I have been testing the iPad 2 for the last week or so, and it is slimmer, lighter and way superior to the original iPad, which is being sold in South Africa at the moment. It is sad that some people are being sold old technology, when it has already been replaced around the rest of the world, and in this case, with the new version working four times quicker and featuring a camera which the previous version did not, would make little or no sense to get the original iPad. 

My summary, at this time, would be like it is like an iPhone, only larger and whereas the iPhone like any cell phone is not really suited to surfing the Internet, this is, and all the applications built for the iPad would look better, smarter and in most cases have more functions than those for the iPhone, which is still of course the leading phone. Apple is leaving the others trailing in its dust, when it comes to the tablet computer which the iPad is or in the phone category with the iPhone, and I quite frankly cannot see the gap being closed by any other company soon which is probably why the shares, for example of Nokia and of BlackBerry makers, RIM (Research in Motion), have been on the slide.