Well, I upgraded within around 24 hours of iOS4’s being available on iTunes. The upgrade took quite a while, starting with a backup of the iPhone before uploading the new OS and finally restoring the iPhone.

I do like the new Mail functionality; the ordering of the Inboxes reduces the finger tap count quite considerably. I also like the folders, although that took a little while to get used to: the small icons can still be recognised if you forget which folder has which applications.

But the overall impression is of speed – lack of it! It takes ages to select something like a contact in Contacts. Email messages are not too slow to open, considering what you are doing with a small computer, but some applications grind almost to a halt. GPS MotionX is pretty horrendous, but that goes for any large application.

I might consider downgrading to iOS3 if I weren’t seriously considering replacing the iPhone with 4G ...

Chris

Well, it should be here soon – iPad in the UK, I mean. No doubt there will be a rush for the lovely device, but I am inclined to save my dosh for the new iPhone, later in the year. Whether or not the loss of the protoype in the bar not far from Apple’s place in Cupertino, it is an intriguing mix of performance and functionality. It will be quite a bit faster than my old 3G, and enough of an advance on the 3G(S) to make it worth a good, heavy yearn

Chris

I must admit, it’s an attractive proposition. You have a presentation to make to small group of people; you have your iPad, loaded with said presentation (preferably in Keynote, naturally); and you face it towards your audience and play the slide show.



But I have a MacBook Pro. I have the presentation on that, where I have been making last-minute amendments on the way to the audience. It needs no stand, it has an array of output ports to connect to the AV system at the venue and I already have a remote control with which to make the presentation without having to touch the device itself.

Hmmm ...

However, I do like the iCal display, and that of the Address Book.

Chris
p.s. the image came from the Apple (US) site. cb

I should like to like the iPad. I can see that it might form the basis of a new way of working, or playing, or working and playing. But the price is very important; the Mac Mini is a pretty pricey piece of kit, but the only iPads currently available in the UK are priced at over that. I do hope that the Apple site starts stocking the cheaper iPads at lower prices than that.

The iPad is an aspirational piece of kit; a purchaser is supposed to value the device more because it was pricey. By that token however it had better be useful as well: otherwise there might well be a section on that Internet Auction Site devoted to iPads; and that would be a shame ...

Chris

This is it! I will keep this site up to date, from now on. That’s a Promise, an Easter Resolution, if you like.

And I shall start with a rant about the iPad ...

Chris