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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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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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Microsoft has been pursuing the notion of a Tablet PC for a decade now, but its efforts have yet to produce a device most consumers want to carry. But that's not to say Microsoft hasn't been trying. Bill Gates first talked about the idea of a Tablet PC at Comdex back in 2000.
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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.
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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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Early adopters who will be among the first to unbox and fire up an
Apple iPad in a couple of months, will have
nearly 140,000 applications readily available from the App Store
right out the gate. That's the approximate number of applications that are currently offered for free or for a fixed fee on the iPhone / iPod Touch App Store, which will soon be known only as the App Store (or under an entirely different moniker, though unlikely). This is, in my opinion at least, one of the key benefits of being one of those early adopters: they won't have to wait for developers to get acquainted with an entirely new SDK first, nor will they have to wait for them to build and get Apple's approval for the apps they want to publish. Just in case you forgot:
more than 3 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store onto devices since its debut. Thriving, the platform is, as Yoda would put it.
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