iPad OS Reveals Support for Video Calling, File Downloads

January 30th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Latest News, Software
iPad OS Reveals Support for Video Calling, File Downloads

The iPad OS (iPhone OS 3.2) contains hooks to accept and decline video conference, flip a video feed (suggests front facing camera), and view video calls in fullscreen or partial screen, reports Engadget. Partially screen video calls would suggest some type of multitasking; however, none of these features will be present in the first version [...]

 

Jobs to Mossberg: iBooks Same Price as Amazon, iPad 140hrs to Music, Save iWork Pages as Word Doc

January 30th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Latest News
Jobs to Mossberg: iBooks Same Price as Amazon, iPad 140hrs to Music, Save iWork Pages as Word Doc

When asked why people would buy an iPad iBooks book for $14.99 rather than an Amazon Kindle book for $9.99, Jobs said the books would be the same price, and further said publishers withhold books from Amazon because they’re not happy about the price. (Could be referring to Apple’s standard 70/30 split which Amazon just [...]

 

Former Facebook for iPhone Developer Joe Hewitt Says iPad “Everything He’s Been Wishing For”

January 30th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Latest News, Software
Former Facebook for iPhone Developer Joe Hewitt Says iPad “Everything He’s Been Wishing For”

Joe Hewitt, who developed the awesome Facebook 3.0, but controversially (and some would say detrimentally) left the iPhone platform before Facebook 3.1 over the App Store review process, has come out extremely positively about the iPad:

iPad is exactly the product I’ve been wishing for ever since I wrapped my mind around the iPhone and its [...]

 

iPad Uses Micro-SIM for 3G

January 30th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Latest News
iPad Uses Micro-SIM for 3G

The 3G version of the iPad is unlocked, so if your carrier supports micro-SIM, it should “just work”. Wait… what? Steve Jobs dropped the micro-SIM comment so matter-of-factly during the iPad introduction that it took us a moment to process — Micro-SIM, aka 3FF or 3rd generation SIM card.

 

Slashgear’s Hands on Video Review of iPad

January 28th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Latest News, Software
Slashgear’s Hands on Video Review of iPad
 

iPad Also Debuts Apple A4 Custom-built System-on-a-Chip for iPad

January 28th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Latest News
iPad Also Debuts Apple A4 Custom-built System-on-a-Chip for iPad

While Apple’s current generation iPhone 3GS and iPod touch G3 use ARM Cortex A8 CPUs and PowerVR SGX GPUs chips from Samsung, as part of their iPad announcement today, Apple also announced their own chip — the Apple A4. Custom chipsets have been on Apple’s agenda since they bought PA Semi (Palo Alto Semiconductor) and [...]

 

Some nice bags debut for iPad

January 28th, 2010. Category: Accessories, Apple iPad
Some nice bags debut for iPad

TOM BIHN, a designer, manufacturer, and retailer of laptop bags and travel bags has introduced the Cache sleeve and Ristretto vertical messenger bag for the Apple iPad.

The Cache is available in Size iPad – designed specifically for the Apple iPad. The Cache is designed to protect the Apple iPad against scrapes and [...]

 

iPad – Pricing

January 27th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Latest News
iPad – Pricing

The iPad pricing is highly competitive competing with the most basic netbooks for market share. 2010 is going to be a very interesting year thank to the iPad. Computing is about to change. Forever.

 

iWork for Ipad

January 27th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Software
iWork for Ipad

The iWork productivity applications that people know and love on the Mac — Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — have been completely redesigned for iPad. So you can create incredible presentations, word processing documents, and spreadsheets by directly touching the words and images on the large, Multi-Touch screen. And each of these apps has been designed [...]

 

Hello iPad – The Full rundown

January 27th, 2010. Category: Apple iPad, Latest News
Hello iPad – The Full rundown

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The large Multi-Touch screen on iPad lets you see web pages as they were meant to be seen — one whole page at a time. With vibrant color and sharp text. So whether you’re looking at a page in portrait or landscape, you can see everything at a size that’s actually readable. And with iPad, [...]