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RUSH: A lot of people are asking me what I think of the iPad, \u2019cause I was so distracted here Friday I couldn\u2019t wait to get home and start playing with the thing and I\u2019ll tell you what. I got home at about 45 minutes after the program. It took me an hour and a half to sync it up because it\u2019s just like an iPhone. I connected it to my master computer and I synced everything on that master computer via iTunes that I wanted on the iPad and there were a lot of photos and there were a lot of videos and a lot of things that took some time. It was about an hour and a half, and I\u2019m sitting there saying, ‘Why did I do this? I didn\u2019t have to do this first. I coulda played with the damn thing before I sync it. Now it\u2019s another hour and a half I can\u2019t do anything with it while it\u2019s sitting there and I don\u2019t want to interrupt the sync.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So I tried to occupy myself for an hour and a half by finding videos of the thing (chuckles) on the Apple website, see how it operates. There were a bunch of apps I wanted to get with it after I got it all synced up and was using it — and I\u2019ve got a Kindle, so I wanted to get the Kindle app, because all my books that I bought on Kindle automatically download to the iPad without buying it again. And then Apple has its own e-book application called iBooks. They don\u2019t have nearly as many books there, but they\u2019re getting there. So I have both those apps. I already read three novels over the weekend. Pshew! It\u2019s fascinating. The first thing that struck me here was how fast it is. This thing, Wi-Fi loads web pages two to three times faster than the iPhone simply because it\u2019s a bigger chip and a more powerful battery. The battery\u2019s 10 hours, 10 to 11 hours. That\u2019s the second thing I noticed. Then the display, the size. I just loved it. I was immersed with the thing all weekend. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got it sitting over there. I\u2019m still kind of waiting for this show to emd so I can go back and use it. (laughs) Nah, just kidding. Just kidding. The 3G, I turned that on. I have one problem with it. There\u2019s just one problem with it, and it doesn\u2019t happen on the iPhone. It\u2019s Wi-Fi. When I go outside where my living room is, the three feet outside and sit there on a table in the patio, I lose Wi-Fi. The iPhone does not. So I walked back inside, three feet inside, and I got a full Wi-Fi signal. I don\u2019t know what that\u2019s about. My neighbor who has one has the same problem. So I don\u2019t know what that is, but I have 3G so I just fired up the 3G and I was able to use it out there. I don\u2019t know if anybody else has experienced that because I haven\u2019t spent a lot of time on these forums and blogs of people who have these things. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the only thing I noticed about it that I didn\u2019t like. Everything else about it… Oh, the second thing: When they enable printing from this thing, I will no longer need a laptop. And this thing only weighs four pounds. It\u2019s light as hell versus my 17-inch laptop. That\u2019s a big thing to lug around. I\u2019m told that they\u2019re gonna enable printing on the iPhone software upgrade 4.0 in June which will end up on the iPads in September. But I haven\u2019t confirmed that. There\u2019s some third-party printing apps but they don\u2019t work very well, formatting and so forth. So just like cut and paste (cut, copy, paste) took a long time to get to the iPhone, printing, I\u2019m sure at some point it\u2019ll get there. I wouldn\u2019t look for them to ever put a phone on this thing and just cannibalize the iPhone. But you are gonna get Voice Over IP (I think Truphone or Skype) and you\u2019ll be able to make phone calls that way. <\/p>\n

It has a microphone. It doesn\u2019t have a camera but it will; I guarantee you. This is the beta hardware unit. In a year they\u2019ll come out with a camera on the thing, front-facing and it\u2019ll be able to take pictures. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s probably already testing that prototype now, hoping some guy doesn\u2019t leave it in a bar for eventually Gizmodo to come up with it. That\u2019s my review. I showed all the staff here today and they were fascinated with it. It\u2019s a great display. It is lickety-split fast. When you change the orientation from landscape vertical, it\u2019s instant. The iPhone sometimes takes a while to catch up with the movement of the phone sideways. This is instant. You can lock it, too, so that it doesn\u2019t switch when you move the thing around. Typing on it is easy. <\/p>\n

I have no problem. I\u2019ve never had a problem with the virtual keyboard. You know, a bunch of whiners (people who professionally complain about things) whine about the iPhone keyboard. I have never had a problem with it. I don\u2019t mind. But this keyboard\u2019s bigger, a little bit… (interruption) What do you mean I ‘don\u2019t have fat fingers?\u2019 That\u2019s not an excuse! Fat fingers? Besides you can go landscape now with the keyboard and the iPhone so it doesn\u2019t matter if you get fat fingers. Not an excuse as far as I\u2019m concerned. Sixty-four. Sixty-four gigs. That\u2019s the memory. That\u2019s top of the line right now. That\u2019s a lot. I got a great bunch of weather apps, some games. Well, some things I shouldn\u2019t say what I have. (laughing) <\/p>\n

Nah, security systems. I can arm \u2019em remotely from this thing wherever I happen to be: Here at home or at the office, the car. It\u2019s an amazing thing. Now, let me get back to some stuff here before we get… Oh! Oh! I just got a flash here: ‘Apple confirms iPad Wi-Fi problems,\u2019 and they\u2019ve got a post: ‘Try these fixes. Users are speculating the weak signal strength may be caused by poor placement of the Wi-Fi antenna. Others ponder if the problems are the symptoms of a software issue.\u2019 I think it\u2019s software. I think they\u2019re going to fix it in the software upgrade or update, because there\u2019s no reason for this. In fact, when I go outside the signal is still full. When I use it, when it downloads an e-mail or goes to the Internet that\u2019s when it dies. So it\u2019s not an antenna. It\u2019s picking up a signal out there. There\u2019s something in there. I don\u2019t know what it has to do with going outside, if atmospherics has anything to do with it. I\u2019m glad to find that it\u2019s not something specific to my unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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