I recently got an iPad, latest version three weeks ago and have had to work
with it to get it all set up for my sighted husband to use. It is much
harder to use and find things on the screen than my iPhone and I have not
found anything it can do that my iPhone can't do better. I did buy the
speed dots screen protector which only comes in portrait mode by the way.
It did help with the typing but I also bought an Amazon basics keyboard to
see if I could use the iPad for any actual typing documents, etc. For my
husband, it is great-much easier for a total computer novice-but he is
sighted and uses it without voice over.
So my advice is not to put out the money for an iPad unless you can see it.
I love my 64 bit iPhone 5 much more and find it very easy to navigate with
the speed dots screen protector!
As to the question of using an iPad to save battery life I bought one of the
cases with the extra battery built in for my iPhone so when the phone gets
low on battery I just flick the switch on the case to recharge it. In fact,
in the first week we had the iPad the battery went totally dead overnight
two times. I had the screen lock set to only lock when the cover was closed
and evidently the cover did not close properly those times. Now I set it to
lock in ten minutes and have not had the problem again. The iPad is much
slower at recharging than the phone, too.
Sherrie Gosling.
-----Original Message-----
From: Krister Ekstrom
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 6:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Ipad
Hi there,
I would love to have a full size IPad because it is easier to type on it
than it is on the internal keyboard of an IPhone, but on the other hand, the
IPad has such a big screen that it more often than not misinterprets my
gestures especially when i try swiping to the left. Maybe people don’t use
the swiping gestures at all on the IPad, or how do people go about with
that? That was in any case why i sold my ipads. I don’t want to get an IPad
mini if the performance isn’t as good as a full sized one, if the processor
is slower for example.
I also don’t know what screen orientation to use. This is probably a matter
of preference, but i seem to remember that people said to use the landscape
mode, because it was better on an ipad for some reason, well that didn’t
work so good for me but since i was under the impression that Landscape was
the preferred screen orientation i tried as best i could with it.
/Krister
2 nov 2013 kl. 10:00 skrev RobH. <[email protected]>:
This is about the norm, certainly how I used it at the time. I swapped it
for a second phone, now notice the battery life.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris H" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Ipad
My plan if I get one is to use the iPad at home or at a family or
friend's house and use the iPhone when out and about and obviously for
cellular calls and sms messages. Thoughts?
E-mail Facebook and iMessage
[email protected]
On 02/11/2013 02:57, Billy Maynard wrote:
hi,
I have thought about getting an IPad but, is there any reason since I
have an iPhone and it'll do most of the same things or is there a big
difference in the two divices beyond a larger screen? given the latest
stuff I'm not sure if IPads are still produced or if iPad mini and iPad
air I'm not sure what the differences are. or would the pads be any
use to a blind person since I can't really use the larger display?
Thanks for any and all input on this question.
Sincerely,
Billy Maynard
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