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iPad Cases & Accessories Reviews UK - iPad Flip Case in Blue from MobileFun.co.uk

OK, this review was supposed to have been published last Monday. Two things stood in the way of that... First was that I forgot Monday was a bank holiday and therefore I would definitely have a to do list from the love of my life. Second, our hot water tank sprung a leak, so all my best laid plans remained just that... Plans.

So I received this iPad case just over a week ago from the chaps at Mobile Fun to see what I thought of it. The short version is I really like it. Good quality, functional and does look nice with your pride and joy slipped inside... For the modest price tag of £14.95 and in a selection of different colours, you really can’t go far one with this as a choice. I’m not so sure it would be to most blokes taste though as it does has a bit of a feminine feel in it’s design and colour choices. There are a few minor niggles, but nothing major. Frankly it’s a bargain and well worth more than it’s price tag suggests.

Longer and more detailed review after you click the jump below...

UK iTunes iPad App Store open for business - UK iPad early adopters quietly cheer!

Looks like the UK iTunes store has opened its doors for business in readiness for the Friday launch of the iPad here in the UK. 

 
 

So, those of you who have hooked up a fake address and bought some US iTunes gift certificates on eBay can now relax and get you purchases legit.

Just note that if you are using the US iTunes store at the moment and expect to see the iPad/iPhone buttons at the top of the App store, you won't. But search results will show you the iPad and iPhone apps segregated. No doubt we shall be seeing those buttons over night for Friday morning.

It seems that this may actually be a global things as many of the other iTunes stores are reportedly showing the same availability. 

MobileMe web interface can't be used on the iPad - Sorry Apple, that's a serious FAIL!

 

I really don't know where to start here... As a lover of pretty much all of the offerings that Apple makes available to us mere mortals, MobileMe has pretty much sucked at most of the things it does for pretty much most of the time.

Extremely slow file transfer and file navigation; Back to my Mac almost never working (it's the 'almost' that enrages me as it CAN work with my setup, just mainly chooses NOT to) and to be honest, for the price, the online storage space is rather limited.

But, to be told when going to www.me.com (as in the image above) on my nice shiny new iPad, that I have to use some crappy low resolution iPhone apps to interact with it instead of the nicely polished web interface they have developed I am afraid is nothing other than a huge FAIL in my books.

I can fully understand Apples refusal to allow Flash on their babies, but to refuse you to be able to use the one thing it touts as its major strength - the web and it's own part of the web - defies belief.

Do the MobileMe people actually work for Apple or Adobe? 

To not be able to use Apples flagship online application suite on their flagship piece of hardware is without a doubt one of the biggest own goals I have ever seen.

Is this some kind of compromise to Adobe to try to placate them? 

"OK, if we won't allow your web services on the iPad, then we won't allow ours either"?

The web interface to MobileMe is crying out - no, begging to be used on the iPad. You'd almost think the MobileMe web environment was purpose designed for the iPad.

To not even create descent versions of the iPhone apps specifically for the iPad at the very least is equally amazing. To date, Mobile Me has always been the one 'little' thing that has let the side down for Apple. But this, quite frankly is worthy of a Microsoft planning decision.

Apple... Please sort this embarrassing FAIL out as soon as you can. It makes this part of your business look like amateurs and takes the shine off all you are working for...

Rant over... Feel better ;-)

I have heard that Safari on the iPad can't handle Rich Text Editors... Please tell me this isn't so!