Showing posts with label Apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apples. Show all posts

Monday, April 25, 2011

Apple's New iPad Touch Tablet Made Its Way


Look into the Apple name and its reputation related to recent releases of iPod and iPhone, its no sweat to show to the public and do some pr. Fortunately, they did give it a name. It is the iPad. iPad? What in the world is that...? A virtual mattress? No! The iPad is to be somewhere in between a laptop and an iPhone. Apple came out with this item to target businessmen, gamers, mac lovers, and every one who are using their products.

Okay, well please justify it a very little much better than simply "a massive iPod".

That's what I am here to do for you! The iPad offers a 9.Seven inch backlit led screen, and is solely 1.Five pounds with a thickness of 0.Five inches. The iPad provides you the capability to download something directly onto it with its bluetooth, wi-fi, and 3g at&t capabilities. All of these capabilities guarantee that the iPad user will be capable of the fastest affiliation and downloading speed out of any of Apple's products.

Is there an app for that? The answer is yes. Yes to any state of affairs one may suppose of. With the iPad, the user has 140,000 apps or more at their fingertips. There are apps being created each second of the day. Want an app? I can assure all that there is one.

Speculators were... Well for an absence of a much better term... Speculating that the price of the iPad would be nearly $800 or even $900. Nevertheless, Apple came out with a debut worth of solely $499! Somehow, Apple really worked on their worth, because the user is paying solely $499 for an iPod and a pc!

The network offered through the iPad is at&t. Some may say how poor of a corporation at&t is, and this, or that. The truth is, at&t is doing everything in its power to confirm that the iPad user obtains the most effective wireless connection. At&t has invested two billion greenbucks into creating a much better experience for the iPad user and is coming up with to invest 900% additional at intervals the next few months. At&t goes to prevent at nothing to create the iPad perfect!

Well, what concerning the options? I think a better approach to ask this is what features does it not have? The iPad options YouTube, safari, one hundred forty,000 apps, photos, iTunes, iPod, app store, iBooks, maps, calendar, and contacts to simply name a few. Any Apple owner knows that Apple has had all of these things since the iPod touch. Well, not solely does it have of these features, however it's the updated versions of all of them.

The iPad features a new accelerometer that has been upgraded from the previous iPhone accelerometer. The iPad's accelerometer uses each x and y axes to ensure a true 3d feel to it. This new upgrade is sensible for the gamers out there.

Apple's new iPad has so many features going for it. The new technology it offers is actually endless. One might not fail getting this new iPad. The targeted audience? The human race.








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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Is the iPad Apple's Way of Attacking the Traditional Windows Laptop Market?


When the iPad was first launched, many of us including myself thought, well this is just a big iPhone. Well isn't it?

Well we have to look at what Laptops are used for these days, and I would suggest that this falls into two camps. The first is consumer consumption, what I mean by this is that consumers are using laptops for social media connectivity, email and media consumption through a web browser. Common applications such as Microsoft Office are rarely used in this camp, as teenagers and silver surfers alike just want to use their laptop basically to stay in touch with the world and possibly update their iTunes library.

With the launch of the iPad, Apple have essentially quenched the thirst for this major part of the laptop market and it now appears that netbooks will largely become irrelevant, as the iPad nicely serves many of the applications that the netbook also serves; however the iPad also has one eye on social media as a primary means of communication.

So, does the iPad serve all the needs of the laptop consumer consumption market? Well, the simple answer is no. The iPad still lacks an integrated webcam which is vital for certain applications such as Skype to work that is intended. It is no longer enough to hear people the modern consumer also wants to view the person that they are speaking with.

The second part of the laptop market, which can be coined as the professional user will be much more difficult for Apple to penetrate. First of all, many professionals are used to tapping away on a standard qwerty keyboard, this may seem like a simple thing and many people would say, well the iPad does have a qwerty keyboard, but what is vital for the professional is high levels of productivity and whilst the iPad may serve some applications, many professionals will not take the iPad seriously enough until a standard qwerty keyboard is applied.

In answer to some of these issues, as Apple continues to change and shape the laptop market with the iPad, the lack of the iPad's functionality enables accessory manufacturers to fill these gaps that the lack of functionality creates.

One issue is Apple's lack of data expansion ports, in that the iPad is essentially a closed system for data storage and transfer and the only means of data transfer is essentially by email. Until Apple addresses this issue (as many competing tablet PC manufacturers have), the Camera Connection Kit will become one of your essential iPad Accessories. What the iPad Camera Connection Kit does is essentially act as an interface for a standard camera SD card to hold and transfer data to and from the Apple iPad.

I know that this may seem like a simple product, but as the iPad is a great visual display tool the ability to transfer professional photographs (and other documents) from your camera to the iPad serves many applications that the standard iPad just does not serve well enough. The iPad Camera Connection Kit serves is a great solution and serves this problem well.








In terms of addressing the issue: "the iPad does not have a professional keyboard", the iPad Keyboard and Case addresses this issue extremely well. This essential iPad Accessory, in effect transforms the iPad from a Tablet PC to something that is more akin to a standard laptop; what the iPad Keyboard and Case does is address the issues raised of the professional laptop user and improve the productivity output for the professional laptop user.

To conclude, does the Apple iPad serve all the applications of a standard Microsoft OS based laptop? Well simply put, no, but what Apple are doing is shaping the market and keeping up with common trends in terms of building devices that is evolving the modern consumer communications market. Like the iPhone, the iPad will change the landscape of how media and information is communicated, transmitted and received and will become a mass market product to challenge and rival the traditional laptop market.


Monday, March 14, 2011

The Future is Now - Apple's Revolutionary iPad


In science fiction you see depiction of devices that we will carry around in our hands and do everything for us. That device is no longer science fiction, it is current and it is the Apple iPad. This invention will revolutionize the way we live our lives. Now people can have everything they need in the palm of their hand. This product can be a traveling entertainment hub. You can store an entire iTunes library on it, you can stream movies from Netflix on it, you will even be able to play games on the iPad. But it is not just for having fun it can also improve business, optimize communication, and information retrieval.

The Apple iPad is revolutionizing the way we are entertained. We will now be carrying more entertainment with us than we could ever possibly need. Apple has really taken it to the next level with this technology. You are not limited to what you have in your iTunes library; you have the entire internet to your disposal. So YouTube, Netflix and other websites are all at your disposal 24/7. With e-books rising in popularity and the iPad able to meet that demand this is just another feature that makes the iPad a must have.

The iPad is not only about having fun, it is also a great tool to add to any business. Through the iPad paper work can be beamed from one iPad to another. Also you can use it for note taking and many other things. It can replace hours of paper work and filing by making things streamlined and digital. It's easy to set the iPad up to run efficiently with any business. This is all started by creating a configuration profile which includes information about your company's VPN, email, wireless network, and pass code policies. This profile can be sent to each iPad either over the air or via USB.

The iPad is almost guaranteed to be a success. With all the different gadgets that are starting to come about the iPad has found a way to stream line everything into to one sleek sexy device. The iPad will be able to replace items such as Barnes and Nobel's Nook and Amazons Kindle which are the current top E-Book readers on the market. Also this device will be able to replace laptops for many people who don't have massive amounts of computing power on the fly. Apps are going to be the feature to put the iPad ahead of the competition. These are what people loved about the iPhone and they are part of the iPad as well. There are 1,000 iPad apps and 150,000 iPhone apps and they all work on the iPad.

The iPad runs a similar operating system to the one that is currently on the iPhone and the iPod touch but the iPad is much more powerful. The iPad has a 9.7-inch LED backlit multi-touch display, 16 to 64 gigabytes (GB) of flash memory, Bluetooth, and a 30-pin dock connector to sync with iTunes and connect wired accessories. There are two different models that have been announced both have 802.11n Wi-Fi capabilities but one also has the ability to connect to the 3G wireless network and assisted GPS. The iPad is not only the hottest new gadget on the market but a step forward in the digitization of the America. It is going to simplify the way we do everything from entertain ourselves to how we do work at our jobs. Apple hopes to bring us one step closer to the world of tomorrow that was predicted in the science fiction movies of today.








Derek Granger


Saturday, March 12, 2011

Apple's New Tablet - What Will iPad Cost and How Does it Work?


Apple has finally done it. Apple has released its new tablet device, that is. The Mac public was expecting, indeed clamoring -- for Apple to release such a device -- and soon! For Apple to have failed to do so would have been a major letdown (to its customers as well as its stockholders). The momentum was just impossible to resist.

After all, the iPhone is essentially a miniature tablet computer. Apple has shown that it can "do" such a device like no one else. So, despite Steve Jobs past protestations, releasing a new tablet was a no-brainer. All Apple had to do is scale up its brilliant interface to a larger device.

Did I say "all Apple had to do?" The technical challenges in producing this new device, called the iPad, were enormous. Apple had to essentially design a whole new operating system that is not quite the Mac and not quite the iPhone, rewrite its core applications from scratch, and basically rethink the entire way a computer operates.

Apple was not the first to release a new tablet computer, just as it was not the first to release an MP3 player or cell phone, but it may well be the company that succeeds in making the tablet computer truly "catch fire" with the public.

Apple has a tremendous head start with 140,000+ apps for the iPhone, and it wisely designed the iPad to take advantage of them. The iPad can run iPhone apps at their original size, or in "pixel doubled mode" twice the size as on the iPhone, so that they nearly fill the iPad screen. Developers can easily rewrite their iPhone apps specifically for the iPad in such a way as to take advantage of its new features.

How will the iPad affect Internet marketers? Of course, the "i" in its name stands for Internet (and it's also a clever play on the name of the "iPod"). Surfing the web will be a joy, and a larger screen will give users much more room to work with. Apple's developers brag that it's like "holding the entire Internet in your hand," or like reading a physical book or magazine.

Creation of new apps for the iPad by developers could rival the gold rush that sprang up around the iPhone. Apple offers the SDK 3.2 beta for developers with the tools they need to start creating applications for the iPad, and an iPad simulator that lets them build and run applications on the Mac, lay out the user interface, test memory usage and debug.

Web graphic designers and artists will enjoy the included Brushes application on the iPad's larger screen, although some may feel that it is something like fingerpainting -- a stylus that works with the iPad will not be supported, at least not initially.

Apple has completely rewritten its productivity software iWork for the iPad. Keynote contains custom graph styles, custom-designed themes, animations and effects, and brand-new features designed just for the iPad. Pages includes Apple-designed templates and formatting tools. Numbers offers over 250 formulas, flexible tables and sophisticated charts.

Want to catch up on your marketing reading? Apple has worked hard to make reading e-books, magazines and newspapers pleasurable on the iPad. Apple's e-book reading software has an interface that looks like a bookshelf. Flip the bookshelf over with your finger, and you're brought to the online store where you can purchase new books.

The iPad's built-in Safari browser works just like the one on your Mac. And, like the version on your iPhone, you can scroll through pages by flicking your finger across them, or pinch or double tap to zoom in on a photo.

The Mail application offers a landscape view with a split screen showing both the current e-mail and the unread messages in your inbox. Want to view the current e-mail message by itself? Simply turn the iPad to portrait mode and the message zooms to fill the screen. The iPad will work with popular e-mail providers such as mobile me, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail and AOL. To compose a message, you just tap and start typing.

This brings us to the onscreen keyboard. Many pundits wondered how text entry would work on Apple's new tablet device. You can use an external keyboard for typing long documents if you wish. However, I think Apple made the right decision in not attempting to build a physical keyboard into the tablet. The goal of the iPad is to bring your data and web surfing up close for an intimate feel. A keypad would simply get between you and the screen.

The on-screen keyboard is much larger, of course, than what is possible on the iPhone. In landscape mode, the keyboard is almost as large as that on a standard laptop. With just a few tweaks to the word recognition and auto-correction features of the iPhone software, typing on this virtual keyboard, I suspect, could be almost as fast as using a real one. Plus, I believe that voice dictation apps could come quickly to the iPad, just as they have to the iPhone.

And, of course, the iPad includes all of the same features as the iPhone, only in a larger form--video, YouTube, the iPod and iTunes, interactive satellite maps, the notepad, a calendar completely redesigned from the ground up for the iPad, Contacts and Spotlight search.

The iPad will be shipped in three different internal storage configurations and with the option of Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi + 3G, for a total of six different models. The base model, the 16 GB Wi-Fi only, will start at a reasonable $499, while the top of the line 64 GB Wi-Fi + 3G model will tip the scales at a still affordable $829. Apple has said that, while most new technologies are introduced at a higher price point and slowly work their way down, Apple wanted to do things differently.

When will the iPad be available? Apple expects the Wi-Fi models to ship in late March and the 3G models to ship in April.

The thinness, just 0.5 inches, the light weight, just 1.5 pounds, and the flexibility of this new device are sure to make the iPad popular with Internet marketers and anyone on the go. With its high resolution LED backlight, it's larger display, it's responsive multi-touch screen and its powerful Apple-designed processor, the new iPad will be thin and light enough to take anywhere. And I suspect that many people will choose to do exactly that.








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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Specs, Pros and Cons of Apple's iPad


Maybe it was bound to happen: after releasing the iPod and iPhone, Apple has recently unveiled another product in its "i" series: the iPad. The iPad is a "tablet computer" whose function greatly resembles Apple's iPod Touch. Basically, a tablet computer is what it its name suggests: a flat mobile computer with a touchscreen or an electronic pen. Apple plans to release the WiFi version of the iPad in March of 2010, and the WiFi + 3G model during the following month.

iPad Specifications

Here are some of the key specs of the iPad, which you should know:

Height: 9.56 inches

Width: 7.47 inches

Depth: 0.5 inches

Weight: 1.5 pounds (Wi-Fi)

1.6 pounds (Wi-Fi + 3G)

Screen size: 9.7 inches

Pixel resolution: 1024 x 768

Capacity: 16GB/32GB/64 GB flash drive

Processor: 1 Gigahertz

Accessories: dock, keyboard dock, case, camera connection kit

iPad Pros

1. Look and feel.

One of the main benefits of the iPad is that it has the fantastic look and feel, which it shares with the iPod and iPhone. If you liked how those previous products fit into your hand, then you'll definitely be pleased with the iPad. The touch-screen interface complements the larger screen well, allowing you to conveniently use the array of iPad applications.

2. Speed.

In this Information Age that we live in, we need a constant flow of information. With the iPad, you can easily surf the Net, open various applications, resize windows, and so on. In fact, users will be delighted at how quickly and easily they can use the cornucopia of applications that the iPad has to offer.

3. iWork.

With Apple's iWork office suite, work can actually become fun. Whether you need a word processor, spreadsheets, or presentation software, iWork can make your work convenient and convenient. This feature makes the iPad more than a mere gadget for surfing the Net or playing games. Of course, the iPad's games still remind us of that saying about "all work and no play".

4. Flexibility.

The iPad basically fuses some of the best elements of the iPhone and laptop computer. For instance, the larger screen provides more applications than you'd have with the iPhone. And whether you want to flip through pictures, music, or video, you can do it much more easily on the iPad, than via a laptop.

iPad Cons

1. No flash video.

With the iPad, Apple has tried to maximize the efficiency of Web surfing and multimedia functions. But one of the results is the lack of flash video embedded in the web pages. You'll feel that something's missing in your Web browsing-because it is!

2. Battery life.

The official word from Apple is 10 hours. But if you're extensively using applications such as video, expect that figure to be significantly lower.

3. Multi-tasking (or lack thereof).

In particular, the IPad lacks a webcam, or even a basic digital camera!

4. Unoriginal name.

You could have guessed its name before Apple supplied it.

Basically, if you were a fan of the iPod and iPhone, then you'll likely love the iPad. If you're not one of those people, then the iPad might be an iFlop.








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Friday, March 4, 2011

iPad Touch - Apple's Latest Fruit


Is there anyone who doesn't want to have an iPad touch?

Apple has once again produced a fruit of genius---the iPad touch. The fresh product of Apple, iPad touch, is one of the most coveted multi-purpose devices that allow users to peruse the Web, use email, play music and games, store pictures and watch videos, TV and movies. The iPad touch looks very like a bigger iPhone, but is not simply an iPhone. It also features a portable or a netbook but it is smaller in comparison to that. In fact, iPad is a new, exciting technology that works as a full laptop and an iPhone yet is a class all its own.

In addition, the device is 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds - lighter than any netbook and includes a 9.7-inch LED-backlit display with IPS technology. It also includes a 1GHz Apple-built A4 processor which incorporates the CPU and graphics. It's got a 178-degree viewing angle and sports a 1024768 pixel resolution display at 132 pixels per in.. That implies iPad permits you to execute things you can't do on any other machine. Plus it has the following features for such a sleek and light device:

Safari

The large multi-touch screen on iPad lets you see webpages as they were intended to be seen - one full page at a time.

Mail

by using a split-screen view, you can see both an opened email and all the messages in your mail.

Photographs

iPad is an extraordinary way to enjoy and share stills. For instance, you can collect and display your stills in an album like they're in a stack. You can flip through your photos, zoom in or out, watch a slideshow, or even use iPad like a digital photo frame. One of the other good features of iPad is easily importing and synchronizing stills from your personal computer.

Video

any sort of video can simply be observed on the big and high-resolution screen on the iPad. IPad has a huge screen with no buttons and no other distracting features. So you can watch your HD movies, television shows or any videos by feeling completely immersed.

iPad is integrated with iPod apps.

iTunes

To skim and buy podcasts, TV shows or music, just tap on the iTunes Store icon. You will quickly find thousands of television shows, movies, songs and podcasts. iPad also enables you to preview songs before you purchase them.

App Store

iPad is virtually integrated with 140.000 apps from the App Store. By drumming the App Store icon on the screen, apps can be perused, bought, and downloaded wirelessly without delay to the iPad.

iBooks

iPad offers us another a great way to read or buy books.?t is even possible to see topography with the new terrain view. But there's more: you may also search for a close-by business type and tap the business to see the route and directions from where you are.

Notes

iPad uses an expansive display and large, onscreen keyboard to make jotting down notes straightforward for you.

Calendar

iPad supplies the calendar you need by showing Day, Week, Month or List perspectives. In this fashion, iPad allows for a top level view of a whole month, or the details of a single day.

Spotlight Search

you can search your mail, contacts, calendar, iPod, and notes across iPad. Its spotlight Search feature even permits you to search apps you have downloaded from the App Store. This allows you to quickly find what you're trying to find. I mean, just imagine how such a light contraption could carry a large amount of hi-tech features in its body; you certainly won't expect it to be as inexpensive as you want it to be. Or certainly you could not expect Apple to create such a device only to give away free iPad touch to us, right?

However, there are sites that offer to offer you free iPad touch if you complete their offers and if you are actually prepared to have one, you can check for free iPad touch offers in the net; Or if you can afford to purchase one, why not? Either way, the iPad touch will not give you any regrets for purchasing it. I suspect those wonderful features, fascinating and classy design is reason enough as to the reasons why you should buy one right now!








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