[Galaxy Tab 7.7 General] Cashmoney21:
First post here, hi all. Let me start out by saying I am not a fanboy of any company. I choose products for what they bring me and not their brand.

I Picked up an iPad new or 3 today. I am not impressed at all. The device is substantially heavy and I felt it right away. The new weight results in the corners of the new iPad to feel sharp digging in the palm of your hand combined with the tapered edges that were introduced with the second gen. The screen tech is old tech no matter what apple spins it as. Yes there is some difference due to the higher res but it's not a WOW screen that will leave you amazed. If you've seen an oled screen the ips screen simply will NOT blow you away. End of story. Apple is late to the high def arena and chose to up the res to an "at the moment" less useful solution because very few native res apps are around and for me personally PDFs look like crappy on this screen. To achieve a better look in the hi res screen, file sizes have to be greatly increased which is going to be an issue for content providers and for users especially those who opted for 16 gb nonexpandable storage .

In time of course native res should increase as apps are the lifebood of Apple. High def videos simply do not even compare in quality to oled. Sure the higher res does result in tighter pixels and less screen door effect so to speak, but the experiene quality is much less punchy and defined. Compared to the Samsung Note for example, the iPad new's video playback leaves you feeling cheated whereas in the Note one feels as if the images are surreal almost. I suppose this is a subjective issue but personally I like the "better than life" effect one gets from oled screens. The new iPad's screen results in videos that appear washed out, less defined and not as bright.

On the plus side the new iPad does well with IOS as the software and hardware are fine tuned to each other and that results in a fluidity of use that I have found lacking in Android. The tighter IOS security and harder for the "average person's ability" to jailbreak and side load has attracted developers to the app store for financial reasons if nothing else.

As far as displays go, my personal take on this is this is it's not really about pixel count anymore and the future lies in tech that can achieve quality without having to increase app or file size which is something that the new iPad will need in order to take advantage of the new resolution.

So in closing my first impressions of the new iPad device have not been very satisfying. I see it as a feeble attempt from Apple to introduce a new device in the tablet market in order to appear/stay relevant. But due to the fact the comany is not a manufacturer and manufacturers like Samsung now have their own devices, they will keep their best innovations for themselves and/or price the tech so high that Apple would not be able to hit its price point, at least for now. So Apple is making due with cheaper old gen display tech and gimmick like tactics like higher resolution. The rest of the tech is also nothing new or revolutionary as 4g LTE is found in many other devices now. Ultimately though It comes down to marketing power and liquid capital which Apple has lots of and they unleash it every round.

P.s. I'm finding the battery life to be horrible in the new iPad as compared to 1st and 2nd gen which is surprising to me as I always found the battery life to be plus on the iPad side.