Apple packs a much larger battery into the new iPad, which becomes available for general sale today, in order to juice the tablet for up to ten hours of use, even with 4G LTE connectivity. iFixit took apart the new iPad , which is vastly improved on the inside, but looks almost identical to the [...]
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New iPad battery life is not as long as Apple claims. On the other hand Asus Transformer Prime battery lasts at least 2 hours longer than the new iPad Though Apple has trashed reports that there is no battery issue with its new iPad, but that doesn’t seem to be true. Though the heating of [...]
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All of the tablets were compared by running the 720p version of “Toy Story 3” at 150 candela per square meter, which equates to a little less than half brightness on the iPads. The Transformer Prime with Asus laptop keyboard dock lasted 15.3 hours to take the top spot. The iPad 2 running iOS [...]
It isn’t that the new iPad lacks impressive features –most notably, a vastly better display and an ultra-fast Internet-connection option. It’s just that it seems designed to maintain Apple’s huge lead in the tablet wars, rather than to extend it. The closest parallel might be the iPhone 4S, a similarly incremental updating of its predecessor. [...]
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As the USB port becomes increasingly ubiquitous, it is also becoming accepted as a universal charging port. Unfortunately, this concept of universal is easier to say than it is to do. This article is an introduction into the common challenges a designer runs into in creating this highly desirable, omnipresent USB battery charging port. [...]
Screen The most exciting update to the iPad is the screen. Apple has slapped in a so-called retina display, giving the screen a 2,048×1,536-pixel resolution — that’s four times the resolution of the iPad 2. At 264 pixels per inch (ppi) it’s pin-sharp and superbly colourful, too. At 10.1 inches, the Galaxy Tab 2′s screen [...]
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Apple on Wednesday released iOS 5.1, an update to its mobile operating system for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. The update, which has been in testing for some time, includes a number of bug fixes and improvements, including fixes that address battery life issues and support for the Japanese language with Siri. During a special [...]
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Barnes & Noble has released a $199 Nook Tablet with 8 GB of storage to better compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The new model has the same dual-core, 1 GHz processor as the 16 GB Nook Tablet, which still sells for $249. However, the 8 GB model has half the RAM, at 512 MB. Both [...]
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I love Apple. I’ve got an iMac, a MacBook Pro, an iPhone, and an iPod Touch, and I love all of them. And while my Apple arsenal might pale when compared to that of the most ardent Apple fanatic, there’s no doubt about my faith in [...]
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On Thursday, Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, told Computerworld that he expects Apple to release an iPad in a 7-inch screen size later this year, after a speculated March introduction of an iPad 3 with a 9.7-inch touchscreen. The first generation iPad and the iPad 2 have both had 9.7-inch displays, with [...]
