Amazon hasn’t released actual sales figures for the Kindle Fire tablet, but the company has repeatedly said that the $199 tablet (sometimes $139) is one of its top-selling products. But according to industry analysts at IDC, Amazon Kindle Fire shipments fell off a cliff between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. IDC says that Amazon moved 4.8…
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When Apple introduced the “new iPad” with a retina display a few months ago, the company didn’t discontinue the iPad 2. Apple just made it cheaper, knocking $100 off the base price and offering the iPad 2 for $399 while the new iPad starts at $499. But it turns out Apple didn’t just lower the price. The company also gave the…
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Apple makes a lot of money selling touchscreen tablets, smartphones, and portable media devices. In fact, the company now makes more money from iOS products than it does from pricey laptop and desktop computers running OS X. So when you look at the latest versions of OS X which offer support for full-screen apps and gesture-based controls, you’d be forgiven…
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Apple tends to come out with a new iPhone every year, so it’s hardly surprising that we’re starting to hear rumors about this year’s model. But the folks at 9 to 5 Mac received a tip that the next iPhone could have a new processor and 1GB of RAM, or twice as much as the iPhone 4S. They also found…
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There have been rumors floating around for ages that Apple is getting ready to release an iPad with a smaller display. That may or may not be true, but Apple blogger John Gruber says he’s heard from multiple sources that Apple is testing a prototype with a 7.85 inch display. Gruber typically has pretty good sources, and doesn’t often comment on rumors…
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The latest Apple iPad went on sale Friday, March 16th. As of today the company says it’s sold 3 million of them, which Apple says makes this the strongest iPad launch yet. That sounds pretty impressive… and it is. But it’s also worth noting that the third generation iPad had been available for pre-order since March 7th. Many of the…
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When Apple unveiled its the third generation iPad earlier this month, the company made the bold claim that the new tablet’s new Apple A5x processor offers 4 times the graphics performance available from NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor, which is one of the fastest chips available for Android phones and tablets. NVIDIA expressed some skepticism at the claim, but only the…
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This morning the latest iPad hit the streets. This afternoon iOS hacker MuscleNerd has posted the first pictures showing a third generation iPad after it’s been jailbroken. He hasn’t yet made any tools available for download and doesn’t know how long it will take to whip the tools into shape so that they can be distributed. But this is confirmation…
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Apple’s third generation iPad will hit stores tomorrow, and the early reviews are in. The new tablet has a 9.7 inch, 2048 x 1536 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, and quad-core graphics. It’s a little thicker and heavier than the iPad 2, but gets the same 10 hours of battery life despite the new CPU, higher resolution display, and the…
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The latest iPad is expected to go on sale in stores on March 16th, but it looks like some folks in Vietnam have gotten an early look. Tinhte.vn forum member Sonlazio posted an unboxing video and some early benchmarks. While there aren’t a lot of surprises, the benchmarks do show that Apple has doubled the amount of RAM used in…
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Now that Apple has told us pretty much everything we wanted to know about the new iPad, the FCC website for the third generation Apple tablet is now live. There aren’t really any surprises at the FCC website, but there are some nice line drawings showing the read of the tablet as well as the precise dimensions. From the back,…
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Apple unveiled a new iPad today with a higher resolution display, a better camera, a new CPU, and support for 4G LTE. But that doesn’t mean Apple is killing off the iPad 2. It’s just dropping the price. The new iPad is available for $499 and up, while the iPad 2 will now be available for $399 and up. Here’s…
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