12
Nov
Nov
Apple Store app update
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Last week Apple released its Apple Store app update. Long awaited support of iOS 6 digital coupon is finally here.
Just in time for Holiday season, Apple released gift cards for Passbook. Soon, users will be able to buy gift cards and email them to loved ones. Gift cards are stored in Passbook and usable in any App Store, iBooks and iTunes. Once used, gifts are shipped in forms of actual printed gift cards.
The gift giving option has not been activated just yet, but we hear Apple will do so soon.
Also part of this Apple Store app update is Siri virtual assistant which will assist you in opening itunes or Apple Store app when you ask for availability or cost.
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10
Nov
Nov
iPad 4 Retina
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iPad 4 launch has been a surprising move by Apple.
Six months ago Apple released new iPad 3 with retina display. It was a milestone upgrade from iPad the second generation. 1024x768 pixel resolution in iPad 2 doubled to 2048x1536 in iPad 3. 512MB of iPad 2 RAM doubled in iPad 3. Browsing speed went from 3G to 4G LTE. Bluetooth connectivity went from 2.1 + EDR to 4.0. A5 chip in iPad 2 got upgraded to A5X and graphics were replaced for PowerVR SGX543MP4 effectively quadrupling the performance. Let's not forget Siri voice control that just took the breaths away.
iPad 4 will not ground you the way iPad 3 did. iPad Mini took the spotlight away, but yes just 6 months after release Read more [...]
5
Nov
Nov
Apple sales stats Q3 2012
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Apple showed less than perfect numbers in this fall quarter. Diminishment in growth is attributed to anticipation of new iPad mini.
Schools and tablet ready consumers decided to wait when iPad mini rumors started pouring in. IDC's research director, Tom Mainelli expects numbers to bounce back up now that iPad mini is shipping. Another reason for Apple's sales decreasing is mini's relatively high starting price of $329.
Apple's domination in world's tablet market was 65 percent in last quarter, but has slipped to 50.4 percent in Q3. Next four tablet makers picked up on these numbers.
Most of the growth is celebrated by Samsung, which sold 5.1 million tablets in third quarter. Read more [...]
12
Oct
Oct
iPad Mini unveiling
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iPad Mini is the hottest topic among Apple followers. Suppliers worried about making deadlines as Apple ordered unprecedented 10 million iPad Mini tablets.
AllthingsD is claiming that iPad Mini will likely be unveiled on an invitation-only event in Apple’s Town Hall Auditorium on October 23rd. This is an unconfirmed rumor, but iPad Mini raising the roof just 3 days before Windows 8 is to be launched seems to be gutsy and genius.
What can we expect from iPad Mini ? 7.85-inch LCD IPS display of 1024x768 pixel resolution. 30-pin connector for Lightning much like in new iPhone 5. The processor is said to be dual-core A9. To keep the costs down Apple may opt in for just WiFi Read more [...]
21
Sep
Sep
New iPod Nano
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Apple's iPod Nano is maturing into its seventh generation, with a new chassis to accomodate a 2.5-inch 432 x 240 pixel resolution display, which translates to a 16:9 aspect ratio, and a Home button nestling at the foot of the screen.
It's a real overhaul of the old design, as the pictures show, more akin to the old 4th- and 5th-gen Nanos. And the sveltest Nano of all, measuring just 5.4mm. The new iPod Nano is offered in any of a glorious spectrum of eight colors - red, yellow, pink, green, purple, blue, silver and black.
All the music and video codecs we've come to expect are supported, plus support for 720p 720p video, and there is FM radio and BlueTooth functionality, and Read more [...]
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