iPad

iPad is finally announced a few days ago on Jan 27, 2010. Everyone everywhere is talking about iPad, and I mean everywhere on this planet. It sure has created the biggest buzz I have ever seen since Windows 98. iPhone was exciting, and a very successful product now. I didn't take as much notice at the time as I did for iPad, partly I guessed people didn't know what to expect from Apple for a phone. This time people seemed to have set a high bar for this new product.

I still am not sure why I would buy an iPad at this point. If I carry a notebook already, I would be able to more on a notebook than an iPad. By the way, I do have an iPhone, which is much easier to carry, and can serve as a phone, an email client, a light browser, an e-reader, a camera, and a video camcorder.

However, there is a market for this device. It will KILL all the existing e-reader to-date, and likely gain some of the market for netbooks. I haven't tried the virtual keyboard yet, so I don't know how good it is, and whether it can do for some serious typing. One thing I do find bad for netbooks are how small the keys are, and it is not comfortable typing there.

One thing that I think that it will be cool to do is to marry iPad and Wii, so that we can play some online network games with an interactive input device anywhere.