One year later with an iPad
I brought an 32GB iPad 1 about a year ago with without having any clear purpose for it. At the time, I owned an iPhone 3G so it already seemed odd to own two iOS devices (I now have an Orange San Francisco Android) and on top of that, I also owned a Macbook making a total of three portable devices with overlap.
During the initial period, it really did feel like owning and maintaining a second giant iPhone as I was using the same apps albeit on larger screen. The only difference I noticed at the time was that Internet browsing was a much better experience and the general performance was a lot better.
I started to wonder why I brought the iPad in the first place.
Slowly, I started to realise that most of the things I do on my laptop which included web browsing, email and chat, could be done on the iPad.