iPad has several wow features and has impressed teh fan base. We covered iPad’s Top Five Features in the previous article. This articles lists the biggest disappointments among iPad enthusiasts. Apple is more likely to address these issues in the next model, but for now, here is the whiners list:
1. No Camera
First and foremost disappointment is no camera. I was expecting iPad to have a iSight like camera that they have on Macbook Pros. This immediately jumped to mind that this step is intentional to keep camera option for iPad’s new model later. if it had a camera it could have been a replacement for my Macbook Pro. Perhaps Apple can provide a good reason for omitting this essential feature.
2. No Adobe Flash Player Support.
Apple doesn’t want to run anything on these mobile devices that they don’t have control over. And Flash being notoriously bad for hogging CPU, making things slower and sucking up battery fast. But for bigger device such as iPad with web browsing at its main core feature it should be better because nobody can have a great Web surfing experience without Flash.
3. No Multitasking
iPad is supposed to be a Netbooks replacement as per Steve Jobs so why are still not able to run multiple Apps together with the exception of listening to music? This is also one of the biggest disappointment since multi tasking is a must for everyone these days. iPad has such a powerful processor, apple should have been able to incorporate multitasking on iPads.
4. Video Limitations
iPad screen is 768 pixels high so it appears it will be able to play 720p video without any issues. Wrong! Because 720p video is 1280 pixels wide this crops down the video image size by 20%. So? it will have black bars at the top. But you could easily tap the screen to replete the screen but it would cut off the sides of the image.
5. Doesn’t Support any other carrier’s 3G
iPad is surely unlocked but it wont work on anything other then ATT since it uses micro SIMs. The device uses GSM chip that is not compatible with Verizon’s 3G network. T-Mobile uses GSM 3G but – mind you its a big but – its 3G network runs on 1700 MHz; The iPad GSM chip only supports only these -
- UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
- GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
