I have read many reviews of the iPad stressing that as a device for consuming media the iPad is a fantastic device but for creating it is very poor.

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The iPad was introduced as one of the first tablet devices of this generation. It can be thought of as a super-charged iPod touch, with a far larger screen and many more exciting features. The iPad has Apple's 1 GHz A4 system and 512 MB of RAM.

We review the Apple iPad. Can it change the way we think about tablet computers? By now, you've likely read a bunch of iPad reviews. There's no point in reading another review outlining every dimension, spec and feature.

No manual necessary; Access to nearly all iPhone apps; 10-hour-plus battery life; Bright 9.7-inch IPS LCD screen; Three external buttons; Multi-directional accelerometer

Highly reflective screen; Slippery; No multi-tasking (yet; "Only" a few thousand iPad-specific apps (so far

The problem of choice when buying an iPad is compounded not just by the size of the storage, but the issue of whether or not to shell out an additional hundred quid for the 3G version.

The most important part of any tablet, whatever the quad-core brigade may say, is the screen. Unlike any internal component, the screen is what you'll still be noticing a week after your purchase, the part upon which all of your attention is focused.

For now, Apple pitches the iPad as a computer that fully engrosses you in a web page, your e-mail, or media because-apart from playing music in the background-you can't really do two things at once on it, and its non-finger input solutions are still in their infancy.

An impressively built tablet computer; featuring a clean industrial design borrowed from Apple's MacBook Pro computers; internal components derived largely from its iPod touch and iPhone pocket devices; and stable; multi-touch software.

Cannot serve as a standalone computer; in addition to iTunes dependence, horsepower is presently shortchanged by limited, iPhone-class multitasking that forces all third-party applications to occupy and waste entire screen; lack of camera similarly limits value for video communications.

Steve Jobs calls it a "game changer", but is it just an oversized iPod touch? Will we all want one of these in addition to our laptops, phones and eBook readers? If you're still standing in a queue outside an Apple Store as you read this, then maybe it's time to go home – the iPad is probably sold...

We managed to get our hands on the iPad last month (at the same time when we got the Dell Streak , Toshiba Folio 100 , Samsung Galaxy Tab and Huawei S7 ). Out of all the devices the iPad was our favorite, it simply felt like a true tablet device, where as most of the others felt more like giant...

The 2012 refresh of the Apple iPad wows, but not for the reasons so often associated with Apple products.

4G LTE option via Verizon; Vivid,

iOS 5.1 still lacks large-screen optimizations,