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After just an hour with an iPad, I came away with a preliminary verdict: Despite some flaws, this is one slick device. Steve Jobs intrigued me in his slow, showman-like presentation Wednesday when he said the $499-and-up iPad is “so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone.” The comparison to an iPhone makes sense, given the minimalist silver-and-black style of the iPad. The first thing I wanted to do when I held it was browse the Web and check out the iPad’s on-screen keyboard. My favorite Web sites looked great on its crisp screen, which is 9.7 inches on the diagonal — while the iPhone is just 3.5 inches. When you hold the iPad with the wider side down, in landscape mode, it’s nearly big enough for touch typing — an improvement over the way that the iPhone’s cramped keyboard sometimes causes errors. As on the iPhone, the iPad’s screen is extremely responsive to finger swipes and taps, which made it easy to scroll through Web sites like Facebook and select photos and articles I wanted to read on news sites. It also seems like it would be a great way to read a book, curled up on my couch. The iPad comes with Apple’s new iBook software, which opens up to reveal a realistic-looking wooden bookshelf stocked with all the titles in your e-book collection. Click on a book cover, and the book will open. You can read one page at a time in portrait mode, or, turn the iPad to either side and it will show you two pages of text. The screen is sharp and the pages turn crisply, more like a real book than on electronic ink screens found on devices like the Kindle. Like Amazon.com Inc. did for its Kindle, Apple is rolling…
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