Apple’s latest iPad is the first to offer mobile hotspot features, which means that if you have a supported model and a supported data plan, you can turn your iPad into a portable 4G modem for your laptop. All you have to do is turn on the mobile hotspot feature and then you can connect […]
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Apple sells three million new iPads in 4 days
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 […]
Are iPad’s A5x graphics really 4x faster than NVIDIA Tegra 3?
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 2012 iPad has been jailbroken
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 […]
iFixit tears open the iPad 3 to see what makes it tick
The new iPad goes on sale on March 16th… but it’s already March 16th in Australia. So the folks at iFixit picked up an Australian iPad today and promptly started to dissect it to see what the insides look like — and how difficult it would be to repair a broken iPad. The iFixit team […]
iPad review roundup (2012)
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, […]
New iPad has twice the RAM, same clock speed
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 […]
Apple iPad (3rd generation) hits the FCC
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 […]
Apple’s new iPad features retina display, 4G LTE, $499 price tag
Apple’s next iPad will be available on March 16th for $499 and up. Pre-orders open today. So what’s new in the latest iPad? Apple has outfitted the tablet with a higher resolution display, more powerful graphics performance, and support for 4G LTE. HD display The biggest change is the move from a 9.7 inch, 1024 […]
Apple to unveil iPad 3 on March 7th, 2012
Apple is sending out invitations to a March 7th event in San Francisco, where the company is expected to introduce its next-generation iPad. If you had any doubts that this will be an iPad event, a look at the invitation pretty much confirms it. It’s not clear that the photo actually shows the iPad 3 […]