10 important things you really need to know before buying an iPad

1. If you have an iPhone, and if you’re in love with it, then you’ll live another love story, even more intense. Why that? Because iPad is just a bigger iPhone, an iPhone which took a lot of steroids, if you want. But the iPhone problem transferred with copy/paste to iPad… And the biggest issue is the prison feeling. You buy an iPad and you enter the Alcatraz famous prison. You have to do only what the guardians allow you to do. And the guardians have a name: iTunes and App Store.

2. If the WiFi network you try to connect is not in the best mood, being at a diet, the chances to use the Internet are close to zero. Probably, Steve Jobs searched a lot the worst WiFi device in the entire World (and the less expensive). If the network is strong, the iPad works at full power. If not, you need a lot of Advil to survive… Just to compare, where a Dell Vostro v13 has 4 lines from 5 (WiFi), same the Acer Aspire laptop, iPad has only one tiny line. And you’ll try to choose network so many times with the risk of destroying the touch screen…

3. If you buy an iPad 3G and you think all your problems have gone, then you’re wrong, of course. As we expected, Apple decided to be different this time, too. So, your SIM from AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Vodafone or Orange, doesn’t work! Steve Jobs forced all the big world mobile phones operators to change the SIM size for his iPad. It’s a smaller one… Some guys from Romania or India managed to cut with a scissor the SIM in order to introduce it into the iPad. And it works. But if you’re not good in doing scissor thing, then you have to wait until all the GSM operators will introduce this SIM.

4. If you want to see some video news from CNN.com or ESPN.com, then you have to forget about it. As you maybe saw in the newspapers, Jobs declared total war to Adobe, ant its Flash software. So, like the Nazi Soup said in Seinfeld (“No soup for you!”), you’ll get a message from your iPad saying: No flash for you! And, you’ll have to wait until the news are published on YouTube, in a compatible format… That’s very annoying because, if I well remember, the broadband connection was invented for huge amounts of data transfer, especially videos…

5. If you were a Nokia 3310 fan because of its incredible battery life, then you’ll be more than happy with your new iPad. After 3 days of extensive use, my iPad still has 41% energy. And this is impressive, considering the screen size and the processor power!

6. If you like to read e-books or electronic newspapers, then the iPad is the best thing that could happen to you! Reading e-books is easier than never. Using your finger you can go to each page you desire. Nook, Kindle or Sony e-readers play in another league. It’s sad to say that, but this is the naked true! But… of course there is always a but, if you want to read some stolen e-books, from I don’t know what European country, just forget it. It doesn’t work. And speaking about some European countries (and not only), iTunes Store is still inaccessible.

7. If you want to transfer some photos from your PC into iPad, using an USB cable, then go to do some jogging or some shopping. You can insert the USB cable into the iPad port only if you have a big hummer. There are some adaptors, to be fair, but using iTunes is the most (in)convenient way. Do you want to try to organize your files on iPad? Go read an e-book or have a coffee and forget about it!

8. If you want to take some pictures using your iPad, then you have to buy a photo camera and a role of tape to stick it to the Apple gadget. Steve Jobs, which I respect a lot, to better understand me, will come with a photo camera on the iPod 3.0. Or not.

9. If you are used to leave a complex site to fully charge and, in the same time, to use the Twitter window, then buy two iPads for yourself. This is because for Apple, the multitasking concept on iPhone or iPad is still an unfulfilled dream. Even more, the applications give you no error messages (like Microsoft does)… just disappear. And that of course when you are in the biggest hurry.

10. If you are a novelist and want to use iPad to write your newest book, you have to know that the iPad keyboard is a revolutionary one, as the product itself. I’m speaking about the screen keyboard, not about the external one (which transforms the gadget into a regular laptop). It’s that revolutionary I really can’t use it! Maybe I need few days more to be used with it. Or maybe not.