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Apple Australia just became one of the first international sites to introduce the iPad to its pages. That gives us a pretty good indication of Apple's plans for a global launch: same "late March" ship for Wi-Fi only models and April for 3G models (carrier yet to be announced). Fine, but it's not what we see that has us intrigued so much as what's missing: the
iBookstore and any indication of the iBooks app. This doesn't look like an oversight but rather its purposeful removal from any images or feature lists. Guess we shouldn't be too surprised; going back to the press release we see the following: "iBookstore will be available in the US at launch." Seems Apple meant to say,
only in the US, eh? Rest easy Bezos, the iPad has a long way to go before it's any competition to the Kindle.
[Thanks, Robert S.]
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Posted by on under zune, smooth as butter, fashi, ipod touch, mobile gaming, droid, 28 jan, hd, motorola, nbsp, samsung, palm, game, games |
50 seems to be a pretty trendy number right now, what with
Palm's Pre Plus and Samsung's i8910 HD
both showing off the ability to
run more than 49 concurrent processes. Joining that number party, albeit in a different fashion, is this video demonstrating 50 games running smooth as butter on a Motorola Droid handset. If you thought you had to have a
Zune HD,
iPod touch or one of them
webOS thingies to get your mobile gaming on, maybe this will serve as a competent dissuader. See it after the break.
Continue reading 50 Android games demonstrated in one video -- who says Android can't game?
50 Android games demonstrated in one video -- who says Android can't game? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under brutal light, la tegra, 3gs, ipad, silic, system on a chip, twitter, hubbub, cortex, 28 jan, supposedly, nvidia, mali, architecture, apple, memory |
For some of us, amid all the hubbub about
revolutions and whatnot yesterday, the most significant announcement on hand was
Apple's supposedly custom A4 CPU. Alas, in the cold and brutal light of the morning after, we're hearing that it is in fact a system-on-a-chip driven by a
Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU "identical" to the one found inside
NVIDIA's Tegra 2, while besting the
iPhone 3GS significantly with its 1GHz speed and multicore architecture. The chip is composed of that Cortex barnburner, an integrated memory controller, and the Mali 50-series GPU, making it an all ARM affair -- though we still don't know how much Apple and
PA Semi did in terms of arranging and integrating those components within the silicon. While still not 100 percent confirmed, it would seem there were no revolutions on the iPad's processing front -- just a rebranded bit of well engineered hardware.
Apple's A4 is an ARM-based system-on-a-chip a la Tegra 2? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under physical cues, video debut, keyboard design, hybrid device, th time, naught, magnum, touchscreen, 28 jan, narrator, rim, proto, cousins, curves, blackberry, storms, scoop, operating system, nbsp, intel |
The same cat that
brought us the last Magnum scoop is back again, this time with a short video detailing the differences between RIM's supposed first effort at making a touchscreen / QWERTY hybrid device and its nearest cousins, the
Bold 9000 and 9700. Notably, the narrator points out that the phone shares its keyboard design more closely with the 9000 than the 9700 -- for aficionados, this can be a crucial difference -- and it generally shares its physical cues with the older Bold apart from a move to micro-USB (and the
SurePress screen, of course). Sadly, the proto here lacks an operating system so there's not terribly much to see beyond the hardware itself, but it might all be for naught -- the latest intel suggests that this phone has been supplanted by a mysterious "Dakota" with updated specs, so we'll just have to hang on to our Curves and Storms for a little while longer. Follow the break for the full video.
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RIM's (doomed?) BlackBerry Magnum makes its video debut originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under ui element, iphe, voice calls, acti, weirdness, 28 jan, bluetooth headset, festivities, emulator, ipad, cy, nbsp |
Like the
camera references, this could just be another case of vestigial SDK weirdness -- but for whatever reason, devs have noticed (and
we've been able to reproduce) a "Touch to return to call" bar in the
iPad emulator just like you'd expect to find on an iPhone during a traditional GSM call. It certainly seems like Steve would've bothered to mention during
today's festivities if you could do something crazy like pair up a Bluetooth headset and go to town (and you'd need a voice plan on top of that $29.99 data anyway), so who knows: either Apple's just made every UI element as adaptable as possible regardless of whether it's applicable to a particular device, they're planning a higher-res iPhone down the road, or they're integrating the bar into some
VoIP action. Or... you know, none of the above.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
iPad won't handle GSM voice calls -- or will it? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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