The New iPad - Poor Battery - not impressed :(

If you don't like it, return it and get something you like better.

As for myself, no complaints, at least nothing major, and I'm delighted with it.

1. You're complaining that using features of the device uses the battery? Typical battery life is 10 hours, as has been shown in many real-world usage reviews.

2. It's a high capacity battery. The higher the capacity, the longer it takes to charge. If it wasn't a high-capacity battery you'd be moaning that the battery didn't last as long as it does - and you're already moaning about that.

3. Yes, it can - if your laptop provides enough power to the USB ports. It takes 10v from the wall charger. Again, it's a high capacity battery. Charging from a USB port takes even longer than from the wall charger. I thought you wanted it to charge more quickly?? If you want to charge it from a laptop, without it taking many days, get a decent laptop that provides enough power to the USB ports.

4. Yes. Electronic devices get warm whilst in use. Does your laptop or TV stay cold to the touch when in use?

5. Flash is dead. Adobe have discontinued it for mobile devices.

http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html

Charging Tips

The quickest way to charge your iPad is with the included 10W USB Power Adapter. iPad will also charge, although more slowly, when attached to a computer with a high-power USB port (many recent Mac computers) or with an iPhone Power Adapter. When attached to a computer via a standard USB port (most PCs or older Mac computers) iPad will charge, but only when it's in sleep mode. Make sure your computer is on while charging iPad via USB. If iPad is connected to a computer that’s turned off or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPad battery will continue to drain.

1) battery loss according to you= 8.33 hours of chess.

2) big batteries take hours to charge, even laptops take a while to charge.

3) buy a laptop with hi-power USB ports, it will charge.

4) this has been proven to be FUD spread by anti-Apple agents. http://www.macworld.com/article/1166068/not_so_hot_new_ipad_heat_levels_comparab le_to_android_tablets.html

5) non issue. Adobe has killed mobile flash for all devices.

To be honest there are some good points that your are talking about. The battery issue is one that they have been mentioning almost everyday on my local San Fran news. If you lived in this area, everybody is talking about it.

I have owned all three ipad generation's, and I could say this one has the most battery issues. I am sure there is likely to be an update around the corner. My ipad 2nd gen gets way better battery life than my, new ipad 3rd gen. My biggest complaint with this new ipad I noticed is that when you turn the brightness up, your battery life is shortened to just a couple of hours. However, if I am playing a game in the dark and can turn down the brightness to it's lowest setting, it almost goes to a complete halt. I think brightness is an issue that a lot of people don't bring up.

You also make a good point about charging. It seems like I am always charging this new IPAD, I use my Iphone adaptor charger in my car, which I never did with my other Ipads, and when I get home from work I usually plug it in and use my other ipad's. If you use this ipad a lot, it seems like you need to buy two of them.

Seriously?

Cranking up the brightness on a display causes it to use more power?

The screen on the iPad is the biggest drain on the battery?

Why doesn't anyone else know about this?

Thanks so much for bringing up what should be obvious to anyone with two brain cells to rub together.

You are like a superhero-we should call you Captain Obvious!

Looks like somebody needs a hug, remember the Terms of Use.

Sincerely,

Captain Obvious

The thing about flash which I hadn't realized at first is some of the core features just can't work on a touchscreen (mouse-overs, for example.) For whatever reason the popular press seems to have overlooked the engineering/design incompatibilities in favour of a more juicy and inaccurate interpretation.

Dave Robertson2 wrote:

The thing about flash which I hadn't realized at first is some of the core features just can't work on a touchscreen (mouse-overs, for example.)

Adobe Flash 10.1 which was the first mobile release fixed this. The Virtual Machine automatically converts mouseEvents to touchEvents, and so on.

When Steve Jobs made his claim about Flash and mouse overs there was no mobile Flash Player, he was only assuming that Adobe would port over the Desktop version without such changes, and assumed this would be an issue, which we now see was incorrect.

However the irony of it, is that because Adobe is a single entity they were able to do these auto-convertions within the player easily, allowing Flash content to not have to be re-written for touch screens.... and now here is the irony, html, which Steve Jobs claimed should be used due to these mouse issues, still need to be re-built for touch screens, as the w3c that controls the html standard are not able to put in place the same technique Adobe did for Flash.

So on this point, Steve Jobs was actually backwards about his claims that Flash would not work on touch screens and would need ot be re-built in html, because the fact is Flash auto-converts, where html needs to be re-written.

People who have never used mobile flash on a mobile device need to stop spreading these lies. Steve Jobs made his claims about mobile Flash almost 6 months before mobile flash even existed.

PB-

Going by what you said I think you should return the new IPAD and get an IPAD2. Everything but the flash issue will be taken care of and resolved but the display will of course be less vibrant but after a while you won't even notice it and I believe you will be much happier.

Hope this helps buddy.

PB@Apple wrote:

1)You are very bad at your math. if 10 mins of chess consume 2.5%, then to 100% battery will work for 400 mins i.e.6.6 hours.

It just might be that you bought the wrong device. All of your complaints are borderline ridiculous.

1. Your ipad, or any other device, will consume more battery if you're using an internet connection. There is no way around this.

2. It's a high capacity battery. That charges faster at first then slows down the process of filling up its charge to extend your battery's useful life and prevent it from exploding.

3. You're right, it is disgusting that some 'laptops' are designed so poorly that the power output is only good enough to light up an LED for 9 seconds. See this is why the MacBook Air is more expensive, but far superior to any of those 'bargain' netbooks they sell for peanuts. In short, you need a real laptop.

4. It's a bunch of things. One of those is the high capacity battery. There is also a lot of pixels in your iPad. And electrical components which will evidently heat up. If it's too hot, dim down the lights, and put it down a little bit. Or better yet, buy a protective case for it. It will isolate the heat and when you accidentally drop it you won't be coming here to complain that 'the ipad has a bad design because i dropped it and it has a dent'.

5. Flash. Yes, such a marvelous thing that even Adobe gave up on. Flash is on its way out. the iPad and everything else that doesn't support it are moving things forward, rather than dangle the flash worm for customers to bite the bait then complain that their tablet device is junk.

The problem here is not that 'we are all apple fans getting angry at you for your criticism' it's that you purchased something without taking the time to find out if it was right for you, based on your needs and capacity to work with it using the tools at your disposal. If you feel another tablet would be better for you, by all means, go ahead, send the iPad back and use the money to buy a Galaxy, or maybe a Playbook