I'm slowly getting used to this "keyboard". I have found that I don't do well if I try to hover my fingers over the letters in the same position as if it were a tangible keyboard so I've adopted a sort of typing meets pecking method where my fingers are held to the sides of the keys so as not to hide the letters and then my fingers move randomly to strike the necessary keys. It sounds more troublesome than it is. I watched my first movie on Lola this afternoon and was constantly reminded, as I had used my headphones, of this guy Darr told me about who complained about the placement of the headphone jack at the bottom of the screen. Um, dude, turn it over! I have yet to take Lola out of her protective covering (also known as the iPad condom) but I have found approximately 17 different iPad sleeves on Etsy that would be awesome to have. Had I not already contacted my mom to make one for me, I would totally buy all of them. A girl's gotta have her accessories, right?
On the usability scale, I'd place Lola at a solid seven. (One being lame and not user-friendly at all and ten being need this more than food and water to live.) Looking ahead I could definitely see the iPad taking over for my laptop if I got a kick ass desktop system to do the heavy lifting. Of course this would be after folks like Hulu.com got on board and changed to HTML5 so not having Flash capabilities wouldn't be an issue. I just typed this post using Lola, and while it took a little longer to complete than it would have if I was using my other computer I'm not annoyed or bothered by the extra time spent. More Lola the iPad at the condo entries to follow.
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I had heard from one review that you cannot use multiple applications at the same time... say, work on a picture, listen to some music, and browse the intertubes. Is this your experience?
I've been hostage to my iPod Touch these last 6 weeks (fits into one hand while the other is cradling the hungry lampry, all sitting in the dark in the rocker at 3 am of course) and I notice the touch-pad issues too, only probably more pronounced as it's on a teensy itsy bitsy screen. And doing things, like commenting on blogs or staying on top of Facebook, are frustrating difficult. Sounds like these things are easier on the larger iPad.
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