In follow-up to my earlier post I wanted to share my thoughts now that I’ve actually used my iPad during my day to day routine.

I’m still very pleased with the hardware.   The size is just about perfect for taking to a meeting or sitting on the couch.  I haven’t yet traveled with it but will have that opportunity next week.   I expect it to be great for use on the plane.

When using the Apple case I find that sitting the slightly raised iPad down on the table to be at the perfect angle for typing.

The battery life is great.   While I had my initial concerns about the inability to charge the iPad with anything but the included wall charger, that hasn’t proved to be as big of an issue as I expected.   In reality I haven’t dropped below 60% battery usage after 2 days of fairly heavy  usage.  I just plug it in the wall charger at night before I go to bed.   I still think they will need to address the issue but it’s not bothering me.

The browser is absolutely fantastic.    Aside from the obvious and unfortunate omission of flash support it is actually a really capable device for basic web surfing.   Initially I was concerned that there is no native Facebook application that leverages the capabilities of the iPad.     I’ve actually found using the full web version of Facebook to be great thanks to the screen real estate and the capabilities of Safari.   I would argue that thanks to the touch interface surfing the web might actually be better on the iPad compared to a traditional PC.

I really can see the potential to lower my dependency on my laptop for basic tasks.   In example, I’ve found it to be particularly useful for basic emailing and calendar activities.   Contrary to my iPhone it is actually pretty easy to type on, copy/paste, etc.   I don’t mind writing an email on my iPhone in a pinch but it’s not something I would do regularly.   With the iPad it’s actually a much more pleasurable experience.

I’ve also been enjoying a few additional applications:

Kindle for iPad – To correct my earlier post, it turns out there is a Kindle app for the iPad.   I’m happy to see this since I have a decent investment in ebooks from Amazon.  The UI is fine, but not as polished as Apple’s iBook.

Evernote for iPad  -  I’m already a big user of Evernote so the iPad version was very welcome.   I used this in meetings yesterday and today to take notes.   It’s great to sit the iPad down on a conference table to keep track of what is being discussed.   I think this use case has the potential to be the single greatest “killer app” to bring the iPad to the enterprise.

Twitterific for iPad -   I had been using Tweetie 2 on my iPhone as of late for interaction with twitter.   Based on the great reviews of Twitterific for iPad I gave it a shot.    This is a much better UI for interacting with twitter, thanks to the additional screen real estate.  I’m hopeful that the folks behind Tweetie will come out with an iPad version because there are some features missing in Twitterific.   I particularly enjoy the location aware components of Tweetie including searching for “tweets near me” and the inclusion of google maps links when a tweet includes lat/lon information.