Apple iPad 2 :

- It is suitable for an endless array of application to satisfy most consumer needs, especially  entertainment features, photo apps, video and games route apps. Basically iPad escels at entertainment.

- It is low maintenance (It is a one of many reasons why some change their platform from PC to Apple Mac OS).

- The battery life is still for 10 hours for iPad2 and it gives you longer than Eee Slate.

Asus Eee Slate :

- It can function with many platforms as a actual computer (like a laptop in tablet’s body). It is actually design to do a lot of things but excels at productivities

- It is compatible with a chance to upgrade to Window 8.

- Although Eee Slate has 2.0 webcam front-and rear video camera but some say that it is hard to use and to point at what you want to take a photo if you use it as a laptop.

-It supports a digitizer pen (to take note and draw sketches)and proper software as they are included in the box. Unlike iPad2, you have to buy it from other company

- In terms of usefulness, Eee slate can do all entertainment like iPad 2 does, ei Facebook, Video, play flash games and much more.

- Bluetooth keyboard is included . It is obvious that you get keyboard for laptop uses.

- A big disadvantage for Eee slate is battery life : it is only up to 3 hours (I think it is not enough for using as a tablet)

-Another disadvantage is its weight 2.53 lbs two times heavier than iPad 2 only  1.33 lbs.

In conclude, iPad 2 is as a lastest and the best tablet so far, offering you more entertainment but if you want to do a serious office work then Asus Eee Slate is better as it is both tablet and laptop.

See Asus Ess Slate EP121 specification at Amazon.com

I think I found an interesting solution for anyone who would like to use IPad as ebook reader but the LCD screen has glares when use it outdoor and semi outdoor. I just found this Moshi iVisor Anti glare for iPad and its demo video. and It looks easy ! Normally I am totally against all of these IPad accessories. I think reduce the IPad’s charm. But with the Moshi iVisor Anti glare screen protector, I think perhaps this product could improve IPad screen.

Click here for the full specifications of Moshi iVisor Anti glare for iPad with the special discount @ Amazon

The Moshi iVisor Anti glare is the best customer review IPad screen protection. It has 5 star rating. Here is the sample of customer review : ” … This is a wonderful product. I’ve used every kind of screen protector, from the cheap $0.50 ones to the expensive Zagg Invisible Shields. This offers the best protection and the easiest installation. No complicated adhesive procedures or spray bottles or squeegees. The protector only sticks to the black edges of the iPad and not the screen, so you will never have any bubbles under the screen. Easy to remove with no residue …. This was the 3rd screen protector [my first both is not satisfied me] … Lastly I installed the Moshi. After my past experiences I really took my time getting my iPad really clean and polished and was very careful to get all of the lint off of the screen.

The rest of the install was incredibly easy. I have other friends that didn’t quite get it right on the first try and it’s stiff and forgiving enough to take it off and try again. Not recommended but it’s good to know that the option is there if needed. It’s stiffness really helps in lining up the cover. Just make sure the hole for the button and the sides are lined up and you’re pretty much done. I love it …” And this is another Moshi iVisor Anti glare for iPad video that you might want to check out.

My Kindle DX Graphite vs IPad as ebook reader: Which one you should buy

I am posting this article on my IPad with my new Mac bluetooth keyboard and it is superb ! I can type so fast on my Mac bluetooth keybpard because it has the same keyboard layout as my Macbook Air. So no need to change my typing style to fit my new IPad bluetooth keyboard.

If you are looking for the IPad bluetooth keyboard case, I think Mac bluetooth is so much better choice. Firstly, it is lighter. Even combined both of IPad and Mac bluetooth keyboard with the two AA batteries, still lighter than my 2009 13 inch Macbook Air model. Secondly, with the spereated physical keyboard and IPad. It allowed you to travel ligther. Because you don’t need to use the physical keyboard all the time and no reason that you have to bring it with you all the time. Thirdly, I belive the best way to experience your IPad is be able to touch its skin while using it and I’ve tried Apple IPad case and I think it is overprice and totally not worth my money. Buying IPad bluetooth keyboard case will force you to use your IPad with th cover. And my last reason why Mac bluetooth is the best choice for IPad is You can us your Mac bluetooth keyboard shotcut to control your IPad like you do with the Macbook which I think it’s awsome. I can adjust my IPad screen’s brightness with the the F1 and F2 keys, IPod control F6 for previous track and F9 for next track, F8 for play and stop. F11 and F12 for volume control and F12 is eject button to show your on screen keyboard or hide it. Most of the time I feel like I using the new tablet netbook not the IPad.

Click here for the full specifications of Mac bluetooth keyboard with discount price @ Amazon

So These are my suggestions 1. If you are already own the IPad and looking for its perfect companion keyboard. I think the best choice is the Mac bluetooth keyboard not another IPad bluetooth keyboard cases. And if you are looking for the very light weight netbook, I think paring IPad with the Mac bluetooth keyboard is the prfect combination. If you are the common user who is looking for netbook for 1. document : word processor (IPad’s Pages app can do that) , presentation (IPad’s Keynotes can deal with that easily, statistic calculating (Numbers app can do that), 2. multimedia reader tablet : IPad is the best for that : it fast with the proper screen size and with the more than enough apps to let you choose your best suited. 3. It’s cheap : If all of your need is just document working and multimedia surfing why waste your money for something you didn’t need. The price of IPad + Mac bluetooth keyboard is cheaper than buying the budget netbook. 4. IPad has the super long battery life – with the 10 hours of battery life make the IPad is one of the most convenient netbook. No need for reserved battery or A/C carrying any more.

Click here or IPad full specifications details @ Amazon

So the Mac keyboard does not has the flaw at all ? No, One the bluetooth connection may convenience but in the other hand it is the battery eater. If you use your IPad to listen to music at the same time as document typing, your IPad battery life might not as long as you used to with the normal use. But I think with the full charged, 6-8 hours is what we can expected which I think if you use it for everyday life basis it’s more than enough.

Top 3 best customer reviews IPad Bluetooth keyboard cases, Which one should you buy ?

There are immense of tablets release this year. With so many choices, If you are planing to get the one of the ebook reader, it is a bit tough decision. Which one you should get tablet or color ebook reader ? There are a few question you have to answer before purchase the tablet or color ebook reader.

1. Do you really need the color ebook reader ? The color ebook reader’s strength is its screen reader (of course !). The color screen allows you to see the vivid color image from your ebook. But most of the available ebooks for native ebook reader like Kindle are text based as same as e-magazine. The full interactive e-magazine is available for tablet like IPad (I don’t quite sure about the availability on Android tablet and Windows 7 tablet but considered from its hugh number of the tablet release, It’s pretty sure that there will be e-magazine releases for these two OS tablets). So you have to think why you want to buy the color ebook reader ? If it is because PDF all of the tablets can read the PDF too.

So my first suggestion is, if you are looking for the ebook reader for  everyday life novel reading, Why don’t just buy native ebook reader ? With the same price of the 1 – 3 star color ebook reader rating, you can get the best 5 star reviewed ebook reader.

Click here for the Kindle 3 official page @ Amazon

But If you are looking for e-magazine or multimedia reader, I must say go with the tablet ! There are many tablets available and more to come. starts for around 150 USD to more over a thousand depends on screen size and the components. These are the best 4 ebook reader tablets that you might like to check out :

Creative Ziio vs ViewSonic G-tablet vs Velocity Micro T103 vs Dell Streak Android, which one is the best ebook reader ?

2. How much will you spend for ebook reader : I think one major reason to look for the color ebook reader is its price, most of color ebook readers has been placed to fill the gap between brand name ebook reader and brand name tablet, to be the budget ebook reader in the ebook war. If you are looking for the budget ebook reader, I still believe the best way for money well spend is to get the tablet. Because basically both tablet and color ebook reader are almost the same type of device. It has the big color screen, it’s battery life is not as good as native ebook reader, it can not be read outdoor, but it can read multimedia, e-magazine, movie, music, internet. So why bother pay for color ebook reader that not suitable for all of these ? So my suggestion is if you are looking for the budget color screen ebook reader, get the budget Android OS tablet !

Here is the link for Android tablets list that you might want to start with

I am the one whose spend so much time on reading in bed before my sleep and in my spare time. Especially in this holiday season. Today I’d like to share my in bed reading experience for anyone who is looking for in bed companion ebook reader.

In bed with the IPad : It’s very hard to read from IPad in bed. Because of its weight, I can not hardly hold it with my hand. And also with the multitouch gesture navigator which kind of need you to use both of your hand. It’s also impossible to turn to the next page with your thumb. To read IPad with iBooks application I think you’ll need to use both of your hands which is not so comfortable while lay on your bed. But the good thing about reading IPad is you will need no light to read it !  But if you use it for a clip watching such as Youtube. I think it works just fine. Just disable the auto rotation mode and you can enjoy your best clip watching moment.

Click here for the IPad full specification, sleeves, and cases.

In bed with the Kindle DX Graphite : I know that most of people might say if you want to read light and casually, pick Kindle 3. But with my Kindle DX Graphite with the bigger screen, I think it suites me well in term of ebook reader for everydaylife. With the Kindle DX Graphite I am able to hold it with my one hand with the ability to turn to the next page easily. It’s also lighter than IPad. But the bad thing about DXG is that you’ll need side bed lamp or Kindle DX Graphite reading light to read from it.

Click here to read the full specifications of Kindle DX Graphite

As you can see from the photos. Kindle DX Graphite is the text based reader while the IPad is multimedia reader. So it’s less excitement on Kindle DX Graphite. This is not the Kindle’s flaw. It’s just the way it was made for.

Amazon Kindles and iPad are not competitors : They are served different functions

“People who have Kindle or buying Kindle also own an LCD tablet” Why? That is because they serve us different functions. People who use LCD touchscreen, like iPad, use it for reading magazine, play games, watching movies, web browsing. iPad is really good for these entertaining. How about Kindle eReader? What is it for?

The best single-purpose for Kindle is to be a reading device. This is the clearly answer of that Kindle is a competitor of iPad. Amazon Kindle is light-weight, simply use and inexpensive.  These three reasonable features that make Kindle not only become a bestselling of the year on Amazon website, but a great eReader device that will change the way we read completely.

While ipad is at $ 500, Kindle is $140 on.  The price of Kindle is “low enough that people do not have to choose between devices. Kindle then, for my option, becomes a way of experiment on innovative technological reading devices. Plus Amazon Kindle Application expand reading experience allowing you to start reading on one device, stop, jump to another one where you left off on.

As easy as you could imagine of, Kindle has quickly become accustomed with the Kindle bookstore, with endless eBooks you could enjoy with all readable devices you have.

With the price and function differences , so you have both iPad and Kindle to serve you anytime and anywhere. Have a look at Kindle 3 and Kindle DX at Amazon Kindle Store, Click Here.

What happened in the passing 2010 year ? Today we will reviewing all year long events in the ebook reader market :The year of ebook reader, starts from the released of Kindle 3 – the cheapest, lightest, longest battery and the most depth e-ink screen ebook reader at that time and Kindle DX Graphite code name ” Shasta” – the new Kindle DX family with the cheaper price and lighter weight. brings the ebook price war between Sony (Sony touch daily edition). Sony decided to dropped their Sony e-reader price to almost half price to make their ebook reader competed Kindle.

Click here to see compared of Kindle DX and Kindle 3.

At the same time – the new format of computer released Apple tablet “IPad”. At first it seems like all of the media tended to hated it with the “Nothing more than the bigger IPod touch” But after a while with the new interesting video demonstration “Wired magazine on IPad video”. IPad became more interest choice for ebook reader marker. The IPad vs native ebook reader – Kindle or Nook raised the new interesting questions to the ebook market. Could we use IPad as ebook reader and why we have to do that ? [It’s clear now that both format have the different strengthen – outdoor and text based reader for the Kindle and indoor and e-magazine reader for IPad.

Click here to read all new tablet specifications and discounts including Samsung Galaxy tab, Viewsonic G-Tablet, Velocity Micro T301 Cruz, eLocity A7, Zenithink and more @ Amazon tablets store.

The released of IPad drive Amazon to released their Kindle application to allow Kindle reader or who is to be the next Kindle reader in the future to read their Kindle e-book on several platform. You can read Kindle on IPod touch 4G, Blackberry, android, and also on your computer Mac and PC.

This Kindle vs IPad war run for a while. There was a rumor about the released of many IPad killers but nothing happened. There were some interesting ebook reader models released such as hybrid ebook reader and tablet – entourage edge, the Achros 9 but not yet brought the new excitement to the market. Also the cancellation of Microsoft Courier (my dream tablet !) made the ebook reader has divided into only two side IPad or e-ink reader. Until the released of Android tablet. At first it seemed like Android tablet was the cheap low quality tablet for the low budget price tablet market. But after a while the released of Viewsonic ViewPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Toshiba libretto, and many more of the quality showed that finally IPad has its competitor. especially for Samsung Galaxy Tab.

What to expect next year ?

If the year 2010 was the year for the war between native ebook reader (Kindle, Nook, Sony, and many more) and tablet (IPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Android tablet). The coming 2011 will the year of choices. There are many more to come especially dual screen tablet like its ancestor : Toshiba libretto. and Do you still  remember Asus duo panel ? CrunchPad ? and also the upgrade version of existing  tablet : IPad 2 with the camera and retina screen ?, also a new upgrade of Kindle 4 – Will Kindle goes color ? and don’t forget the eee pad 101 is very close to its release date ! and how about Blackberry playbook ?

Have fun this coming new year 2011.

Amazon releases 30 % discount for Kensington KeyFolio Bluetooth Keyboard and Case for iPad, The question is should you buy it ? I think one of the major problem of IPad user whose use their IPad more than ebook & media reader is the typing on IPad. With the touchscreen, It’s not very comfortable and as fast as the real keyboard. But if you buy one of these IPad keyboard + case product, it means you have to carry it along with your IPad which I think it’s not also comfortable. You have to carry more weight in your handbag. So for me,  the key feature about IPad keyboard is its weight. If you added IPad and keyboard together. It shouldn’t heavier than netbook.

Click here to go to 33% discount price for Kensington KeyFolio Bluetooth Keyboard and Case for iPad page @ Amazon

The Kensington KeyFolio Bluetooth Keyboard and Case for iPad’s weight is 1.2 pounds + IPad’s weight is 1.5 pounds = 2.7 pounds. The 11 inch Macbook Air’s weight is 2.3 pounds !! So if you don’t want to carry the heavy gear around in your handbag. Macbook Air is the better choice. But with the Kensington KeyFolio Bluetooth Keyboard and Case for iPad, you can have choice if you want to carry it your keyboard all the time or just leave it at home. With the Kensington design, I think it’s very pretty easy to remove your IPad from Kensington KeyFolio Bluetooth Keyboard and Case for iPad, unlike the original IPad case.

PadDock 10 IPad dock speaker 9 % discount for this coming Christmas and New year

With the price of USD 498.54 of 10.1 inch enTourage eDGe (based on Amazon 9% discount price click here for full specification and discount price detail) you can get the 16 GB IPad from Apple store. So, which one you should pick enTourage eDGe or IPad ?

I think the very distinguish difference between these two tablet is reading screen. With the IPad, you can have full multitouch color LCD screen tablet which allows you to read color ebook from iBooks or Kindle app and e-magazine + interactive multimedia. IPad lcd reading screen can caused you some problems with your eyes. While with the enTourage eDGe, you can have both e-ink screen (8 shades only, not as good as 16 shade e-ink Kindle but for the text based reading, I don’t think it’s a problem) and color touchscreen (Android platform).

It seems interesting with two reading screen color and e-ink. But with these two screen in the same tablet, it has caused some weight actually (more than twice of IPad). If you don’t have a problem with the weight in order to carry it around with you most of the time. enTourage eDGe is a perfect choice but If you are not use much of ebook reader and tablet at the same time. Is it worth to carry it around ?  I think if you are student, the enTourage eDGe is absolutely your perfect choice. But if you are looking for just a decent ebook reader perhaps Kindle is much better choice. And If you are looking for the multipurpose tablet, IPad is perhaps the proper choice. Or perhaps Pocket Edge 7 inch ?

First of all watch this comparison video between Samsung Galaxy tab vs IPad from CNET and tell me what you think ? Agreed with the result ? Even with the front and back camera Samsung Galaxy Tab still can not beat the IPad ! If you ask me, I must say I kind of IPad over Samsung Galaxy Tab. But imagine could it be better If IPad is coming with back and front camera ? With that, you can Facetime with your friends, spouse and your family via IPad (I know Facetime is some kind of battery eater app but I believe that this problem will be fixed in the future).

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Some has been said that If you would like to get the IPad you better wait for the 2nd generation which most of the rumors reported it will comes with the camera ! But for the USB port I don’t think Apple will put USB port on their IPad because conceptually IPad is not the Netbook (Apple has Macbook Air with new low price for that). I think it’s more like multimedia tablet which no need for instant transferring via USB port.

IPad accessories with discount price @ AMAZON