Apple iPad video reviews round-up

Scores of journalists were out at the Apple Tablet event yesterday, getting their fingerprints all over those lovely new Apple iPads. However, some had video cameras pointing at them too.

We’ve scoured the net for all the best video previews of Apple’s device, which will be available in the UK in March.

Joystiq
Joystiq’s Chris Grant captured a great video of the Apple iPad running Need for Speed: Shift. Grant demonstrates how the ‘upscale’ button works on the device, which is what you’ll be using to run any iPhone games that haven’t been optimised for use on iPad.

Check out the video over at Viddler

iPad Insider
If you want to see Steve Jobs checking out the iPad himself, take a look at this video of the press conference itself, as captured by iPad Insider. It’s a good quality vid, and the other parts of the conference can be found on YouTube.

SlidetoPlay
Most tech folks focused on the games featured in the press conference when taking video of the iPad, but SlidetoPlay was a little more ambitious, snapping vids of a handful of different games including Super Monkey Ball 2. Check out one of the previews below.

Fox News
Of course, the iPad isn’t just all about games. Fox News took a video demonstrating the e-book functionality of the device, showing how its page turning is quite different from that of the Amazon Kindle.

Engadget
For an all-round look at the iPad, Engadget’s video hands-on is a good bet. It runs through some of iWork’s features, the e-book reader app, iTunes, YouTube and several other bits too. It’s essentially a real-life version of what Jobs did in his presentation.

Check out the video here