Starting yesterday, many Americans began to complain that the tablets that were supposed to arrive at their homes were turned out of the way and sent back to Apple partner factories in China. It seems that there are some problems with the iPad 2 CDMA tablets, but we are talking about a very serious problem because the company has sent lists of certain series of iPad 2 CDMA tablets to US stores that must be sent back to China. It seems that the whole problem is due to the fact that certain information about Verizon subscribers' accounts are not displayed on the tablet, as they cannot edit data in their own subscription-related accounts.
Apple has given all the stores a list of serial numbers to scan, if it's a match we were told to set aside and ship back to Apple, these are only for Verizon ipads. This was to be done on Monday and continue to scan all shipments thru June 11. I had over one hundred to send back. Verizon iPad 2s aren't being sent back due to engraving. If someone activates a cellular connection on the device, then wants to view or edit account information, they can't. They receive a message that it is activated, and that's it. I saw someone open at least 6 looking for one that didn't do it. It's device specific, not software.
In recent years, Apple has not taken such a measure with any iDevice, not even with the iPhone 4, which from the very beginning generated problems with signal loss if a certain area of the GSM antenna was covered. The good part is that the GSM versions of the iPad 2 have no problem and can be used without any worries.
