Hi, seems like an eternity has passed since my last post. However I was really away from the tech world building a career for my self. While I am still engaged in a business of my own, I did want to write today.
It’s been over a month and a half since I have been using ipad 2 (3g+wifi 64 GB) here in India. Thankfully I have a good wifi setup at home where I could use and update ipad after my work hours. ipad is an impressive device and very easy to use as well. Once you learn how to get your way around ipad’s app store, itunes etc you might actually end up spending more time on your ipad and less on your notebook.
I have found ipad to be a great device for almost all basic work such as browsing, sending emails. listening to music, watching movies, videos etc However it isn’t a great option for reading books, magazines etc. Long periods of reading on ipad are tiring for a couple of reasons:
1. Screen brightness causes eye fatigue
2. ipad is kind of heavy of holding in hand (esp while travelling and in bed) and reading for a long time
3. Lack of a single store or app for meeting all my book/magazine/newspaper reading requirements
However I’d still give ipad a very high score for all the other things that it can do. Below is a list of various apps I use regularly
Reading
Flipad
Zinio
Kindle
iBooks
News
CNN
NDTV
TOI (Times of India app)
Games
Trade Nations
Contract Killer
Can Knockdown
Overkill
tictac free
Video Player
Azul Media Player
File Transfer
USB Disk
Dropbox
Fitness
Dailyburn
Other Apps
Compass
Truphone
xmarks (bookmark synchronization)
Some of these apps esp the games contain in-app purchases and can be pretty addictive.
3G Usage
I have used BSNL 3G on my ipad and found it to be pretty impressive and fast. I had to cut up my regular SIM into a micro SIM and use it on ipad. However, BSNL now offers ipad plans (prepaid and postpaid). Unfortunately pre-paid SIMs for iPad are currently unavailable and post paid as only one plan i.e. Rs 999/- unlimited
Other players such as airtel, Tata Docomo etc do not seem to have any inexpensive data plans for 3g. I hope they come out with some good competitive plans for 3G data users.
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