My Apple experience is brief, an iPod and an IPhone. But if the iPad is esentially an iPhone with a bigger screen, I am reluctant to buy one.

There are so many reasons but just looking at the built-in app Messages is enough. Why can't I store more than 1,000 messages in my mailbox when I have many gigabytes of free space? If I can mark a message as "flagged" or "unread," why can't I also hold it to prevent it from being erased? And the edtitor for composing messages is downright horrible.

If there is a tablet with the build quality of an iPad that can run Word and Outlook, I'm very interested.