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.
Apple Releases iOS 5.5.1 Fixes Bugs For iPad, iPhone
Apple updated iOS software today to new version, iOS 5.1.1. It is meant to fix a few minor bugs within the OS, affecting all iPads, iPhones 3GS, 4 and 4S, and third and fourth generations of the iPod Touch.
From Apple:
- Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut
- Addresses bugs that could prevent the new iPad from switching between 2G and 3G networks
- Fixes bugs that affected AirPlay video playback in some circumstances
- Improved reliability for syncing Safari bookmarks and Reading List
- Fixes an issue where ‘Unable to purchase’ alert could be displayed after successful purchase
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 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.
Kindle Fire Is Number 2 Behind Apple iPad
Amazon Kindle Fire was out in November 15 and it is selling like hot cakes making it the number 2 tablet of choice behind Apple iPad. Amazon’s success is the pricing Kindle fire at $199 also their huge content library and built-in base of customers.
We think that Apple will not reduce price of upcoming iPad 3 but produce cheaper version of iPad 2S to complete with Kindle Fire.
GMail App For iPhone And iPad Pulled Due To Notification Bug
Google released a new Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users on Wednesday, but Google pulled it within a few hours after consumer backlash due to a bug in with notifications.
The GMail app features:
- Get alerted to new messages with push notifications and sounds
- Find an email in seconds with search across your entire inbox
- Autocomplete email addresses from your Gmail contacts or select from your device’s address book
- Upload photos with a click using the new attachment button in compose view
- On iPad, navigate your inbox and read your mail simultaneously with split view
- Focus on your important messages first with Priority Inbox
- Quickly scan countless emails on the same subject with threaded conversations
- Organize your mail by archiving, labelling, starring, deleting and reporting spam
- Pull down your inbox to rapidly refresh if you’re eager for new mail
- Swipe right to view your labels without ever leaving your inbox
- Swiftly scroll through dozens of emails just by sliding your finger
Apple Released iOS 5 for iPad And iPhone
Apple has finally released iOS 5 for iPhone and iPad. There were issues initially due to the load on Apple server. Some of the new features are Reminders, Notification Centre, iMessage, Newstand, Twitter, Wi Fi Sync and more. Check out the Apple website.
Check out the video below for the all the new features.
Facebook App For iPad On Oct 4?
Will Facebook release its iPad app on Oct 4? The same time where Apple will announce the new iPhone 5. This we will have to wait and see.
