Work in a university, school or college and want a whole load of iPads for your students (or just to share among the staff)? Apple have begun offering bundled packs of ten iPads, intended for purchase by educational institutions, which offer a slight discount on buying the touchscreen tablets individually.
$4,790 gets you ten 16GB iPad [...]
Information on Amazon’s plans to get their Kindle app onto the iPad have emerged, with the bookseller demonstrating their software to the NYT together with releasing screenshots of what the tablet UI will look like. According to Amazon’s Ian Freed, VP of Kindle, the company’s software team “have actually developed a tablet-based interface that redesigns [...]
Apple may not have experienced the iPad delay some analysts predicted, but it seems their accessory supply chain is falling short. Several of the company’s own add-ons for the iPad – including the iPad Keyboard Dock – are not expected to begin shipping until a month after the WiFi iPad itself.
At launch, the iPad Keyboard [...]
Apple’s WiFi + 3G iPad may not be expected until late April 2010, but the company have revealed some of the on-device controls for managing connectivity. We already knew that Apple had attempted to streamline the 3G process, allowing owners to activate, control and cancel service all directly from the iPad itself, but now we [...]
Apple have used their Apple Store refresh to update some of the iPad information, most notably further information on their iBooks app. Available in the App Store for US customers only, we now know that iBooks will support non-DRM ePUB ebooks, which can be loaded via iTunes.
Previously, while we’d known that Apple was using the [...]
Apple’s iPad has arrived for preorder, though as expected you’ll have to wait until April 3rd before your multitouch tablet arrives. Having been taken down earlier today for updating, the Apple Store is now accepting preorders for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB WiFi-only iPad models, priced at $499, $599 and $699 respectively.
Curiously, however, while Apple [...]
Barnes & Noble have confirmed that they are working on a version of their B&N eReader ebook reader software suited for Apple’s upcoming iPad. In a post on the company’s blog, B&N describe the free app as offering the same ebook access as their nook dedicated ereader.
Apple have officially confirmed that their iPad tablet will go on sale in the US on Saturday, April 3. On that day you’ll be able to walk into an Apple store and pick up the WiFi model; alternatively, preorders will be taken online from March 12.
Apple could well find themselves the cause of an SSD shortage, manufacturers are claiming, as the iPad increases the company’s already-ravenous hunger for NAND flash. The iPod and iPhone lines apparently consume almost one-third of total NAND flash output, and that’s only set to increase as iPad production ramps up.
As a result, industry experts are [...]
If the iPad really does arrive on shelves come March 26th, will you be buying one straight away or waiting for a 3G version? AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson reckons most people will be doing the former; the outspoken exec told investors this week that he doesn’t envisage the iPad adding many subscribers to the carrier, [...]
Developers digging through the latest iPad SDK Beta 3 documentation have found confirmation that the Apple tablet does indeed use graphics chips from the same PowerVR SGX family as the iPhone 3GS and iPod touch. However the exact identity of the chipset is still unknown.
“Using OpenGL ES on iPad is identical to using OpenGL ES [...]
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