Apple Loses 4G For iPad Due To Legal Action
Over in Australia, due to complaints and legal actions, Apple has removed 4G advertising for iPads. Apple website is now renaming 4G to “cellular”.
Apple’s iPad 3 has 4G onboard, but this is designed to work only with 4G networks in North America. It is incompatible with 4G networks in other parts of the world, including Asia.
Google Currents Challenges Flipboard App
Google Currents is a news aggregator much like the popular Flipboard app. Google has updated the app with about 400 new publishers and over 14,000 self-published editions to its lineup. And following Flipboard, it has included international content to the app.
Google Currents is universal and available in the App Store for free.
Apple Is Releasing iPad Mini Says Samsung Official
A Samsung official told Korea Times that Apple is planning to launch a mini iPad with a 7.85 inch screen by end of 2012. The Samsung official also added Apple is expected to buy about $11 billion in total components and some of it is for the smaller iPad. The new, mini iPad is rumored to be priced at either $249 or $299 to compete with the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire.
Apple Sold Out Of New iPad For Launch Day
Apple has sold out of initial supplies of the new iPad in every country where it will launch the tablet on Friday. Buyers new orders will not ship for up to three weeks. Looks like Apple could not keep up with demand for the new iPad 2.
Apple Revealed New iPad
Apple has revealed the new iPad, it is not called iPad 3 or iPad HD, just iPad.
Here’s are the new features for iPad
Retina Display
New iPad features a high-definition screen with 2048 x 1536 resolution.
A5X processor
This chip runs four times faster than NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 but some Apple fans had hoped for a quad-core A6 processor. This is a dual-core processor with a quad-core graphics processing unit.
iSight Camera
The third-generation iPad includes a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera. The front-facing camera remains an 0.3 megapixel camera capable of VGA quality images.
1080p video recording
Full HD video recording with video stabilization and noise reduction.
4G LTE
4G LTE will be available in the US from both AT&T and Verizon.
Voice Dictation
This is not Siri, but it will recognize English, French, German, and Japanese.
Pricing remains the same, at $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB for WiFi-only models. iPad Wi-Fi + 4G for either AT&T or Verizon will be available $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB, and $829 for 64GB.
The new iPad will be available on March 16 in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, UK and the US Virgin Islands.
Apple iPad 3 Will Be Called iPad HD
Apple’s next-generation iPad will be called the iPad HD, not the iPad 3.
According to new sources, Apple will unveil the next iPad on March 7 and it will ship with 4G LTE variants for both Verizon and AT&T’s networks. The faster LTE data networks is now available in the U.S. from carriers Verizon and AT&T.
The new Apple iPad HD will feature a full-HD “retina” (2048 x 1536) display, faster A6 processor, longer battery life, thinner and lighter and few other hardware improvements.
The 9.7-inch iPad 4 is expected to come with much upgraded hardware specifications and integrated applications so as to compete with Android, Wintel and other OS based tablet PCs to be released in the fourth quarter.
Apple iPad 3 Concept Goes Viral
Aatma Studio Animation created a concept video of an outrageously advanced iPad 3 design. Looks cool and it has approximately 1.7 million views on YouTube.
Apple iPad 3 Releasing On March 7 With 4G
According to new sources, Apple will unveil the next iPad on March 7 and it will ship with 4G LTE variants for both Verizon and AT&T’s networks. The faster LTE data networks is now available in the U.S. from carriers Verizon and AT&T.
The new Apple iPad 3 will feature a full-HD “retina” (2048 x 1536) display, faster A6 processor, longer battery life, thinner and lighter and few other hardware improvements.
The 9.7-inch iPad 4 is expected to come with much upgraded hardware specifications and integrated applications so as to compete with Android, Wintel and other OS based tablet PCs to be released in the fourth quarter.
Apple iPad 3 Out In March 2012
According to new sources, Apple is going to release iPad 3 in March 2012 and the announcement will be made in first week of March.
Apple iPad 3 will feature a full-HD “retina” (2048 x 1536) display, faster A6 processor, longer battery life, thinner and lighter and few other hardware improvements.
The 9.7-inch iPad 4 is expected to come with much upgraded hardware specifications and integrated applications so as to compete with Android, Wintel and other OS based tablet PCs to be released in the fourth quarter.
Apple Fights Back China Workers Abused Claim
The Apple iPad has just turned 2 on 27 February 2012 and the tablet sold more than 300,000 units in 24 hours when it first launched. Apple now sold 15.4 million of iPads during the last quarter of 2011. The media are now heating up the claim that the iPad comes with a human cost for factory workers in China.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple has hit back the claims saying:
We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern. Any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us. As you know better than anyone, accusations like these are contrary to our values. It’s not who we are. For the many hundreds of you who are based at our suppliers’ manufacturing sites around the world, or spend long stretches working there away from your families, I know you are as outraged by this as I am. Every year we inspect more factories, raising the bar for our partners and going deeper into the supply chain. We’ve made a great deal of progress and improved conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers. We know of no one in our industry doing as much as we are, in as many places, touching as many people. We are attacking problems aggressively with the help of the world’s foremost authorities on safety, the environment, and fair labour. We will continue to dig deeper, and we will undoubtedly find more issues. What we will not do and never have done is stand still or turn a blind eye to problems in our supply chain. On this you have my word.
This week the Tim Cook has informed employees that later this year they will be able to buy an iPad with a $250 discount, while Macs will be available for $500 discount.
