my first experience with the iPad

Using the iPhone now almost two years, I was very curious to get hold of the iPad, to see if that tablet thing is as good as it has been advertised. I am using it now since more than a week, and I must admit that I am positively impressed. I have since abandoned my MacBook and netbook for the iPad. It is like an iPhone with a much bigger screen, now typing with ten fingers is possible, typing is really quick. Switching it on is quick, no booting time, it does not make any noise, no fan. It’s size allows you to take it with you easily, you do not have any barrier to use it if you just want to look up some informations, check your emails or social networks, it is just as simple and fast. Apple has a strict software distribution policy which is contested by many people, but in the other hand, the user can be sure that the software installed via the Apple store are of a good quality and hopefully free of any malware. That what is also great with it, one does not need anti virus, firewall or malware protection, like in the old times…
I was not really keen in getting the 3G version, as getting to know that it is using a smaller sim card, this would have ment to have a new contract with a mobile phone operator, meaning more expenses. As officially the iPad would not support the tethering and I am not very enthusiastic with jailbreaking, I found an easy way round: using a Nokia E51, I purchased a software called JoikuSpot for less than 10€, it creates a local wifi which I can use to connect the iPad so that I can have access to the Internet through the Nokia. A great workaround which makes my iPad totally independent of available wifi hotspots.