Apple [AAPL] started allowing people to pre-order the Apple iPad in the US where we will see the Wi-Fi model shipping April 3 and the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G models shipping late April. Both models of all capacities can be pre-ordered now.
A team at Investor Village AAPL Sanity board did some analysis of numbers and estimate that 124,596 items were ordered on the Apple site on Friday March 12 with 16,500 of those being other items that are normally ordered. They also estimated that per person an average of 1.11 iPads were ordered bringing the total up to 119,987 iPads pre-ordered in the first day. [Read more…]
Google’s email service GMail is web based and for some people it runs slow. If you only have a few hundred or few thousand emails in your GMail box then you might not be aware of the issue, however if you have hundreds of thousands or even millions of emails in your GMail inbox then the service runs slow.
For those using TomTom on the Apple iPhone, the software has just received an update today taking it from version 1.2 to 1.3. New features included in the iPhone TomTom 1.3 package include HD Traffic updates, better integration with the phone and iPod functions of the device.
The bad news has finally been confirmed by Microsoft [MSFT] saying that the 
According to the YouTube video linked below, the iPhone 4G could be called the Apple 
If you thought a physical keyboard was the only way to tap out a text message on a phone then think again.
Back towards the end of February we came across a review of the 
As well as launching the HTC Desire in April, Vodafone are also going to ship the HTC Legend. The Legend is another Google Android OS based device. Like the Desire, the Legend also has a 5 megapixel camera although the screen is slightly smaller measuring 3.2 inches.
Vodafone have listed the HTC Desire on their online store and given it a tentative shipping date of April. Vodafone are the 3rd network in the UK who are going to be shipping the HTC Desire with the other two being T-Mobile and 
The Opera Mini 5 browser (in beta) has launched for Google Android based handsets. The Android OS version of the browser aims to run quicker than the regular Android OS browser built in. To achieve this the Opera Mini 5 browser uses Opera’s servers that are used to cache files ready to be downloaded. I guess you could say it acts as a proxy in between and each time a page is requested the server makes the image smaller and compresses the HTML making the data needed to be downloaded a lot less, thus a faster transfer.
