Pro iPad Review – Heavy tablet, but wonderful device – XGN.nl

Bigger is better. That must have thought Apple when the company recently launched the iPad Pro. It is the biggest tablet ever. Our verdict read in this review iPad Pro.

The iPad Pro is a bin of beast, a monster. But it may also if you need to reach pretty deep into their pockets. Because you’re not ready earlier than 919 euro and that is a considerable amount. You pay for advanced technology, because the iPad Pro is a pretty cool eh .. PC tablet with famous features as you might expect. Think about Siri support and using a finger scan to log in.

The tablet has a 12.9 inch screen and a resolution of 2732 x 2048. Which application you use, everything looks in great detail and that is very pleasing to the eyes. And if for example you play a movie via Netflix you can not help but realize that you will be completely blown away by the quality. And let’s be honest: a larger screen to watch a movie or look back at the one television program is much finer than in a smaller size as the iPad Air 2 (or the rest of the previously released models)

Delicious watching movies with the built-in speakers

What is also of very high added value, the four built-in speakers. Especially if you are a movie setup, you notice that the sound quality is better than previous iPads. You can safely say that if you’re somewhere iPad and want to create your own little small cinema, you can. Less important, but indeed it is convenient that the sound is adapted to the way you tilt the iPad and thus have in hand.

However, most will not get an iPad (let alone this Pro) at home to create a movie somewhere. Maybe you’re a video creator himself! Professional or not, almost everyone nowadays movies to make and therefore the assembly. Apple goes well with the times, because if something is hot under video creators, then it is called 4K. For example if you have an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6S possession, you can shoot images in 4K and mount on the iPad Pro. Again, handy when you’re on the go. In addition, the Pro does everything except slow, due to an improved chip and a faster processor compared with the iPad Air 2.

The iPad Pro is for everyone

An important question is whether the iPad pro can and should be considered as a laptop replacement. Yes and no. Maybe that Apple is a resounding ‘yes’ ambition, but let’s be honest: if you’re working simultaneously in many programs, and to work quickly, then that as always are always better on a laptop or desktop (with the mouse) than an iPad Pro. It’s good to see that the options are more sophisticated, but be aware that the Pro is certainly not a replacement device.

You do not go the whole day working on an iPad Pro. That seems almost unlikely. Though it is true that there is a keyboard for the Netherlands is in the works (which unfortunately we have not been able to test)

The second important question is to whom the Pro is actually exactly meant. Many people think it’s just for businessmen. That is a wrong notion. Make no mistake: the iPad Pro is actually for everyone: for you, for me, for your mother, your neighbor. This sounds silly, but that is certainly not meant to be.

Thanks to the fine options and many (small) improvement is simply a fine device for various people. Whether you just want to surf, a game wants to play, wants to check an app, the iPad Pro is your best friend. But if we are critical, we recommend’m not really that kind of users. Gaming is not, for example up to its promise. A game like Geometry Wars looks ridiculously good further out also sounds great with all those built-in speakers, but the Pro is much too bulky in the hand to play games really nice. The previous smaller models are more appropriate. Although there is the possibility of a controller to buy.

People who really value the Pro can take include engineers, doctors and artists. Ingenious have many design and drawing. The iPad Pro is very suitable. Thanks to a pencil (not included), this group can draw to your heart’s in AutoCad and with much precision.

Twisted handy pen

That pen should not be underestimated, because the possibilities are endless. A thick stripe, a thin line and everything in between: the thing registers everything. And everything seems to run smoothly. A modern paintbrush in hand and so it is a fine piece of engineering for cartoonists and other artists.

Furthermore, the iPad Pro can be very useful in science. An example which yours truly got the hots for example is that a doctor talking to a patient can show via the iPad Pro drawings of the human body and then gives more information. The Pro is graphic such a monster, that enough can zoom in on details. How many people do not come to call, and then think that a doctor talking abracadbra? Such a Pro would partly because of its size can help.

In addition, you can on the iPad Pro multitasking (for example, though it was also previously on the iPad Air 2). While you have left a page open, you can just as quickly swipe your notes and get it. You can quickly switch between your thoughts and what you’re watching. Or suppose for example, that you quickly through swipe to open your email. You choose your preference!

Nice but expensive

We’re definitely enthusiastic about the iPad Pro, because this is simply the best tablet that Apple has delivered. Only the device is not recommended for everyone. You should be aware that the device is expensive (the most expensive variant is about 1200 euros!) And heavy in the hand. He is relatively light and lighter than a laptop. But if you are a person who often just want to surf and take an iPad at hand, then the Pro is not suitable. Then we recommend the iPad Air 2. The Pro puts you more down on a table.

Think of it not as a laptop replacement in the office, especially if you do a lot of video editing. Indeed you want to have around for example the Pro settings go. This also applies to other audiences: it is a very nice tablet which is very desirable in many applications because it provides easiness. It’s a monster of a device that works very well, but ask yourself what you ‘m going to use. And then do you know if you really have to open up your wallet. Our advice is: not for everyone, but for many. Though it remains duur!

The three best new apps for your iPad # 122 – Tablets Magazine

The many available apps make the iPad of course the most. That’s why we bring you weekly the best, most interesting, best and most useful apps for your new iPad. This time, include an app that brings back the old arcade racer feeling.

Last Horizon

Last Horizon you go looking for a new planet on to live, because the earth is exhausted. Using a compass is designated where the new planet. You must also take into account the amount of fuel and oxygen in your rocket. When that runs out in the past. Fuel and oxygen you can supplement by landing on planets, but that shoot projectiles, to have different gravity which makes it a lot harder than you think.

Last Horizon can be downloaded for € 2.99 in the App Store.

Football Manager Touch 2016

This year, Sega made two versions Football Manager for iPhone and iPad. The normal mobile version is suitable for all phones and tablets, the Touch version is more demanding and only available for the new iPad’s. The touch version distinguishes itself through simulation games, which are now being simulated in 3D. The rest of the game remained the same. The goal is still that you as a coach and coach your team to the top leads by making the setup, players to attract and test new tactics

Touch Football Manager 2016 will cost € 19.99 and includes in-app purchases

Star Wars:.. Galaxy of Heroes

In December, the new Star Wars movie, and you notice that when you look in the App Store. Thus, last week, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes released the tension even more to build. The game is made by EA in collaboration with the makers of the film, so the correct name is used for all the characters. The game is a turn-based game , where you and your opponent take turns may make a move. The game requires some thinking and tactical insight

Star Wars:..? Galaxy of Heroes is free to download but contains in-app purchases

What apps do you use

Do you have any apps that should not be missed on an iPad? I like to read about in the comments, I’ll take them for next time.

The three best new apps for your iPad # 122 – Tablets Magazine

The many available apps make the iPad of course the most. That’s why we bring you weekly the best, most interesting, best and most useful apps for your new iPad. This time, include an app that brings back the old arcade racer feeling.

Last Horizon

Last Horizon you go looking for a new planet on to live, because the earth is exhausted. Using a compass is designated where the new planet. You must also take into account the amount of fuel and oxygen in your rocket. When that runs out in the past. Fuel and oxygen you can supplement by landing on planets, but that shoot projectiles, to have different gravity which makes it a lot harder than you think.

Last Horizon can be downloaded for € 2.99 in the App Store.

Football Manager Touch 2016

This year, Sega made two versions Football Manager for iPhone and iPad. The normal mobile version is suitable for all phones and tablets, the Touch version is more demanding and only available for the new iPad’s. The touch version distinguishes itself through simulation games, which are now being simulated in 3D. The rest of the game remained the same. The goal is still that you as a coach and coach your team to the top leads by making the setup, players to attract and test new tactics

Touch Football Manager 2016 will cost € 19.99 and includes in-app purchases

Star Wars:.. Galaxy of Heroes

In December, the new Star Wars movie, and you notice that when you look in the App Store. Thus, last week, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes released the tension even more to build. The game is made by EA in collaboration with the makers of the film, so the correct name is used for all the characters. The game is a turn-based game , where you and your opponent take turns may make a move. The game requires some thinking and tactical insight

Star Wars:..? Galaxy of Heroes is free to download but contains in-app purchases

What apps do you use

Do you have any apps that should not be missed on an iPad? I like to read about in the comments, I’ll take them for next time.

iPad gives IC patient voice – Medical Facts

Patients who are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Isala are hardly able to explain how they feel or what they are hurt. This is often caused by serious injury or by a language barrier. The recovery is very important that a patient can present. In collaboration with Friends of Isala eight iPads were purchased. The app “Voice” helps patients communicate again without requiring much energy is needed. More information: www.vriendenvanisala.nl

Esther van Veen, critical care nurse at Isala says: “It is important that patients have the ability to tell what they feel, what they think about it and ask questions. It is a beautiful and simple app that gives patients a voice.

Voice

The app was developed by UMC St Radboud in Nijmegen and consists of several themes that the patient can choose from. “My body ‘is one of those topics where they can indicate whether they have pain, where it sits and through a pain score however serious pain. But the app offers more. So patients see what time it is, what day it is and they can draw and type. Esther: “Previously, people wrote on a piece of paper, which was not always legible. And since the talk again is so difficult, they get frustrated because they can not make himself understood. “

Contact ensures faster recovery

Patients not only communicate more easily and quickly with doctors and nurses, but also with their families. Esther: ‘Patients who stay long with us, have the ability to create a personal profile on the iPad where family can leave a personal message. Skype and face timing also ensures personal contact. For patients every day is pretty much the same so the interest in the outside world increases. Thanks to the tablets, they can read the newspaper or even look back a missed broadcast. Very important for the recovery. Both staff and patients are excited about the arrival of the iPad. “

Help from Friends of Isala

Esther: “Friends of Isala makes it possible to achieve through sponsorship projects. I want to express my gratitude. We get it together to make the stay more comfortable for our patients, because we are proud of.

The iPad helps the IC patient to better communicate with her doctor.

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iPad gives IC patient voice – Medical Facts

Patients who are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Isala are hardly able to explain how they feel or what they are hurt. This is often caused by serious injury or by a language barrier. The recovery is very important that a patient can present. In collaboration with Friends of Isala eight iPads were purchased. The app “Voice” helps patients communicate again without requiring much energy is needed. More information: www.vriendenvanisala.nl

Esther van Veen, critical care nurse at Isala says: “It is important that patients have the ability to tell what they feel, what they think about it and ask questions. It is a beautiful and simple app that gives patients a voice.

Voice

The app was developed by UMC St Radboud in Nijmegen and consists of several themes that the patient can choose from. “My body ‘is one of those topics where they can indicate whether they have pain, where it sits and through a pain score however serious pain. But the app offers more. So patients see what time it is, what day it is and they can draw and type. Esther: “Previously, people wrote on a piece of paper, which was not always legible. And since the talk again is so difficult, they get frustrated because they can not make himself understood. “

Contact ensures faster recovery

Patients not only communicate more easily and quickly with doctors and nurses, but also with their families. Esther: ‘Patients who stay long with us, have the ability to create a personal profile on the iPad where family can leave a personal message. Skype and face timing also ensures personal contact. For patients every day is pretty much the same so the interest in the outside world increases. Thanks to the tablets, they can read the newspaper or even look back a missed broadcast. Very important for the recovery. Both staff and patients are excited about the arrival of the iPad. “

Help from Friends of Isala

Esther: “Friends of Isala makes it possible to achieve through sponsorship projects. I want to express my gratitude. We get it together to make the stay more comfortable for our patients, because we are proud of.

The iPad helps the IC patient to better communicate with her doctor.

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With Swingy iPad you control games with your feet – iculture

Swingy is a fun new way to play games. With your feet you can control a game on the iPad. The game controller consists of two wooden balance boards where you stand on your feet. By tilting forward and backward control the game. In the wooden pedals are incorporated sensors that are wirelessly connected to the iPhone or iPad.

Update : This project has not raised enough money .

Swingy you immediately get some exercise. The product is made of wood and is designed for children from 4 years. The first game to have coined the makers Swing Pong. In addition, you control with your feet the two bars in the game. Try the ball as long as possible to keep the game from the bar on time at the right place to turn. You have 5 lives.

Swingy invites children to be active and to their balance and coordination to work. They train there once the muscles needed it to have good posture. To their fifteenth children develop their system to remain in balance, argue the authors, which by the way have worked with doctors, teachers and physiologists to make you fall in Swingy no bump. With a good balance children perform better in sports, such as cycling, skiing, climbing, ice skating and rollerblading.

Swingy to Order through Kickstarter in several variants. For $ 55 you have the two wooden pedals without the sensors. For $ 88 you have a working version with sensors so you can play games. Later, these wooden pedals will cost $ 140.

iPad vs. Surface Pro Pro 4 review: what is the best? – RTL Z

Both Apple and Microsoft make this year a tablet with keyboard out. One is primarily a tablet, the other is mainly a laptop. Who made the best device

Microsoft was ridiculed by many when it introduced the Surface: a tablet with a keyboard dock that can be used as a laptop. Characteristic of the Surface is the kickstand on the back, which you him can put upright. Surface Pro 4 is the latest model of Microsoft, which has been on sale since November this year.

iPad Pro is from November sale, and can be just like the Surface Pro 4 will be put upright. Apple has even developed a keyboard cover that allows you the big iPad also can use as laptop. The Smart Keyboard is not yet available in the Netherlands, but Logitech offers its Create-keyboard solution.

Both devices are quite similar, but differ in use. The iPad Pro is primarily a tablet: a large iPad you can attach a keyboard. The Surface Pro 4 is especially a laptop, which can not really be used as a functional tablet by the lack of apps.

Design and screen
the iPad Pro features a 12.9-inch screen with a resolution of 2732 by 2048 pixels. Below the screen is to find the same fingerprint scanner as in the iPhone 6S . The housing is made of aluminum, as with other Apple products. The size of the iPad Pro is similar to two iPad Minis which are placed next to each other. To put it simple: the iPad Pro is primarily a bigger iPad

The Surface Pro 4 has a slightly smaller 12.3-inch screen with a resolution of 2736 by 1824 pixels. The screen looks with its widescreen aspect ratio more like a screen of a normal laptop. An advantage of the Surface Pro 4 are the connections, such as USB and a microSD port. The Microsoft tablet is thicker than the iPad Pro, but they weigh almost the same.

Unlike the iPad, the Surface Pro Pro 4 can be put in many different positions. This is due to the handy aluminum kickstand at the back, which you can rotate in any desired position. This gives the user the ability to use the Surface Pro 4 in bed, on the lap or while cooking.

keyboard
Both tablets are not supplied with a keyboard, but are intended to be used with the accessory. The Surface Pro 4 has a keyboard that is largely similar to a normal laptop. The plastic keys can be good impressions and letting you type fast. At the bottom is also a trackpad present, with which you control the mouse pointer. The trackpad works alone are not always accurate, making the tiny bluetooth mouse from Microsoft is often extracted from the backpack.

The official iPad Pro keyboard from Apple is not yet for sale in the Netherlands. For the review we have therefore used the Create Logitech, which also acts as a protective cover. The plastic keys can be just like the Surface Pro 4 good impressions, although the iron bottom during winter days quite cold to the touch. In addition, the keyboard has no touchpad. Apple does not support such displays are not in iOS.

The lack of a touchpad is the first major difference between the two devices. While the Surface Pro 4 used primarily as a normal laptop, you have the iPad Pro frequent use your fingers to open apps for example. So you change much between the keyboard and the screen, which works fine less than the combination of a keyboard and trackpad.

Stylus Both devices also come with
a stylus. The stylus Microsoft is shorter and thicker, the Apple Pencil longer and thinner. The coarser material of the Microsoft stylus is finer in use, but the Apple Pencil looking back at what nicer. In practice, they are very similar: you can push hard or soft for a thick or thin line, and both tablets respond quickly and accurately to presses, even if you lean your arm or hand on the screen

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An advantage of the Microsoft stylus that has a rubber cup at the top that allows you to erase. When the iPad Pro you should select the eraser in the menu on the sign-app. Additionally, you can attach the Surface stylus via a magnet to the side of the tablet, while you have to take apart Apple’s Pencil.

Microsoft’s stylus is powered by a small AAAA battery energy, you can quite easily replace. Apple Pencil uses a different method. The top of the stylus is a cap that you can remove it. Underneath you’ll find a Lightning connector that can be stabbing in the port at the bottom of the iPad Pro. Let him sit for fifteen seconds and get back thirty minutes to draw.

One problem: the charging method is dangerous because the connector can break at the slightest provocation. That’s why Apple offers another charge connector in, so you can charge your Apple Pencil in the same way as the iPad Pro: simply using the supplied charging cable. Be careful that you do not lose that connector because the white plastic thingy is really extremely small.

Software
The big difference between the Surface Pro 4 and iPad Pro is the software. The former runs on Windows 10, the Pro iPad on iOS 9. Windows 10 is especially designed for PCs and laptops, but also on tablets, phones and even rotate consoles. iOS was originally developed for smartphones, and that you can see. The row of icons consists of four apps, creating a lot of screen space remains unused. This frequently gives the impression that you’re using an iPad for which the software is not optimized at all.

That is not so. For example, the iPad Pro supports multitasking app with two screens side by side. This can be useful if you are in the first screen, composing an e-mail and search the second screen information. The Surface Pro 4 supports multitasking with two screens side by side. On both devices, it works fine and productive. The iPad Pro runs only apps, the Surface Pro 4 also supports ‘normal’ computer programs. Take for example Photoshop. On the iPad Pro, you can only use the slimmed iOS version of the program allows the Surface Pro 4 editing you with the full version of Windows images.

The Surface Pro 4 on the other hand not really use as a tablet. Many Windows programs are not optimized for touch control, so the buttons are too small to have good press. The apps have been optimized for the touch screen also works not as smooth as iOS apps. The Surface Pro 4 can be used well as a tablet while watching a video, but not much more than that.

An innovative feature of the Surface Pro 4 Hello Windows, which allows you unlock the computer by looking at the front camera. This works remarkably well. Your face is often recognized within a second, even in dark environments. Pressing the fingerprint scanner or entering a PIN or password to feel a little deeper in comparison with Windows Hello.

The advantage of the iPad Pro is then that the battery life is significantly better than that of the Surface Pro 4, the iPad Pro consumes in standby mode much less energy, making you look much longer can use.

Conclusion
Both the Surface Pro 4 and the iPad Pro from November in The Netherlands for sale. The prices of the Surface Pro 4 start at 999 euros for the entry level, the more powerful variant will cost at least 1799 euros. The keyboard is sold separately for 149 euros. The price of the iPad Pro starts at 919 euros for the WiFi model with 32GB of storage and runs until 1249 for the 128GB model with 4G support.

Because both devices are mostly used as a laptop, you can often more with the Surface Pro 4 than the iPad Pro. That’s not to say the iPad Pro is worse. The device is suitable for another purpose.

Are you looking for a great tablet that sometimes you can use as laptop? Then the iPad Pro is the right choice. Looking just a laptop that you can sometimes use as a tablet? Simply choose the Surface Pro 4. It is that simple.

Source • RTL Z / Daniel Verlaan

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