We love viewing our geotagged photos by location in Photos.
If you want to show off your iPad’s amazingness and you haven’t downloaded a single App Store offering, just fire up Photos.
The Photos tab shows all your images in a grid, and the Albums and Events tabs sort them into stacks that you can expand with a “reverse pinch” gesture. Faces organizes your photos based on who’s in them--but the sorting and tagging is still done in iPhoto on your Mac, not on the iPad. And the Places tab plots any geotagged photos on a map that’s incredibly fun to zoom in and out of, tapping the pins to see photos from that locale.
Slideshow options and the ability to email one or more photos from right within the app make Photos the most polished and fun-to-use first-party app on the iPad. Grade: A
Notes is pretty much the same as the iPhone version, though it adds a list of your notes on the left when viewing in landscape mode. Notes can still be emailed or synced back to your Mac via iTunes. And it’s still kind of a snooze. Grade: C
Songs! Get your songs here! And movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and iTunes U content. It even supports movie rentals right to your iPad. It needs advanced search options, though. Grade: B-
Also the same as on the iPhone, YouTube’s videos look great, and you can log in to your account to access your uploads, favorites list, and subscriptions. Functional and un-flashy. Grade: B
Oy, what a mess. The navigation is terrible, even worse than the App Store within iTunes on your Mac. It also lets you rate apps you don’t own--huh? And just browsing apps is a soul-crushing experience--would it be that hard to add a search filter or seven? A total redesign is badly needed. Here’s hoping Apple tackles that soon. Grade: D
Unlike on the iPhone, your videos are kept in a separate app from your music. The iPod app fills the extra screen space with a column to the left, your albums on the right, and popup windows breaking down the tracks by album. Videos has simple navigation and works in portrait or landscape. We were effortlessly entertained. Grade: A- for both
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