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what's up everyone John Redinger from TechnoBuffalo here there's been a lot of discussion and debate about whether or not the iPad is nothing more than a larger iPod Touch or an oversized iPhone so I thought let's let you be the judge we're gonna put the two head-to-head you can see the iPad is right for you so on the right side we've got the iPhone 3GS as a contender and on the Left we've got a 32 gigabyte Wi-Fi on the iPad has the other contender let's go ahead and get started we're gonna cover a lot of topics we're gonna have to sort of glance over some nuances here just in the interest of time otherwise this is going to be close to the two-hour video so let's start with the lock screen on the iPad you've got you got and I kind of right there for pictures if you hit that it'll start a picture slideshow on your lockscreen kinda neat the iPod on the other hand does not have that feature that could certainly be added with a firmware upgrade you can go ahead and unlock the Vettes I'll go ahead and unlock this as well so let's start with customization you can do a little bit more customization on the iPad than you can on the iPod touch so there's a lot more screen real estate obviously on the iPad come standard here with 4 icons on the dock you can actually add 6 to those so I can take an icon say there's ABC player for example I can drag it down I can take the Kindle app right here and I can drag that down here you're limited to just four go ahead and put it back up so there's one example of customization let's go ahead and show you a few more and it's also a good way to show what the menu systems look like on the iPad so you take advantage of the screen real estate a little bit more the iPad you get more of a hierarchical menu system so you can see all the menu options here on the Left whereas on the iPod Touch or the iPhone you have to scroll through to get to them so you can determine whether or not that's an important feature queue or not so let's go ahead and go to let's say brightness and wallpaper so the come standard the whole bunch of different wallpapers nothing terribly fancy there go and tap it you can pick all your pictures if you'd like or you can just pick an image we'll go ahead and pick that one you can see all the pictures that you have on your phone or you can go to wallpapers and pick the ones that are default so I've got the globe set is mine and you can pick whether or not you want to set as a lockscreen set as home screen or set it as both right here on the iPhone the iPod touch go to wallpaper and we pick one so there's the same globe you can set it just as the backgrounds for the lockscreen you can't change the background of the device we are actually using it so there's a little bit example of some customizations that you can do again this is something that could be fixed very easily with the firmware upgrade to the iPod Touch or iPhone so let's go ahead look at the native applications that come standard on both so we'll cover probably some of the bigger ones right now let's go ahead and jump right into the YouTube player so here's the YouTube player on the iPad obviously and you get sort of a much larger grid and all of these features just take advantage of the additional screen real estate so today this week all featured top rated most viewed and just get it's a little more um visual same thing some of the favorite videos all your subscriptions sort of come out here on a big list you can pick the one you want so I can pick it's popping out video I can go ahead and see what they've done and just click away let's go ahead and pick a video so we'll go to to pick one that I've done most asked tech questions something I did a while ago it actually plays in a little different format here so you can actually see all the information about the video right below and I'll start to play a write in the screen you just get a little bit more of a native viewing experience here and you can full screen it and of course you can rotate it and that will start playing you don't need to see my mug so I'll go ahead and done to that let me show you what the YouTube video and YouTube application looks like on the iPhone and iPod touch so use go ahead and turn on Wi-Fi I turned on airplane mode because I didn't want to get phone calls while we were using tends to go on and on and on the only time I get phone calls in TV when I'm filming videos so let me show you here what that looks like I'll go ahead and open up YouTube still looking for a french bulldog puppy I was thinking about getting the dog so you get certain rows across the bottom and you get much smaller thumbnails it's pretty eloquent way to view videos I watch a lot of YouTube video on here but its small ready to take advantage of the larger real estate here on the iPad I'll go ahead and close this and let's go next - how about mobile safari an application that I use quite a bit I assume you do as well I did a previous video sort of walking you through mobile Safari on the iPad and how it's a little bit different let me give you guys just a quick summary here let's go ahead and launch this and we'll launch it as well on the iPhone so you can see we've got Google loaded up here looks like a standard website as you can find really anywhere let me show you the speed of the site how quickly load on each before I do that let me show you some of the very quick nuances you've got this bookmarks bar across the top you can see I've got TechnoBuffalo bookmarked right there so I could go ahead and jump right to that if I wanted I've got a sort of a 3d ish effect that comes back with my different pages bookmarks are all contextualized you actually get these pop-ups and the menus that sort of show up throughout the iPad let's go ahead and check some load speeds although TechnoBuffalo on each of these and we'll see how quickly they work now I should mention that this is then loaded on both of these devices so cookies and stuff have been cached you can see they make this a representation of how fast a paging you visit on a regular basis would load for you so go ahead and do TechnoBuffalo on each try and hit them both the same time there and right there and these are both on the same Wi-Fi network the iPads got a one gigahertz chip it's the a4 chip built just for it's already done built just for the iPad and the iPhone 3GS is about a 600 megahertz chip it and that looks like it's almost about done as well as actually still loading so we're at the back you can see there's definitely a speed difference with the iPad something that I've certainly noticed all the way through so browsing here was a pretty similar experience it's very quick its fluid but you can just see so much more content you can look at the difference here than what you can see on this page and where you can see on the iPhone makes it a lot easier to look at content so pinching and zooming worked so you'd expect YouTube videos we just saw play right inside of the browser here you can see just go ahead play you can fullscreen and everything just as we could before of course flash isn't present on either device to me show YouTube videos play here on the iPhone or iPod Touch actually opens up a secondary player so next let's hop on over to male because there are a lot of differences here with male this is probably some of the best implementation of using the larger screen real estate so go ahead and open up male and you can get a glimpse of some of the stuff I'm looking at here's a contact form that came through you go ahead and see all these messages get this contextual menu that pops up you can pick one that you want so here's a let's go to the YouTube message you go ahead and open right to that question about the obligatory biggie nice if you rotate it you actually get a bit more context on the side and you can sort of keep jumping through it so we'll go ahead and pick another one you can see what it looks like go ahead and push this back up here you get sort of the same sort of view and you could go ahead and pick emails and open them and view them just as you're probably pretty used to again it's just an implementation of where more screen real estate equals more features you get a bit more things that you can do just because you have more space to do them so next let's check out the iTunes Store on each device so here is the iTunes Store on the iPad it looks very similar to the iTunes store that you are used to on your desktop or a laptop computer it looks very native and of course well because it is native made by Apple so you can view and scroll up whatever you want you can download things over Wi-Fi you can view movies TV shows you can rent them or buy them and you can go ahead and just scroll through and it's very easy and intuitive here on the iPhone we'll go ahead open up the iTunes it's very intuitive easy to use as well but again a little bit of a smaller space means you can't do as much and you can't see as much at once so you can scroll through pretty easily the search function to work just the same so go ahead and migrate out of this and let's jump to the iPod so here is the iPod and the sort of opens up another iTunes ish looking thing and this is sort of another way where looks a bit more desktop now interestingly enough what's been omitted is Cover Flow there really isn't a Cover Flow functionality as far as iTunes is concerned something that was a big selling point on the first generation iPhone I remember when the first time I saw it I was scrolling through showing everybody up who I thought it was not here so I've got music podcasts audiobooks I only have one playlist I put on here Green Day volume is controlled by upper left-hand corner can view songs artist album genre is heavier genius playlist there in the bottom left or if you want to add a playlist you can go ahead and hit play they'll play through the speakers on the bottom and of course you can see on the iPad only other difference is that I'll rotate any direction so I'll hit play here pull up lots of songs if you rotate it just rotates so the play looks like it opens up and that's about all thought I'm not going to play it any longer I don't want to get any copyright issues but you can see how it looks you get sort of it's a big album but no cover flow so on the iPod here I'll go ahead and open this up see I've got some Always Sunny in Philadelphia on my favorite TV shows we'll go ahead and go to songs and if I turn this there's that cover flow of thing I was talking about that you just don't get with the iPad so you get all your songs here and go ahead and pick one plays almost exactly the same pause is right down below so that was sort of an overview of some of the standard applications let me show you some of the things that the iPad does and can do that the iPhone does not do we're still going to be a very quick overview I'm going to show you the iBooks application right now I'll go more into detail about the iBook and show you how it works by just want to give you a general overview so you can go ahead and open that up you get a full sort of cool bookshelf looking effect and you can open up up it comes to anyway the Winnie the Pooh and you can go ahead and just read and of course you can flip your pages just as you would a normal book and one of the things I should mention that you don't see in the video is how the device feels in your hands it's sort of one of the reasons I'd say you can get to an Apple Store Best Buy go check one out because it's holding it may change your opinion I was very skeptical about it when I first held and I saw the utility of it it became very interesting so you can scroll through and read a book you can actually adjust the brightness right from the application guess you prefer a little lighter darker I don't think the glossy screen is gonna affect my eye as opposed to Kindle like ink it appears to be pretty solid let me go ahead and go back and show you the story very quickly the story looks pretty native to what you'd expect similar to what iTunes looked like it's sort of the 3rd store that they have here and you go ahead and pick a book by it books are about new releases about 13 bucks $12.99 or around there and you've got a lot of other applications that you just don't have on the iPhone I think that make it a bit more utilitarian so you've got pages for example and I'll do a full video on pages and this is sort of Apple's version of Microsoft Word and go ahead and start typing you can insert images you have got pretty decent customization options that you see across here insert pictures there's a spreadsheet application and a presentation application so like a PowerPoint ask so you can actually use this a bit more as a Productivity tool so go ahead and quit out of this and I'll show you a few more other things you've got Netflix for example which supposedly is coming for the iPhone lets you stream Netflix on-demand content right to the device and another thing that I should mention the iPad is very very good for video really lets you see things it's almost like you would on a TV and just because it's packed it's a larger don't share another application some of the apps are very different and take advantage of the larger screen real estate for example Twitter if ik my Twitter client of choice things just look a bit bigger not very different than what you find on the iPhone or iPod touch just larger and if you rotate it like most applications you get a bit more menu options so I've got my all my tweets mentions messages or favorites so the things that are really important to me and the things that I was looking for in the iPad was the mobile web experience I rely on mobile web for quite a bit for work even for commenting on YouTube videos before checking out post on TechnoBuffalo responding to people and I reached Bly on mail quite a bit how I react and respond to people so I needed something that could really handle those two things that are very simple requirements and I got that plus much more with the iPad I know at the pages application where I can actually write up posts and articles I can watch a video on here I can watch TV on here there are things like the AVC video player which takes advantage of html5 format I'm going to stream content directly from ABC's website and watch newest episode of lost or modern family or Grey's Anatomy and that's your thing um not necessarily mine so there's a lot that you can do with the iPad and the iPad itself may not seem like much more than a big iPod touch but I think the future of the device is gonna be in the hands of developers and what they do with it I think that again I've mentioned this in previous videos we're looking at a paradigm shift for how we consume content we've got things like you know Wall Street Journal application we can go through and read newspapers and get magazines and even some books are gonna have their own applications you can get a more immersive environment so imagine reading a book to your kids it's a child's book and actually go through and see the characters move and come to life it's just a very interesting way to interact with the device and I think that we're looking at sort of the next generation of mobile computing and whether or not it's the iPad another device that sort of takes that crown there's very little doubt that the iPad is going to change the industry it's going to force the competition to evolve and change their business models much like the iPhone didn't so I think in that aspect whether you love it or hate it certainly going to move people forward in the right direction so again lesson I want to talk about is the App Store it looks about as you'd expect almost exactly like the rest of the applications it looks very native and the App Store on the iPhone or iPod Touch looks about the same as the other application on the iPhone or iPod Touch you just get a bit more options here so guys sort of a tough to say whether or not the iPad is going to be for you for what I needed it for now is looking for the iPad is perfect I can sit on the couch I can write my TV posts I can view my websites that I need to I could watch TV or watch movies take it with me on a plane or a train or an automobile wherever else you want to go and be able to sort of consume all of my media my books my TV movies online life and mail served in one application that's a little bit bigger a little bit larger you shouldn't just discount the fact that it's a larger iPod Touch because the larger screen size does give you a bit more utility however if you're very happy with your iPhone or iPod Touch and you don't see a compelling reason to upgrade I am probably pretty happy with what you have again it comes down to a personal preference and again I can't recommend enough going to an Apple store going to a Best Buy or a retailer near you that sells this and taking a look at so once you have it in hand you may feel that you've got a very different experience with it so guys John render from TechnoBuffalo stay tuned to the channel on the website for all of your iPad related news we'll have bigger write-ups on the site for the iPad if you haven't joined the site go ahead and join sign up you can access our social network I talk to other users so you can create your own tech website so TechnoBuffalo accom slash whatever and they've even put in your own ad code and make some money from the site if you'd like any guys in John Redinger TechnoBuffalo and I will see you in the next video bye-bye