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Apple has posted two new iPad ads on their website titled: "iPad is Musical" and "iPad is Delicious". They follow up from the What is iPad...?" commercial. Click on the links to view iPad is Musical and iPad is Delicious Read more [...]
Today Apple has updated their website to highlight some of the features that will be coming to the iPad with the iOS 4.2 update.
The page highlights the update's main features of: Multitasking, AirPlay, Folders and Wireless Printing. This page can be viewed here
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Apple has released a software update for the iPad, iOS 3.2.1. The update brings several improvements and bug fixes, the most notable being “Improved WiFi connectivity”. The full list of upgrades are detailed here:
Improved Wi-Fi connectivity
Fixed an issue that could prevent copy and paste of single-page PDF attachments in Mail
Addressed an issue that could cause video playback to freeze
Improved reliability of video-out when using iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter
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Apple has released an update to it's MobileMe iDisk app to make it fully compatible with the iPad as well as the iphone and iPod Touch.
The app allows users to access documents, pictures and music that were deposited on to their iDisk on their Mac. Users can open documents using specific apps dependent on the format. This functionality is considered a crucial aspect for many ipad users, especially those who use the iWork apps. While other parties have created apps with this functionality, such Read more [...]
ATT have sparked controversy this week with the news they will be discontinuing their unlimited mobile broadband plan for the iPad 3G from June 7th.
Up until this point AT&T offered customers a choice of two data plans: $14.99 for 250 MB of data per month or $29.99 per month for Unlimited data. But just over 1 month since the launch of the iPad 3G on April 30th, this has been revised significantly. Starting today the unlimited data plan has been removed and replaced with 2 GB for $25 per Read more [...]
Steve Jobs at today's iPhone OS 4.0 event, announced that as of today -- 450,000 units of iPads were sold, 3.5 million iPad apps and 600,000 iBooks downloaded and more than 3,500 iPad apps is available in the app store. He also mentions that the total iPhones sold to date worldwide is at a whooping 50 million units, where as the iPod Touch sold 35 million.
Related Post: 300,000 iPads sold on Launch Day
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The iSuppli component breakdown for the iPad is here. As with any of these costs estimates, things that are not factored in the cost includes: Research and development, putting the parts together, marketing the product, packaging, etc. So the actual cost for each iPad Apple makes could be more or less than the 'estimated cost' below.
Here's the estimated cost in just parts for each WiFi models of the iPad:
$259.60 -- 16GB model
$289.10 -- 32GB model
$348.10 -- 64GB model
Highlights in the Read more [...]
When Apple announced the iPad in January, the 'iPad' trademark was already snagged up by Fujitsu, the company has a device used in retail establishments and has been around since 2002 that's also called the iPad.
Days after the announcement, Fujitsu was reportedly preparing to begin litigation or settlement terms with Apple for the iPad TM. It looks like Apple has negotiated with Fujitsu with some sort of deal and the company now officially owns "iPad". Read more [...]
For those who pre-ordered the iPad keyboard dock, 10W USB power adapter and/or the official iPad case, there will be a delay in the ship date for these 3 particular iPad accessories.
The $69 keyboard dock and the $29 USB power adapter that was originally scheduled for a April launch has been pushed back to 'sometime' in May. And as for the the iPad Case, which was suppose to start shipping on April 3rd along with the WiFi iPads, has been delayed to mid-April.
As of now, the iPad Dock and dock Read more [...]
On Friday, Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPad, and according to an estimate done by the AAPL Sanity Team, nearly 120,000 iPads was sold on the first day alone.
You can see more details on how they came up with that number at Deagol's blog, but basically, looking at order numbers from a sampling of 99 orders over 19.5 hours, the team subtracted the number of typical daily online sales from the total estimated sales from Friday.
In addition, the team finds that the pre-orders were nearly Read more [...]
As Apple opens the flood gate on pre-orders for early iPad adaptors, new iPad tidbits emerges and questions answered.
New Button on the iPad: Screen Orientation Lock
Apple has exchanged what used to be the mute button on the iPad to a new button called "Screen Orientation Lock". So you can lock the iPad screen in either portrait or landscape mode.
Apple Submits iPad to the FCC
Like with most of Apple's FCC fillings, FCC revealed nothing on the iPad before the pre-orders started yesterday.
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New iPad Info compiled by 9-to-5Mac from the iPad Emulator:
YouTube HTML5 Beta Video Player works fine in Safari on the iPad. Note that videos with ads will not play in iPad Safari due to Flash, YouTube is working on it.
Users will have the option to turn on the Battery Percentage Indicator on the iPad, like the iPhone 3GS. A feature not available in non-jailbroken iPhone 2G, 3G and iPod Touch.
“File Sharing allows you to transfer application files to and from your iPad and computer.” Read more [...]
