iPad Teardown Reveals Gyroscope Part of Original Design In an interesting piece in EE Times they relate that when UBM Insights completed their teardown of the iPad they found an unpopulated area on the PCB next to the accelerometer which would fit a similar design of gyroscope to that found … Read the Full Story →
The iPad is an unmitigated success. It has grabbed the hearts of consumers and TV personalities alike. Early in its life the likes of Colbert clutched a pre-production model at the Grammy Awards. Consumers in the US and 20 other countries, cannot get enough units of the device. And recently … Read the Full Story →
Supermarket Mania HD Rating: I have never been a fan of time management games such as Farmville, Sally’s Salon, and other games where the purpose is to perform certain tasks within a set amount of time. I find most of them to be repetitive and not exciting enough to satisfy my … Read the Full Story →
About six and a half months ago (January 27th, 2010 to be specific), most technology bloggers and analysts chose the casket for the Kindle. The iPad was going to kill the Kindle device and distribution model. iBooks was going to take over as the de-facto eBook marketplace just like iTunes … Read the Full Story →
We’ve reported various rumors which suggest that the next gen iPod touch will feature a camera. Apple’s annual music event is expected to be scheduled in the first week of September and we can expect new iPod touch models with high resolution display, Apple’s custom A4 chip and video & image capturing capability. BGR recently reported that … Read the Full Story →
Today Apple published a press release announcing that iPad will be available in nine more countries (Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore) this Friday. The iPad has been a huge success for Apple and it has been difficult for them to meet the demand. … Read the Full Story →
Turning my iPad into a second monitor was one of the first things I did with it. Luckily there are a number of apps of varying quality on the App Store that allow you to do so. I actually wrote my own in the end, because they weren’t quite up … Read the Full Story →
CF Defense HD Rating: First person shooters have had mixed reviews on iDevices with the use of virtual d-pads and the touch screen not always conducive to good control systems, CF Defense HD is the latest to attempt to succeed in the App Store. The first thing that you’ll notice when … Read the Full Story →
I was at one of our local Malls here in Thailand today. Checking the price of Apple gear in stores here is always a good barometer of global supply chains. A 16GB iPhone 4 was marked up at 60,000 Baht, which is over $2000. Whereas a 3G iPad was on … Read the Full Story →
Apple confirmed today that it has sold 3 Million iPads in the 80 days since its launch. That means in the last three weeks Apple have sold another 1 Million iPads. As of today there are 11,000 Apps for the iPad. And some 225,000 iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad … Read the Full Story →
Digitimes is using display panel shipping volumes to extrapolate how many iPads Apple is currently shipping. Samsung should be able to ship between 300,000 and 500,000 panels in July. LG on the other hand shipped close to 1 Million iPad panels in May, up from 700,000 in April. Using these … Read the Full Story →
AT&T has finally reached out to their iPad 3G customers affected by the security breach discovered on June 7th. After days of silence formulating a response (and probably being brow beaten by Steve Jobs), the American telecom giant sent an email to explain their side of the story. In a … Read the Full Story →
The iPad has already exceeded expectations in many ways. From one of the fastest selling personal computing devices in the history of technology to the rate of adoption among all facets of society, the iPad has rewritten the book on how a new device enters the market. Now comes news … Read the Full Story →
The FBI has launched an investigation into the AT&T security breach first reported in Valleywag earlier this week. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States has begun to look into the circumstances surrounding the breach that left hundreds of … Read the Full Story →
Hackers exploiting a security loophole on AT&T servers have obtained the e-mail addresses of approximately 114,000 iPad 3G owners and the SIM addresses of their devices. As reported in Valleywag, the hackers employed scripts that emulated a specially formed URL in an iPad-specific AT&T web application. The vulnerability then exposed … Read the Full Story →
