You’ve been hankering for this. And now you get to be somewhat angry at Apple for having bought a third-generation iPad, oh, six months ago. Per Macworld, Apple unveiled the long-rumored iPad mini along with a fourth-generation of the standard model. The iPad mini is 7.2mm thick—23 percent thinner than the new, fourth-generation iPad—“thin as […]
Tag: Smart Cover
This is kind of interesting. Per the United States Patent Trademark Office, Apple has applied for a patent in which a Smart Cover unit would take power from a connector on the side of the iPad to drive a flexible display in one of the cover segments for adding extra icons, controlling media playback, or […]
A little competition never hurt anyone. Per Engadget, Microsoft debuted its Surface Windows 8 tablet on Monday at a last-minute special event in Los Angeles, marking the tech monolith’s entrance into the iPad-dominated tablet market. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, showed off the tablet computer based on the company’s new Windows 8 operating system he called […]
The new iPad is out. Now it’s time for the devices, the accessories and peripherals (first party or otherwise) to catch up to it. Per MacOtakara, attempting to use an old Apple Digital AV Adapter with the new iPad results in an alert that it is “not optimized” for the device, though the accessory still […]
It’s the discounts that sometimes provide the best hints as to a product released. Per AppleInsider, U.S. big-box retailer Meijer, has slashed the in-store price of the 16GB iPad 2 with Wi-Fi by US$70, even as Apple’s third-generation tablet is expected to hit the market within weeks. The chain announced the sale in its weekly […]