The Apple iPad: Finally!
January 27, 2010
Apple’s finally unveiled the iPad. It’s a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it’s running a custom 1GHz Apple “A4″ chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It’ll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it’s got the expected connectivity: very little. There’s a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi and optional 3G, as well as an accelerometer and a compass. There’s also a keyboard dock, which connects underneath in the portrait orientation, support for up to 1024×768 VGA out and 480p composite out through new dock adapter cables, and a camera attachment kit that lets you import photos from your camera over USB or directly through an SD reader. The device is managed by iTunes, just like the iPhone — you sync everything over to your Mac. As expected, it can run iPhone apps — either pixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen — but developers can also target the new screen size using the updated iPhone OS SDK, which is available today. The 3G version runs on AT&T and comes with new data plans: 250MB for $14.99 and an unlimited plan for $29.99 a month contract-free. Activations are handled on the iPad, so you can activate and cancel whenever you want. Every iPad is unlocked and comes with a GSM “micro-SIM,” so you can use it abroad, but there aren’t any international deals in place right now — Steve says they’ll be back “this summer” with news on that front.
It starts at $499 for 16GB, 32GB for $599, and $699 64GB. Adding 3G costs a $130 per model, so the most expensive model (64GB / 3G) is $829. The WiFi-only model will ship in 60 days, and the 3G models will come in 90.
Google’s iPhone Speech Recognition App
November 16, 2008
Google has developed an app for iPhone which gives advanced speech recognition. The app is able to answer location related questions (For Example - “Where’s the nearest Tim Horton’s?” or “How tall is CN Tower?”). It can also give directions, and answer generic questions.
“The thing works by recording the soundbite, uploading to Google’s servers which will crunch the data and return an answer “within seconds on a fast wireless network”.
Google being Google, will be releasing this as a free App for all iPhone users. Oh Google, you spoil us you know…much love big G.
Look for it on November 17th 2008.
Got an iPhone - Get Fastlane Street Racing
November 15, 2008
Fastlane Street Racing Features:
• 8 Punishing city routes
• 2 High speed racetracks
• 6 Fiendish challenge tracks
• 5 Game modes
• Save and review replays
• 10 Original cars (including unlockables)
• Unlockable cars, skins, and modes
• Amazing graphics and effects
Apple’s two new MacBooks - 13-inch & 15-inch
October 15, 2008
Yesterday, Apple released two new MacBooks. The 13-inch MacBook and the new 15-inch MacBook Pro.
The new 13-inch Macbook is powered by 2.0GHz or 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed, 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB and comes with 13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colors, 8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD-R DL/DVD-RW/CD-RW), illuminated keyboard and 160GB or 250GB hard drive.
Neither MacBook has a button on the trackpad, the new trackpad doubles up as a button, just press down anywhere. The new multi-trackpad supports two-finger scrolling, pinch, rotate, three-finger swipe, four-finger swipe, tap, double-tap, and drag capabilities and it is made from wear-resistant etched glass.
Macbook Air - Makes the X61 look like a house
January 15, 2008
Features:
- The obvious — It’s o.76″ thin
- 13.3″LCD Screen
- 1-USB port, headphone jack, Micro-DVI port,
- 1.6 or 1.8 Ghz Intel Core 2 processor w/800Mhz front-side bus
- 2GB Ram
- 80GB HDD or 64GB SSD
- iSight Camera
- 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- Full-Size keyboard with 78 Keys
- Multi-Touch mouse (Pinch, swipe, rotate, etc…)
Dimensions:
Height: 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm)
Width: 12.8 inches (32.5 cm)
Depth: 8.94 inches (22.7 cm)
Weight: 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg)
See more at Apple
Rogers picks up iPhone - Canadian’s hide their wallets
October 28, 2007
Say hello to iPhone.
A Boy Genius report states (now this doesn’t mean it’s true) that Rogers and the iPhone are teaming up for a December 7th 2007 release date. So, what will Canadians be paying for their new toy? $499 on a three-year contract….If I’m not mistaken our golden dollar is (at the time of 11:52am Oct. 27) worth 1.037883 U.S. dollars.
Most likely this rumour is not true, and Canadians will have to continue to sneak across the border in order to get their iPhone. To be honest, I would rather cross the border and pick up an iPhone for the bargain basement price of $399 USD or $383 CND than be extorted by Rogers. Crap, I’ll even sign-up with AT&T and pay long distance charges.
Conan’s iPhone commercial
August 11, 2007
