The iPad 3 may still be a mystery to most as we await its official launch in March, but new reports say that it won’t be the only tablet Apple pushes out this year. Read more
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An untethered iPhone 4S jailbreak that Joe Public can make use of will be released next week according to a top iPhone hacker working on the project. iPhone 4S owners, your wait is nearly at an end – and iPad 2 owners will benefit too.
It’s Black Friday at Apple, meaning that prices on most of the tech-maker’s kit have been discounted. Black Friday is the online store communities way of trying to coerce you into starting your Christmas shopping, but has Apple done enough across the board? Read more
Amazon has devised a clever yet unoriginally means of besting the iPad — it will focus on price. Using its economies of scale, Amazon will introduce its first tablet for “hundreds less” than Apple’s iPad 2. According to the New York Post, the company’s first of at least two Android tablets will be released in either September or October.
This is not our first rodeo with the Amazon’s tablet line. Back in May BGR reported that Amazon was working on two prototypes: the dual-core “Coyote” and the quad-core “Hollywood”. Assuming this information is accurate, the “Coyote” would presumably launch first — corresponding with the September or October time frame.
Id Software has used the Facebook Like button for good. It promised to make Rage and Rage HD free if it reached 100,000 Likes on its Facebook page and it’s done just that. For the next week, you can grab the game for free from the iTunes App Store.
That’s a great deal as the on-rails shooter set at a mutant-hunting gameshow is still one of the best iPhone games out there and has had some nice updates since we first raved about it back in November last year. If you’ve got an iPhone 4, the original iPad or the iPad 2, grab Rage HD to enjoy high quality mutant mauling.
Currently the iPad 2 features displays from LG and Samsung with LG commanding the lion’s share of production. According to Reuters this is due to change. Allegedly Apple is “working out a deal with Sharp” involving a pre-payment (up to $1 billion) to ensure future display supply.
Although LG is the primary supplier of iPad 2 displays, according to 9to5Mac the biggest loser will actually be Samsung. Samsung only recently began supplying IPS panels for the iPad 2 and following reports over quality control issues with LG’s displays, Samsung was in a position to increase production.
The latest findings from DisplayResearch show that Apple has passed HP in mobile PC shipments during the second quarter. Thanks chiefly to the success of the iPad 2, Apple managed to ship a reported 13.5m units, representing a rise of 136 percent from the year-ago quarter. Not a bad to start the day for the Cupertino gang.
According to DisplayResearch, the 13.5m units Apple shipped in the second quarter represent 21 percent of the mobile PC market. This information along with other manufacturers’ data is contained in the company’s “Quarterly Mobile PC shipment and Forecast Report” which it release today.
As a kid I remember flipping through the pages of the JCPenny catalog at Christmas time, hoping to find the perfect toy to have Santa cram down the chimney. Today, we have Google Catalogs — an app which aggregates digital versions of catalogs from more than a dozen brands covering everything from fashion and jewelry to gifts. With an endless stream of Android Honeycomb tablets on the market why did Google launch the app on the iPad first?