It appears that Samsung is the sole provide of Retina displays for the new iPad. The report comes from Bloomberg that said:
Samsung Electronics Co. will supply the touch screen for Apple Inc.’s new iPad after LG Display Co. and Sharp Corp didn’t meet the U.S. company’s quality requirements, according to an analyst with iSuppli. Samsung, the world’s top flat-panel maker, currently is the sole vendor of the display for the 9.7-inch device, said Vinita Jakhanwal, a senior manager at iSuppli, a unit of Englewood, Colorado-based IHS Inc.
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Although the iPad has yet to be release, a website in Vietnam has managed to get hold of a fully boxed retail version and has opened it up to see what is included in the box. To be honest, there's absolutely no surprises at all about what you get with the new iPad as it all looks practically the same as the iPad 2, but either way, I'm sure there will be some who get excited about the video below.
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Apple has announced that iWork.com will be closing on July 31 2012. When that date passes it will be no longer possible to log in and use the service. Any documents still in there will be gone.
Apple is now encouraging users to switch to iCloud. Full text below.
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The new iPad is expected to be delivered this Friday in several countries to those who pre-ordered in time. We are starting to hear some info that indicates some of the UK orders might be shipping a little later though with some readers of Macrumors getting new dates of March 20 instead of March 16 in their original email.
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In the UK, Apple has sold out of the first batch of pre-orders of the new iPad. The shipping estimate is now set at 2 - 3 weeks on all models in the UK.
For those in the US, there's still some stock available for delivery on launch day with most options showing March 16 delivery although a few of the AT&T models are showing March 19 delivery dates which indicates that plenty of people are pre-ordering.
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Microsoft is looking at OnLive Desktop at the moment to ensure that the licensing requirements are being met:
We are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved.
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Apple has released iPhoto for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The new app allows you to browse, share and edit photos with the key being the ability to use multitouch to manage the pictures.
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Apple has uploaded a video of the iPad/Apple TV announcement yesterday. The keynote is about 90 minutes in length and is available to watch on the Apple website.
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Along with the iOS 5.1 update, Apple has now increased the download limit from 20MB to 50MB. The 20MB limit applied to any media or app downloads/updates that were done on the iPhone or the iPad on 3G/4G networks. The reason for the update is because the new iPad now has a Retina display which means graphics add quite a bit of bulk to the overall size of an app. Those apps that were close to the 20MB download restriction are now pushed to about 35MB which means that those who updated on the move would now need to update those apps over WiFi.
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After a few months of iOS 5.1 being in beta 3, Apple has now publicly released iOS 5.1. The latest version of iOS is available for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone and brings several new features although Siri users might be left a little disappointed.
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After many months of speculation, Apple has finally unveiled The new iPad. The device is now just called iPad rather than iPad 3, iPad HD or iPad 2S as some had speculated. The reason for this could be to fall in line with how people view the iPod nano, iPod touch, Apple TV etc... each has a generation, but essentially they are not referred to as the Apple TV 3 as an example. We suspect that the next generation iPhone will simply be called iPhone or The new iPhone as it will be listed on the Apple website later on this year.
Back to the new iPad. The key features of this model are the Retina display, 5 megapixel camera with new optics, A5X processor and 4G connectivity to name a few things.
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We'll find out for sure later on today, but rumours are hinting that the iPad 3 will be going on sale on March 16 (next Friday). The length between announcing the iPad 3 (which is later today) and when it will go on sale about match the iPad 2 launch last year. What isn't clear at the moment is what countries it will launch in. Typically the iPad launches in the US and is followed a few weeks later with several other countries. Apple might be working on a more unified launch this year.
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