So, after last nights partying the hangover starts to kick in. The thing you hooked up with last night was amazing, but now in the day you start to see it for what it really is, and all the faults and short comings are there for all to see. Unfortunately there is no i-tablet for this hangover.

So, lets just get it all out there and list the things that do kinda suck about the iPad.

Multitasking – Surely this was a no brainer, but no, once again (like with the iPhone) its one thing at a time. Now whats the point in that? So I can’t run Simplify Media and do a bit of reading at the same time? Even the lousiest Netbook, which the iPad is supposed to replace, can do this simplest of things. Its also going to be no use as a presentation tool, not if you need to be jumping in and out of things.

Camera – Why the hell not? Ok, the iPhone has one, even though its pretty pathetic compared to other phones, so you would have thought they would have got a decent one set up for the iPad, but nope, didn’t even bother to put one in. Ok, maybe not on the back, but surely a forward facing camera for those who want to show their face online. Aren’t these the guys who love to go on about their iChat?

Flash – Ok seriously, how long will it be before these guys can get this sorted. Why in the world would someone want to buy something that they will use to browse the Internet that doesn’t even support flash! Fair enough, its maybe not such a big deal on the iPhone or iPod Touch, but for this device which is supposed to replace Netbooks and be more like a laptop, it is a huge loss. Its not like everything is all about streaming media or anything!

Keyboard – Oh dear oh dear, it just gets worse. This is neither a step back or forward, its just a rehash of the same ugly keyboard interfaces that have appeared on every tablet device ever launched. Unless you have rubber wrists that can bend back upon themselves, or you are sitting with the device proped up, it will be awkward to use, and then, what is the point in that, you would just use a Netbook that has a keyboard.

The Name iPad – Sorry to be a little crude, but I am not the only one that thinks this is going to lead to many a gag about sanitary items for women.

HMDI – So, you can download HD videos from iTunes, too bad you can’t then play them on your HD TV. That’s ok though maybe you just want to watch them on your iPad anyways, well take a look at the next point.

4:3 – That’s right, no widescreen. According to sources, widescreen does not look good on this thing. Everything is widescreen these days. Sure its not a deal breaker, but with the lack of HMDI output, it will leave you feeling a little let down.

Externals – So, it looks sleek and smooth and all the lines are perfect, to bad you can hook anything else up to it. Got a camera? Want to put some photos on your iPad? What USB connects??? Nope, you either get the big ugly adapters (at a cost of course) or you put them on your laptop then shift them from your laptop to your iPad. Ok, I’m bored already.

Memory – Its limited. Netbooks these days are coming out with 250gb, this thing starts with 16gb, goes to 64gb (again at a cost). Again, not a deal breaker, but considering your basic iPod will have 80gb it makes it disappointing.

Applications – Ok, the app store is what makes the iPhone amazing, the fact that you have a phone that fits in your pocket and does pretty much everything because there is an app for that is cool. When you are launching a product and hoping to fill a gap that you claim isn’t filled by current things like Netbooks, then you want it to be better, so why restrict it to only the apps that you allow. “Oh, but you can go and download all these apps from the one place” is what they will say. Yeah, we already had something like that, it was called the Internet!

Built in 3g – So what! That’s not a new and exclusive, that’s just the same as what most Netbooks and Laptops will do these days.

Ok, I am going to have to stop there for now because the more I write the more disappointed I become. Those that are slaves to the Apple Corp. will be no doubt wetting themselves over this, and raiding their piggy banks to by the overpriced devices. It just doesn’t really seem to do anything that devices out there don’t already do, and it doesn’t do them better, or make them better, or really fill that void that you think you have but you really don’t.

I just get stuck with Steve Jobs making a big thing about how Netbooks had failed to fill the gap between smartphones and Notebooks, but yet his device falls sort on almost everything. Ok, its got touchscreen, but that’s not going to make up for all the other shortcomings.

So, when the hangover kicks in, you will realise that the sleek and sexy thing last night wasn’t really all it was made up to be.