IPad Mini... Is it the wrong charger in the box for the task involved?

It seems the 5 Watt charger in the box isn't really man enough for the job? Yes it chargers the iPad mini... but at a snails pace! And just manages to creep in a charge if the Cellular network is still active... It struggles away at about 10% increase in battery for every couple of hours it's stuck sucking juice out the wall socket! Found I can increase the rate of charging by putting in Aircraft Mode... but even so its clearly not the best charger to of supplied?
I've now purchased a 12 Watt wall charger from the Apple Store so the tech guys in store seem to think it'll improve the charging time... As it seem the mini will happily suck away the juice at 10 Watts? So fingers crossed it'll speed things up... I hope so!
If you check out the spec for the 5 Watt wall changer as supplied in the box it covers iPod's iPhones and the iPad Mini... just seems odd to supply a 5 Watt charger when you then try out USB power sources like a car charger that'll supply the 5 Watts but the iPad Mini just displays the 'connected not charging' message next to the battery icon...
And in any case both the 5 Watt & 12 Watt chargers retail for the same price in store... So why not supply the proper tool for the job in the box?
So I've got more testing to do to see if the new 12 Watt kicks life into the process?
Only top tip to speed up a cellular IPad Mini is to switch to Aircraft Mode or power off?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HA782ZM/A/just-wireless-car-charger-for-ipad-i phone-and-ipod
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD836LL/A/apple-12w-usb-power-adapter?fnode=74
There you go huntfor... If like you wanted you'd prefer to shop for it all on the apple store then go for these two chargers...
The key to the car charger is to check the specification details... It needs to be 2.1 amps 10 watts... It's ashame you can get the dual jolt griffin in the US online store... As as charger it give you two USB ports both able to supply charger to 2 iPads if you want it to... Some dual charger have one of each capacity ports ie 1x 2.1 amps 10 watt and 1x 1amp 5 watt...
And your best investment with be the 12 watt wall socket charger... Now that little beast will kick *** when it comes to charging you iPad Mini... As I truly don't understand why they ship it with a 5 watt charger... The one in the box barely keeps it stood still if its doing any kind of tasking whilst plugged in...
The only other thing I'd suggest if you want to be fully kitted out is an additional cable so that you can keep one indoors and the spare in the car with the charger?
http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/MD818ZM/A/lightning-to-usb-cable?fno de=3a
And the proper cover with the sleep magnets saves power so they're worth it too!
http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/product/MD828LL/A/ipad-mini-smart-cover-prod uct-red?fnode=3b
Hope the information helps? And enjoy the Mini! It's a pretty cool bit of kit! : )

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