Look at me, and listen to me 1.X: Two iPad Reviews From Walter S. Mossberg and David Pogue

Apple iPad Review: Laptop Killer? Pretty Close - by Walter S. Mossberg

Review: Looking at the iPad From 2 Angles - by David Pogue

Before every Apple’s new product shipping, we usually got the reviews from Walter S. Mossberg and David Pogue. This time I suggest you read both of their reviews because their reviews are in different styles.

David Pogue’s article is always interesting. This time he writes his iPad review for two kinds of people: techies and regular people like you and me. In his review, he talks more about the concept. It doesn’t mean that he did the less tests. But in contrast with David Pogue’s review, Walter S. Mossberg talks more about his testing results in many sides of the iPad.

Video - Walter S. Mossberg's iPad review

The same thing they both mention clearly is that the iPad’s battery life is longer than Apple’s claim. In David Pogue’s review, he said the number is 12 hours. And in Walter S. Mossberg’s review, he said that under his test, the iPad can play video for 11 hours and 28 minutes, and he also said that he kept the WiFi connection on and let it download E-mails in the background when iPad played video. Both of David Pogue and Walter S. Mossberg didn’t mention clearly that whether they adjust the brightness of the iPad’s screen.According their articles, I think they didn’t do that when they tested the iPad’s battery life.

The bad news is, it seems that the Pages(one of the Apple’s productivity software suit on the iPad called “iWork”) can’t transform the document well from Pages format to PDF. Walter S. Mossberg said it’s unreadable. And not to mention the result of transforming to Microsoft’s Word format.

However, Walter S. Mossberg thought that the iPad has the potential to change the portable computing and be a challenger to laptops and netbooks. Of course, only time will tell.