The iPad has landed in Britain. Our trembling hands snatched it from a courier just minutes ago, before ripping the packaging apart and photographing it for your viewing pleasure. Want to see what waits inside Apple’s crisp white iPad box? Read on, and gawp at our pictures.
In typical style, Apple’s packaging is minimalist to the extreme. Lift off the lid, and the iPad gleams from within its white cardboard casket. It’s pretty lonely in there too. Just a USB lead and power adapter are included.
No case, no cleaning cloth, and certainly no dock. That’s a marked difference from the first generation of iPhone, which came with all those extras as standard.
Lift the iPad from its box too, and you might be surprised. It’s heavier than it looks, thanks to Apple’s tapered design, but not as heavy as some reports from the US had led us to believe. It feels around half the heft of a typical netbook, and no match for our beefy wrists. This is something we’re not going to struggle holding, or carrying, for any length of time.
Grasp the iPad in your hands, and simply put, it feels right. From the thick black bezel that stops your fingers nudging the touchscreen as you hold it, to the cool aluminium backing. Apple has made this solid slab of glass and metal feel organic, and that’s before tapping the home screen.
Do so, and the iPad’s screen leaps into life, with a simple icon begging you to hook it up to iTunes so it can activate itself, and get started. Do that, and you’re away, with the now familiar home screen popping into life. If you’ve used an iPhone or iPod touch, the scale of the iPad’s icons will startle you. They seem huge, but are responsive and very finger-friendly.
Take a look at our iPad UK unboxing photos in our gallery above, and stay tuned for our full review, and much more besides.
Out now (US only) | From $499 | Apple
