It's definitely a disappointment, most of all for those who were eagerly awaiting an upgrade. It is indeed true that after 16 months Apple should have come out with something much better. Apple dropped the ball on the iPhone but maybe you're right that it's limited by the ability to adapt the iPhone to newer tech. 4G takes up too much power (and space?) to fit in current designs.

The dual core A5 processor is a nice improvement but maybe it's just me, my iPad 2 is not all that much better speed wise compared to my iPad 1. Perhaps it's my apps that don't demand too much CPU power but really, I didn't go "oh wow" when I got my iPad 2.

I think the bigger, and much cooler, announcement is iCloud. That is what I want to get going!

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