Apple Ipad Review

Yanko Design in conjunction with the awesome folks at ColcaSac is doing an iPad Giveaway. One lucky person gets to WIN a 16GB WiFi iPad and A lovely ColcaSac Zagora iPad Sleeve to match it! As most contests go, you have to do something to win it, so here is the drill: STEP 1) Pick Your Favorite ColcaSac iPad Sleeve from the list below, STEP 2) Fan Yanko Design on Facebook, STEP 3) Tag 3 Friends (using @) on Yanko Design’s Wall on Facebook and tell them which ColcaSac Sleeve you like the best, & you’re winning an iPad! The contest is open Worldwide!

A background on ColcaSac

ColcaSac is a company that makes many kinda sleeves for devices, but here we are focusing on their iPad range. The design is well thought out and includes niches like a power adaptor pocket. The handmade sleeves are stitched from tough materials that are easy on the environment. Moreover the range is quite affordable at $35 each! Checkout their Fanpage here.

Zagora iPad Sleeve

This is the sleeve that the lucky iPad winner is going to take home! Made from heavy duty 18.5 oz basketweave hemp canvas, this black beauty matches the heavy kohl eyes of an Arabic belly dancer!

Cusco iPad Sleeve

The Cusco iPad Sleeve is made from made from hand loomed, naturally grown cotton from Oaxaca Mexico. What’s special about this cotton is that the farmers grow their crop without using pesticides and this practice has been on for generations! Makes people turn green with envy!

Damask iPad Sleeve

The legacy of the Damask pattern (named after the city of Damascus) continues with this sleeve… The Damask is made from finely printed cotton and is reinforced with a second layer of cotton. The vivid blue with black is astonishing!

Hanakapiai iPad Sleeve

Sourced from the hemp grown and harvested in rural China, the Hanakapiai iPad Sleeve features a dark brown, heavy duty 18.5 oz basketweave hemp canvas. Needless to say, the hemp is grown naturally without pesticides.

The Federale iPad Sleeve

Loud and dramatic, the orange on the Federale iPad Sleeve suits it best! I adore this particular shade for its tinge and wonder if the “not certified as organic cotton” tag has anything to do with it!

To state the steps once again for you:

STEP 1) Pick Your Favorite ColcaSac iPad Sleeve from the list above

STEP 2) Fan Yanko Design on Facebook

STEP 3) Tag 3 Friends (using @) on Yanko Design’s Wall on Facebook and tell them which ColcaSac Sleeve you like the best, and that you may win an iPad!

Rules:

The contest is open to ALL countries as our sponsor ColcaSac will ship your prize to your doorstep!

Contest Closes: 15th August 11:59 pm PST Contest Closed

According to a survey of UK iPad owners put forth by Cooper Murphy Webb, people who own iPads are now using them as their preferred device for reading newspapers, magazines and books. Of the 1,034 iPad owners polled via telephone between July 28th and August 10th, 43% use the iPad for more than 10 hours per week, with most of those usage hours taking place in home.

While the iPad dominates among users  for text based activities like perusing magazines and books, the laptop still holds strong  as a primary entertainment device — perhaps due to the iPad’s lack of Flash support. I know that I have been discouraged from readily picking up an iPad to watch online video from the Pavlovian effect of those disappointing little blue legos.

Giving ammunition to the “iPad Will Save Reading” camp, 31% of iPad users prefer their iPad to their laptop, mobile phone, e-reader and print media for reading newspapers and magazines, perhaps due to the innovative presentation of news put forward by aggregator iPad apps like Flipboard and Pulse.

And moreover 41% of iPad owners prefer the iPad for reading books, which bodes well for iPad apps like iBooks, Kindle for iPad, and  Barnes and Noble.

As a side note to and probably as a byproduct of text consumption, the iPad is also preferred for Internet browsing among UK owners at 38% and gaming at 37% respectively.

iPad owners may be a skewed sample in terms of consumption habits — six times more likely to be “wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated” according to one survey — and UK owners even more so. But at over 3.27 million iPads officially sold at the end of Quarter 3 (our educated guess is around 5 million so far), Job’s magical and revolutionary product is gaining inroads in the way people at least say they partake in the written word, if they happen to be in the ever increasing class of people that own one.

Photo: Cliph