Ending months (years?) of rumors, Apple today officially unveiled their tablet computer named the Apple iPad. During a January 27 2010 Apple Event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs called the iPad “way better than a laptop, way better than a phone”. The iPad weights in only 1.5 pounds, which is currently lighter than any netbook, and comes in at 0.5 inches thin. The device also includes a 9.7-inch IPS display (looks 4:3?) .
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Apple Announces iPad Media Device
It looks like a “big iPhone,” and apparently it acts like one too: the iPad can run traditional iPhone apps completely unmodified, and can even zoom them up to full screen. Additionally, a new iPhone SDK is out today to allow developers to tweak their apps for the specifics of the iPad. Of course, Apple has rebuilt its apps from the ground up for the iPad, and developers can do the same with the SDK. Check out our hands-on with the iPad here . Gallery: New iPhone & iPad SDK iPad can run all iPhone apps unmodified, new iPhone SDK out today lets developers tweak apps for iPad use originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:43:00 EST
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iPad can run all iPhone apps unmodified, new iPhone SDK out today lets developers tweak apps for iPad use
The long-awaited Apple Tablet has just been officially announced, and it’s not called the iTablet of iSlate: it’s the Apple iPad – a simple and quite nice name. Steve Jobs himself is presenting the Apple iPad as being revolutionary and magical, saying that it’s better than both a phone and a laptop.
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iPhone OS-based Apple iPad (tablet) officially announced, prices start at $500 (video)
It’s been a long, rumor-filled road, but today Apple has finally revealed a tablet, called the iPad . Steve Jobs seemed genuinely thrilled to demo the iPad, which weighs just 1.5 pounds, is a half-inch thin, and has a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS display. More interesting, Apple has built their own custom 1GHz processor, called the Apple A4 chip, to power the iPad
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Apple [AAPL] has finally announced the Apple Tablet, and it is called the Apple iPad, and it designed to be a device between an iPhone and Laptop. The Apple iPad is designed to be used for email, web browsing, photos, video, music, games and eBooks, and as you can see from the photos it looks like a larger version of the iPhone. The Apple iPad features a built in accelerometer just like the iPhone so you can use it in portait and landscape mode, and it also features an on screen keyboard just like the iPhone that you can use to type emails and browse the web. The iPad’s OS is from the iPhone, and it features the iTunes store built in just like the iPhone, and you can watch YouTube videos in HD, and also TV shows and movies from iTunes. It also features a built in maps application, which is probably Google Maps, so that means it has built in GPS.
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The Apple iPad – Apple’s Tablet Gets Official
In 1991, Apple introduced the first laptop. 20 years later, Steve Jobs brings us the iPad to bridge the gap between the MacBook and iPhone. Just like the iPhone, the iPad lets you browse the Internet, use the touchscreen to flick through your photos, get directions via maps, and access the iTunes Store to buy apps, and watch movies and TV shows in landscape mode. Using the touchscreen keyboard, you can send emails, chat, and use the iPad like a regular computer. Hear the first details, and see more images when you read more
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The iPad Has Landed!
Resco Photo Manager 7 for Windows Mobile Main UI Screen Introduction Resco recently introduced Photo Manager version 7 for Windows Mobile phones. Version 7, a major upgrade to an already top-notch photo viewer program, is aimed at better serving the touch screen of user’s devices. Resco was kind enough to provide a complimentary copy for me to review, and I’ve been spending some time with the update on my HTC Touch Pro
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Review: Resco Photo Manager 7 for Windows Mobile
Yes, Google Voice for the iPhone is finally here, albeit as a Web app, allowing you to place calls from your Google Voice number, send free text messages and view transcribed voicemails. While most of the app’s core functions remain intact, there are certain limitations to the Web app. We’ve got a chart listing everything that works and doesn’t work (click on the image for a closer look), but here’s the gist: The Web app version of Google Voice can be accessed at m.google.com/voice .
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Google Voice on the iPhone: What You Can’t Do
Rogers ( NYSE: RCI )’ discount carrier, Fido, has just launched new CityFido PrePaid options in nine Canadian cities… Which ones? Included are Toronto, London, Ottawa/Gatineau, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria. Customers in those cities will get 1,000 in-zone anytime local minutes with unlimited incoming and outgoing SMS messages, call waiting, voicemail and call display… For $45. Not too shabby. Of course, if you’re out of your local area, long distance charges will apply, at $0.40 per minute.
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CityFido Prepaid Options Now Available in 9 Canadian Cities
First, a disclaimer: we’ve heard the “Zeppelin” name before , both from Motorola and from Palm before that — we have no idea why it keeps coming up, particularly given the obvious references to epic disasters. That said, mobil.cz is reporting that this rather shapely device is an all-new Motorola smartphone bearing Android and the Zeppelin name that’s scheduled for unveiling at MWC in Barcelona next month. It’s said to have touch-sensitive buttons below the display, a 5 megapixel cam, 3.2-inch HVGA display, GPS, and Blur , presumably (well, hopefully) based on Android 2.0 or 2.1. In other words, it won’t be the highest-end phone on the block, but it won’t be the lowest, either — and it could very well be the most stylish
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Motorola Zeppelin spotted hopping train to Barcelona?
Archos hasn’t seemed to secure much love for its latest, the Archos 9 tablet , so maybe it’s going back to what it does best for its next suite of products: a quintet of mostly straightforward players along with a titillating new flavor of the Archos 7. First is the simple and cheap Archos Key, a €20 device with 4GB of storage and microSD expansion. Then there’s the Archos Vision Slim, a slenderized and button-free version of the original Vision , again packing just 4GB of storage but going for €40 this time.
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Six supposed new Archos models rendered for your speculative enjoyment
Apple have got us all thinking that the Tablet is going to be the biggest product launch since some hairy guy in a ferret skin whipped out the first wheel back in BC something-or-other.
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Opinion: Apple tablet – most hyped product since the wheel
Mobiado , the Canadian manufacturer of luxurious (and often weird ) mobile phones, has just announced its first phone of 2010: the Mobiado Classic 712ZAF. Building on the heritage of the Mobiado Luminoso series, the Classic 712ZAF is a candybar “crafted with a strong and vivid visual identity” – well, at least that’s what Mobiado says.
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We’ve heard of a few inventive ideas for detecting tsunamis, and it looks like a group of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (or NOAA ) have now come up with another: put all those undersea internet cables to a second use. While they haven’t moved beyond computer models just yet, the group has apparently found that voltmeters attached to the end of an undersea cable are able to detect the small electric field stirred up by tsunamis, which measure around 500 millivolts. As New Scientist reports, however, the idea does have some considerable limitations, including that it wouldn’t be able to pinpoint the exact location or direction of a tsunami, and that any such system would first need to filter out noise caused by other natural events and even the cable itself. Other researchers also caution that it’s just as important to develop a system to quickly pass on a warning to potentially affected areas once a tsunami has been detected. Researchers propose using undersea internet cables to detect tsunamis originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:02:00 EST.
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Researchers propose using undersea internet cables to detect tsunamis
We’ve been hearing rumors of a Tegra-powered Eee Pad tablet for quite a while now, and it looks like ASUS exec Eric Chen has now finally confirmed the obvious, responding to a question about ASUS’ tablet plans by saying, “yes, sure. We have the Eee Pad.” Unfortunately, he didn’t offer too much else in the way of details, saying only that it will have an ARM CPU and a 3G connection, and that Asus is paying particular attention to the user interface (even citing the iPhone as an example)
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Okay, we obviously can’t confirm this, but we just got two very interesting images of what certainly looks like a prototype Apple tablet , or what could be the tablet bolted down to a table . It’s big — really big — and it’s running what clearly looks like an iPhone app , although we’ve never seen an iPhone app with that interface or at that resolution before. We also see a WiFi icon and a cell service indicator, although tragically there’s no carrier listed.
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Is this the Apple tablet? (update: new images)
Colorware’s out to conquer the whole gadget world, it seems, as it has now added Google’s first own-brand phone to its roster. Joining such hero devices as the Nook , iPhone 3GS , every modern console and even the occasional ThinkPad , the Nexus One will take three weeks to undergo its makeover, at a cost of $175 if you’re supplying your own or $800 for a brand new one. Whether the results end up priceless or worthless will be entirely up to you, however, so feel free to practice on their design site a bit before pulling the trigger.
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Nexus One succumbs to Colorware’s charms
Some leaked specs already: Jason Calcanis silicon valley tech reporter and entrepreneur says he has been testing the Tablet for a week and released a series of tweets giving details about Apple’s Tablet, due to launch in four hours. 7…
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Apple Tablet: leaked specs – apparently it’s a gaming machine on an iPhone OS
A night of trance insanity just isn’t the same without some screen somewhere projecting bizarre and nonsensical but thoroughly trippy visuals — but what if you host your own basement raves and all you have is basic cable with C-SPAN? What you need is the faderTouch, a road case-based “visual performance” device created by VJ Fader that allows you to play virtual instruments by dragging fingers across the screen, instruments like one seemingly based on Pong and another that spawns and destroys pixels and notes using Conway’s Game of Life (the cellular one, not the one with the spinny wheel and the peg families). It’s a fun toy, but it seems somewhat… overengineered to us
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FaderTouch creates custom trippy visuals for your own private club, opium den (video)
Dhiram over at Newlaunches spotted this Intel video showing the company’s vision of a modern-day casino, one that can be managed remotely, has electronic card tables, Core2Duo-powered slot machines and even handheld gambling devices. It’s all fancy tech, but I don’t think the current gambling generation will be so impressed or welcoming of the improvements on their end. I mean, if you’ve been playing poker using good ol’ cards for decades, it won’t be that easy to switch to touchscreens won’t it? Click to View Embedded Video Clip Also, isn’t a Core2Duo slot machine just overkill? Will players be able to send instant messages or emails while playing?
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intel inside casinos: smarter ways of taking your money
While people all across the world are going weak-kneed and starry-eyed at very thought of the Apple tablet launch later today, some cynics remain. Cynics who say “meh” at the prospect of Apple’s wundergadget, people who suggest that this web-ennabled…
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The Tablet Cynics: four reasons why they’re like "meh"