Preliminary report – the iPad is fracking amazing!  Screen is beautiful, and some of the apps I’ve played with so far really use touch well.

The iBook app comes with one book apparently – Winnie-the-Pooh.  A great move on Apple’s part.  Why?  Because it has very nice watercolor illustration throughout.  They look wonderful on the iPad, and it’s a direct poke at all the monochrome e-book readers out there.

Saddest result so far of playing with iPad is I’m loving my iPhone just a little less.

One very obvious thing so far: all apps MUST be converted to run on iPad.

So, just had a bunch of movies denied for DL to iPad based on format.  Sort of a surprise, since they should all play on AppleTV, and I was expecting the iPad to support those same videos.  Need to investigate further…

I am a bit concerned that the iPad seems to need a 10W charger.  Hooking it directly to my Mac lets me sync, but not charge.
All the iPod and iPhone chargers seem to be 5W.

The “Picture Frame” mode changes images too quickly (as in, not shown for a long enough period).  Don’t see any way to adjust that.

Puzzlers:

1. 1)MobilMe iDisk and MobileMe Gallery don’t appear to be iPad ready.

2. 2)No “Clock” app

3. 3)No “Stocks” app


Not Clear On The Concept:
ABC TV app, which looks cool otherwise is portrait orientation only.