Apple’s newly-announced the most awaited and long rumored iPad that is believed to be a revolutionary gadget in the digital world, has started to reveal some of its secrets and it doesn’t look like a game changer as Apple CEO Steve Jobs claimed in the press conference.

The iPad was supposed to change the face of digital experience, but this product is little more than a giant iPhone. May be little more only in terms of size because that doesn’t even make calls and size prohibits it to be as handy as iPhone.

USB

The iPad doesn’t has a USB port. It means one cannot hook up printers, scanners and anything else.

A camera connection Kit will be provided which will let user either plug the camera in direct or plug in an SD card to pull off the photos.

Camera

One of biggest shortcoming for a 3G crazy generation is No video camera, no stills camera, and no webcam coming with iPad.

Flash

Who needs Flash, anyway? YouTube and Vimeo have both switched to H.264 for video streaming and the rest of the world of Flash is painful to use.The lack of Flash in the iPad will be knock out punch for  Flash.

GPS

The 3G iPads come with AGPS. Assisted GPS can be one of two things, both of which which offload some work to internet servers and use cell-tower triangulation. The difference is that some AGPS units have real GPS too, and some don’t. We’ll know which the iPad has as soon as we get our hands on one.

Screen Configuration

The iPad screen is a relatively square which is not ideal for watching movies i.e 4: 3. In the era of wide screen & 16:9 aspect ratio, return of 4: 3  pixel configuration is  a surprise as well as disappointment.

But If you really do spend most of your time watching movies on the iPad, maybe you should think about buying, you know, a big TV.

OLED

One of the biggest rumors said that there would be two iPads, one with an OLED screen and one without. It may be more colorful, but it uses more power than an LED backlit screen when all the diodes are lit up. It is dim as compared to LED, making it tough for user to read outdoor.

Multitasking

It appears that in iPad we can’t run applications in the background.  The lack of CPU-cycle-sucking background processes is playing a crucial role in providing ten-hour battery life.

Keyboard

Nobody really thought the iPad would have a physical keyboard. Apple actually has made a keyboard for it is the biggest surprise (apart from the $500 price).

In fact, this little $70 accessory will mean that, despite its simplified nature, the iPad is enough laptop for many people. Why bother with a $400 netbook when you can have this instead?

Verizon

iPhone users hate AT&T, but the only alternative is T-Mobile, whose coverage isn’t as good. Until Verizon switches to the world-standard GSM SIM card, don’t expect to see an Apple product on its network. You can forget all those Verizon iPhone rumors right now.