Gadgetory

Ryann song here with cnet.com and yes in my hand this is the iPad and I've got to tell you that it does feel pretty sturdy it has a nice weight to it it's one and a half pounds and it's half an inch thick and when you look at it you might think well it looks like a really big iPod Touch and it does have a lot of features very similar but what they've done is actually rebuilt a lot of the core apps specifically for this device so if we look at something like mail and you can see the layout of your emails but you can actually view them here in the right-hand column and you'll see this in a lot of the other applications you also find a redesign to iTunes Store and what also makes this unique is the store itself is laid out differently it's really taken advantage of the larger screen space so you have a really a better user experience you also have access to your photos there's kind of a cool photo frame feature where your docket and you press a button and it'll actually turn into this kind of digital photo frame they also have access to movie content as well and all of your applications now some of the unique innovative features of this device is the iBooks and the iBooks bookstore so what this is this is a bookshelf and much like iTunes you can get access to books and instantly download them to the device and then one of the main things that I think that makes this unique is sure it's not a Inc but this is a full-color screen also you have the touch capability to turn pages you can even take it nice and slow if you want to now a lot of the apps most of the apps that are currently on the App Store will work with the iPad they do have this feature that's basically a doubler that fills out the game to the screen I can just click right here and it doubles the pixels so you're still gonna get a full screen experience there will be apps that are customized specifically for the iPad so you can wait and see that when the actual device releases another feature they're really pushing is being able to use some of their desktop apps from the iWork suite directly on the device they have also been redesigned just for multi-touch so all you do is use your fingers so you have an application that you're familiar with like keynote which is a PowerPoint application and this will allow you to interact with your slideshow and use it with your hands now the iPad what's the price I'm gonna start at well there's two flavors really there's a Wi-Fi version and then Wi-Fi with 3G if you want the entry-level Wi-Fi model that's gonna start at $4.99 and go up to $6.99 then if you want a Wi-Fi and 3G version that's going to start at 629 dollars and go the way up to 829 dollars for this 64 gig version now the iPad overall it is a unique innovative device I don't feel really super compelled to buy one at the moment but I really think that will change as more media content that you can interact with that makes a unity unique experience comes out but overall there's your first look at the iPad I'm Brian song with cnet.com