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Email, Web browsing, reading technical books, games, photo storage, photo editing, slideshows, watching TV, Twitter, Facebook (even though theres no native iPad app annoyingly), reading (particular technical books where the extra screen real estate really shines), reading my RSS feeds, etc.

I have n iPhone 4 too and will certainly pull that out of my pocket and use it but at home I just prefer the larger screen.

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Composing presentations, preparing invoices, sketching, Monkey Island, writing.

The retina display makes a huge difference for reading, so I tend to use the iPhone for feeds and things, but for anything creative the iPad is the clear winner.

The bigger screen also makes it a great trip/car browsing device. It's sinmply not comfortable to do extensive browsing on a phone. The iPad's niche is the middle-ground between a phone and latptop (between walking mobile and mobile office)

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