First day back after Easter hols. I should be writing about how great it is to get a seat again. Or how sore my feet are after the marathon. But what has really caught my interest this week is that I saw an iPad yesterday (well, last week now as I post). Oh, yes. Saw one, held it, played games with it, watched a preview of Ocean’s 13 on it. But I’ll be honest, I didn’t fall for it, not the way I did with my iPhone.

Believe me when I say I wanted it to be love at first sight. I haven’t stopped loving my iPhone (who has?). And I know it’s practically bigamy, but I thought this bigger, bolder, faster, brighter version would simply blow me away. That I would lose interest in the adolescent pocket wonder, and go for this grown-up sophisticated version instead. But it didn’t blow me away at all.

Maybe these things take time. Maybe it was too like a speed date — there were a lot of people all wanting to have a go so I only got a few minutes. I can recall my first date with my iPhone, and if I’m honest, there wasn’t what you could call the coup de foudre then, either. Like any relationship, you have to work at it; it takes time, and effort, a willingness on both parts, and a certain amount of compromise if you’re going to gel.

So perhaps if I spent more time with the iPad (although the UK launch has been delayed again, I read), we could make a go of it. My tech wizard in the office tells me it will revolutionise our lives, and I love a good revolution, me.

For now, though, I just can’t see the point of it. It’s not a phone (put that to your ear and you’ll be a laughing stock — think Dom Joly Trigger Happy TV). It’s not a laptop. I typed — tapped (the first time — blowed if I can find where it landed on my laptop though) — with one hand, using my thumb, and you need both hands for the iPad, one to hold it, the other to tap. You can get a keyboard attachment and a stand, but surely these accoutrements a laptop makes. So where’s the Big Idea?

If you want to watch a movie in cattle class on a plane and you’re miles from the screen, I’d say it was brilliant (especially if it came with a Velcro attachment and you can stick it to the back of the chair in front). And the Winnie the Pooh book that comes free with it (indeed any eBooks) would be perfect to read to the junior Apples in your family. In fact anything you need a big screen for, it’s just the ticket, so as well as films you can count newspapers, most websites… Okay, it’s not as cute or dinky as the pocket iPhone, but maybe it’s only a matter of time.

But don’t call Relate yet. Divorce lawyers, don’t hold your (barely affordable) breath. I’ll still be in need of a phone, after all.