iPad wrap-up

I thought I should do a wrap-up post on how the iPad worked for the trip. To be brief, I would say it worked very well. I would not hesitate in taking one again. The combination of the iPad and the Bluetooth keyboard worked very well, especially when there was a table.

The battery life of the iPad was great and I never had to change the batteries in the keyboard. The lightness of my bag was also wonderful, especially at the end of the day. In short, all of the advantages I hoped for before I left were borne out.

The iPad was wonderful on the plane flights, which is something I hadn't though of. It worked well for blogging. The slides posted to my blog were done by downloading the presentation slides on the iPad, taking a screen shot of the one I wanted and then posting the resulting jpeg by sending it to a secret email address. The photos, by the way, all came from my iPhone and were posted using the same secret email address.

I'm having a hard time thinking of any time I wished I had a laptop. I had to think about different ways to do some things and I did download a couple of apps to do some things that I hadn't thought about ahead of time. My typing skills with the virtual keyboard did improve as there were many times that the bluetooth keyboard was not convenient. This post is being done with just the virtual keyboard.

Having the 3G iPad was important. There were a number of times when I didn't have wi-fi and even more times when the wi-fi was either very slow or not working at all. When that happened, I simply turned off the wi-fi an kept going. That said, I will say that having a wireless access point in my hotel room worked out nicely.

All in all, it was a great experience!