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ipadiPad: Apple’s magical and revolutionary new tablet

iPad takes Apple’s iPhone efforts to the IMAX. It’s big 9.7″, 1024×768 LCD IPS display gives IOS apps room to breathe. Debuting iOS 3.2 (it’s scheduled for an iOS 4 update this fall) and iBooks, it’s designed to provide the best experience possible for browsing the web, checking email, watching video, looking at photos, and playing games. Available in Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G. Need to know more? Keep reading!

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mophie juice pack air for iPhone 4 preview

Dieter’s at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany and he’s scored us a first look at mophie’s upcoming juice pack air for iPhone 4. It’s got soft touch paint and they claim ZERO signal degredation because the entire PCB board is on the bottom, so there are no electronics around the antenna. It’s shipping to [...]

Apple Special Music Event 2010 round-up

Apple Special Music Event 2010

Once again Steve Jobs put sneaker to stage and at the Apple Special Music Event 2010 wowed the crowed with new gorgeous new hardware, stunning new software, and… services of a sort. The big stories were iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2, the new iPod touch, iPod nano, and Apple TV, and iTunes 10 with its [...]

iOS 4.2 coming soon for iPad… and iPhone

iOS 4.2 coming soon for iPad... and iPhone

If Steve Jobs announced that iOS 4.2 would be coming to iPhone during his keynote a the special music event yesterday, I missed it, but that’s what Apple.com’s new preview page says:

Look for iOS 4.2 coming in November for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.1

(That footnote reads “not compatible with all models” so likely [...]

Epic 4G and Galaxy Tab – Sammy’s double competitive whammy

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Full Sprint Epic 4G review – Galaxy Tab preview

Phil and Dieter over at sibling site Android Central have gone a little Samsung Galaxy-class crazy, with a full review of the Sprint Epic 4G and an advanced look at the Galaxy Tab tablet (including hands-on video and spec shootout vs. our own iPad).

So is the Epic [...]

Steve Jobs: 230,000 iOS activations a day, not counting upgrades like Google. Google responds.

230,000 iOS devices activated every day

During his 2010 Apple special music event numbers breakdown, Steve Jobs said that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS devices a day. He made sure to point out those were new activations and said some of their “friends” (read: Google) are counting upgrades in their numbers (200,000 Android activations a day).

“If we counted upgrades [...]

120,000,000 iOS devices sold, 250,000 apps, 6.5 billion downloads – by the numbers

120,000,000 iOS device sold by September 1, 2010

As usual, Steve Jobs began his Apple music event keynote today by giving a breakdown of iOS devices sold to date — 120,000,000. It took them from June 2007 to June 2010 to reach 100,000,000 and only 3 months to add another 20,000,000 on top of that. Jobs also said they’re activating new devices at [...]

Epic Citadel for iPhone, iPad demo now in App Store

Epic Citadel demo for iPhone

One of the highlights of today’s Apple special music event was Epic who showed off their first iOS game. The game, an action-packed, sword-fighting, RPG adventure looked beyond gorgeous (it’s from the people who made Gears of War, what do you expect?) and it’s coming later this year.

But you can snag a copy of the [...]

iOS 4.1 for iPhone, iPod touch next week, iOS 4.2 for iPad in November

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As part of their special music event today, Steve Jobs announced iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod touch would be coming next week, and iOS 4.2 for iPad would be coming in November.

iOS 4.1 includes everything we’ve seen so far, including bug fixes for the proximity sensor, Bluetooth, iPhone 3G performance. It also adds HDR [...]

Apple live streaming music event to test new data center?

Cult of Mac claims a source has told them Apple is live streaming today’s special music event as a way to test their massive new, North Carolina data center, set to go fully operational later this year.

Apple’s first live video broadcast in years is a test of the server farm’s ability to stream [...]

Apple Special Music Event — Watch along with TiPb! [Sticky]

Apple 2010 Special Music Event

Apple will be streaming this year’s special music event live (here’s the link), and we’ll be here to provide all the color and commentary you’ve grown to love… or to love to hate. So if you’re watching, come watch with us. Party starts now!

Fox, ABC to offer $0.99 iTunes rentals, CBS, NBC to keep heads buried in sand?

“People familiar with the situation” (yes, them again) have told the Wall Street Journal that both Fox and ABC are good to go on $0.99 iTunes TV show rentals, and will be announced later today at Apple’s special music event. Since ABC is owned by Disney, whose largest shareholder is Steve Jobs, their getting on [...]

Apple to live stream September 1 special music event

Apple holding special event September 1, 2010

UPDATE: Here’s the link to the whole event on Apple.com

Throwing caution — and bandwidth! — to the wind, Apple has just announced that tomorrow, for the first time in recent memory, they’ll be live streaming one of their keynote events:

Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, [...]

Do you still regularly sync your iPhone with iTunes?

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Tomorrow at their annual special music event, Apple might announce a new version of iTunes (iTunes X?) — maybe with $0.99 TV rentals or streaming cloud music — and thinking about that made me realize I hardly if ever sync my iPhone with iTunes anymore.

Just before iPhone 4 came out the Apple Store swapped out [...]

Speck Fitted Case for iPad – accessory review

The Speck Fitted Case for iPad is a hard shell case with a soft fabric backing. It snaps together from two parts — the plain black bezel that wraps around the top and outlines the ports, and the textured, pink and black plaid that covers the back plate.

Two part cases are typically more secure [...]

Dodonpachi Resurrection for iPhone – app review

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Do you like old-school shooters? If so, Dodonpachi Resurrection is the game for you! Cave has brought out another awesome shooter on the iPhone (the first being Espgaluda II).

There are two game modes in DoDonPachi. The first is iPhone mode which is a great way to jump in and play. It uses a hit variable [...]

iTunes song previews doubling to 60 seconds?

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At their annual special music event tomorrow, could Steve Jobs announce that Apple’s iTunes song previews are doubling to 60 seconds? That’s what CNET is hearing rumored:

Currently, iTunes offers 30-second snippets of songs, a feature designed to give users a taste of the music to help them decide whether they like it enough [...]

AutoCAD coming to iPhone, iPad

AutoCAD coming to iPhone, iPad

As part of their grand re-introduction to Mac, AutoDesk has announced that they’ll also be bringing AutoCAD to iPhone and iPad:

The Mac version will cost $3,995, the same as the PC version, and will be released in October. AutoDesk will soon introduce a free mobile version of the software that will run on [...]

Wi-Fi only iPad regret, Jailbreak apps, iPhone data usage, App Store games – From the Forums

The TiPb forums are naturally a great place to talk, commiserate, celebrate, get help, and offer advice to your fellow iPhone users. In order to create a new thread of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, you must be a registered member. Becoming a member is easy and free so if [...]

Sudoku 2 HD Pro for iPad- app review

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I have to admit, I am not much of a Sudoku player. Not because I don’t like it, but because I am horrendously slow at it and I always feel inadequate playing since my wife is about twice as fast as me solving puzzles on even a much higher difficulty. However, I sucked up my [...]

Angry Birds 1.4.1 and Angry Birds HD 1.4.1 hit App Store

Angry Birds for iPhone and its big brother, Angry Birds HD for iPad, have been updated to make it even birdier and, I fear, angrier. New features in version 1.4.1 consist of:

15 levels have been reconstructed A new golden egg has been added Fresh new achievements are included And, um… fantastic feathered fun is plentiful

The iPad version hit [...]

Infineon WLS sold: iPhone’s 3G baseband now Intel inside

Intel has announced that they’ve bought Infineon’s wireless solutions business (WLS) for 1.4 billion dollars, which includes the Infineon 3G radio baseband used in iPhone. Here’re the PR bullets:

WLS sale enables Infineon to expand leading position in markets for automotive, industry and security technologies. WLS will operate as a standalone business. Intel is committed to serving [...]

Imaginary 7-inch iPad gets real competition from Samsung

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While rumors persist Apple will be introducing a 7-inch version of iPad at some point, it looks like Samsung is wasting no time getting their 7-inch competition — the Galaxy Tab — ready for launch. Hey, at least they’re not calling it GalactiPad or SammyPad, right?

Here are the purported specs:

HD video playback 7″ screen Android 2.2 (Froyo) Video [...]

iPad now shipping in 24hrs

iPads shipping in 24 hrs

Apple’s online store now lists both iPad Wi-Fi and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G as shipping in 24hrs, and not just in the US but in international stores from Canada to the UK as well.

Supplies of Apple’s “magical and revolutionary” new device have been highly constrained since launch, leading delays in international rollouts and concerns that [...]

OS x.1

This Wednesday, at their annual special music event, Apple will most likely introduce the final version of iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod touch (though probably not for iPad). Apple released the first beta for iOS 4.1 on July 14 and stuck to their every-two-weeks cycle for beta 2 on July 27 and beta 3 [...]

Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, Facebook, puppy dogs, all things good and decent (not Microsoft)

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has dropped the patent suit hammer on Apple, Google, Facebook, AOL, eBay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube, accusing them of violating his lab’s innovations in internet commerce. According to the Wall Street Journal:

For Mr. Allen, the lawsuit marks new terrain. He is aggressively going after companies, [...]