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• How awesome is the iPad interface?

  May 26, 2010No comments

  The release of Apple’s iPad’s drew a lot of attention from around the globe, especially after the heavily-publicized launch by Steve Jobs, focusing on its supposedly fantastic interface. Well, so does the iPad live up to expectations? Let’s see.

  The iPad has retained many of the iPhone’s features but with a noticeably much-improved look and performance. Apart from the touch-screen feature and the ability to choose an orientation (portrait or landscape), icons and graphics now have a 72×72-pixel resolution.  This is particularly wonderful for viewing pictures and videos.

  Speaking of viewing pictures, we can pinch to zoom in, pinch out to zoom out, tap to click and view in full screen, and slide to flip pages. The last feature is the iPad’s most interesting feature. iPad applications may have a book-like interface, flipping pages as the user slides his finger left and right. This is great for reading e-books.

  As for games, of course the bigger screen paves the way for multi-finger game control and play.  Major game developers are already hard at work on producing games that benefit from this feature.

  Some have griped that the iPad is just like a big ol’ iPhone.  Yes, perhaps it does give that impression, with its features pretty much the same as its predecessor’s. But its particular size and functionality is also perfect for the business and academic professionals, who would love to do their presentations without bringing that bulky laptop along. This is also true for IT professionals who like to have their fun and work at the same time, anywhere, at their convenience. Even gamer geeks would be delighted to get their hands on a gadget that can be inserted like a magazine into their bags after playing their favorite games

  The iPad is full of promise. The challenge is now for the developers to come up with fresh and new applications that will be able to optimize the iPad ‘s interface.

  

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