As noted by TechnoBuffalo, well-connected Apple proponent John Gruber (of DaringFireball) made some interesting comments today regarding the oft-rumored “iPad mini” on his weekly 5by5 podcast with Dan Benjamin. Gruber claimed that he has been told by a number of Apple insiders that a 7.85-inch tablet exists inside Apple’s labs, but he’s unsure when or [...]
So this is pretty interesting: Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray‘s senior Apple analyst, published a report yesterday claiming that one in three U.S. high school students now own an iPhone. The data comes from the firm’s semi-annual survey of U.S. teens, in which they poll over 5,500 high school students to see what technology they’re currently [...]
Dolphin, a popular third-party Android browser, finally got ported to the iPhone last August. It’s seen more than ten million total downloads on both platforms since. Featuring custom gestures, a clever user interface design, advanced features and many customizable options, it’s the favorite non-Apple browser on my iPhone. Developer MoboTap Inc. updated the iPhone version of Dolphin [...]
Two years ago today, the iPad went on sale in the United States for the first time. The launch came just two months after Steve Jobs unveiled the tablet on January 27, 2010, in front of a large crowd at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The CEO told the audience that Apple felt that [...]
The ailing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion today released the BlackBerry Mobile Fusion enterprise server software, first announced last November. Among the features is built-in support for tablets and smartphones running Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android software. This is the first time RIM comprehensively supported iOS mobile devices in a major corporate enterprise server software.(…)Read the rest [...]
That Apple is toying with a bunch of varied gaming controller concepts is anything but unknown. Two years ago, an interesting Apple patent detailing an accessory for playing games with portable devices surfaced in the United States Patents & Trademark Office’s database. It was originally filed back in September of 2008, meaning the company had [...]
It took them a while but Facebook has finally updated their iPad application with Retina display graphics. The update also brings a few new features as well as minor bug fixes. Considering how big Facebook is, I find it slightly disappointed they take so long to release such a simple update. Anyway, we have listed [...]
It took them a while but Facebook has finally updated their iPad application with Retina display graphics. The update also brings a few new features as well as minor bug fixes. Considering how big Facebook is, I find it slightly disappointed they take so long to release such a simple update. Anyway, we have listed [...]
The new iPad has been out for nearly three weeks now, and most of the folks who are going to weigh in on the tablet, have. The Retina display looks great, and LTE is lightning-fast. But otherwise the consensus seems to be that it’s not much different than its predecessor. This has spawned quite the [...]
Apple’s doing lots of clarifying lately, that much is clear. Just this day, the company finally tweaked the problematic “4G” wording for the new iPad in Australia and clarified warranty coverage options in the European Union. In both these instances, Apple moved only following regulatory pressure or when threatened with class-action lawsuits. So, if you [...]
