music, podcast and phone is sweet. Yes I have one gripe. The email thing is not working for me:(. I was hoping to get the Exchange email but no success yet. I am hoping to get a software patch but since it is not even a week old in the industry I will have to have wait longer. But Apple has done a decent job of making people rethink the UI experience on mobile phone. People can argue about the price point but purely on UI convergence experience a definite A++