Latest Gadgets, Tablets and Smartphones
RIM has created a side-by-side comparison of the BlackBerry PlayBook and Apple iPad. The comparison runs tests on browser speed to see which of the two tablets performs best on loading up particular websites.
To make sure the test was fair (other than RIM doing the test of course), they cleared the cache of the browser to make sure each device was pulling down fresh data from the webservers. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] is holding and event today 
It appears that the “Exciting Announcement” made mention of yesterday by Apple [AAPL], is indeed the introduction to the Beatles landing in the iTunes music store.
When loading up the Apple website, you’ll see a full splash page all about the Beatles along with various videos showing the bands past. [Read more…]
We are still unclear exactly how Apple will launch AirPrint in iOS 4.2. At the moment, the last we heard was that shared printers are now not supported and the only way to print from the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch is to print to one of ten AirPrint compatible wireless HP printers.
If this continues to be the case then you might want to test out AirPrintHacktivator that manages to re-enable the service. To get it to work you’ll need a Mac along with the latest Max OS X 10.6.5 as well as iOS 4.2 GM of course. [Read more…]
The Pulse iPhone app was originally submitted to Apple [AAPL] about a year ago although at the time, it was rejected due to using a unique way of accessing the camera on the iPhone 4.
Now that Apple has made its guidelines public and in some cases, has relaxed a few rules, the company behind the Pulse app have now resubmitted and had the application approved for launch. [Read more…]
Over the weekend, Apple [AAPL] introduced Ping to the iPad. Ping can be found in the iPad iTunes application and is positioned on the bottom menu bar around the middle (as pictured above).
The service matches that of iTunes on the desktop and is capable of connecting up to Twitter to push out tweets. It also includes your own feed of who you follow and who follows you. It lets you view your profile also. [Read more…]
The HP Slate was first announced at CES right at the beginning of this year. Since then its been canceled, changed to webOS, Android and back to Windows. Now that it has finally launched (in Windows form), we now hear that extraordinary demand has put a six week waiting delay for those who order it today.
Although it takes six weeks to get to you and HP has described it has being in extraordinary demand, its difficult at this time to know exactly what that means in terms of sales. Apple [AAPL] announced along the way how many iPads had sold with that tablet device quickly reaching 1 million. However, HP could have made far less units and had problems for a real lack of units to sell. [Read more…]
About a year ago, Apple [AAPL] started up the in-app purchase features. What this does is allows developers to create apps for iOS based devices and then let you purchase add-ons whilst in the app. An example could be extra levels of a game or more transactions in a financial package to name a few ideas.
GigaOM decided to have a look at the top 100 grossing apps today to see what was there and after checking through the list, they found that 34 apps out of the 100 were listed as being free and managed to be added to the top 100 grossing apps due to the in-app purchases that they allowed. Just a quick glance on the screen shot above shows that the top 5 contains 2 free apps. [Read more…]
In the past few days some details/rumours about AirPrint support in iOS 4.2 being partially pulled went around the Internet. The original rumours hinted at AirPrint not supporting printers shared on a Mac or Windows computer which left many reporting that only five current printers from HP would actually be compatible with the service. One upset user of MacRumors emailed Steve Jobs to see what was going on…
Q: As a release-day purchaser of an iPad, I was elated when you revealed iOS 4.2 would support AirPrint. Now comes reports AirPrint support has been pulled from 4.2. Between announcements/assurances of the white iPhone, and now the pulling of AirPrint, is Apple going to lose credibility and become known for announcing “vaporware”?
A: AirPrint has not been pulled. Don’t believe everything you read.
Apple [AAPL] has pushed out a new update for those running Max OS X Snow Leopard. The new update can be found by clicking on the software updates menu option. The download is 680.1MB in size although this may be different depending on your machine configuration.
The update brings a number of enhancements in the way of stability, compatibility as well as security on your Mac. The full update details can be found below. [Read more…]
Some new touch screen technology is being created that would allow devices such as the Apple iPhone to work when the user is wearing gloves or using a pen.
The touchscreen technology has screens ranging from 3 to 10 inches in size (iPhone to iPad size) and still uses a capacitive touch type technology using projection. [Read more…]
When iOS 4.2 gets released, it will increase the performance of the iPhone 3G. Ever since the launch of iOS 4.0 a few months back, iPhone 3G users have been left with a device that struggles to run as it did with 3.1.X. When iOS 4.1 was released, it some what fixed those problems although there are still a few speed issues here and there.
After a bit of testing of the 4.2 GM release, it appears that Apple [AAPL] has managed to iron out the bugs and bring the iPhone 3G running iOS 4 on par with when it ran iOS 3. [Read more…]
Apple [AAPL] is believed to have created some iPad 2 adverts. The commercials were shot in New Yorks Pier 59 by a photographer called David Sims from Britain. The commercials were said to use the current iPad first gen model although it is believed these particular shots containing the iPad will be switched out with iPad 2s when launch time approaches.
One of the participants told us that even though there weren’t any new products on the scene, everyone had to sign non-disclosure documents and security was tight.
