We knew iPad pre-orders were starting tomorrow, but now we know exactly when all you lovable crazies have to stumble out of bed and transmit your credit card numbers to Steve’s brain: 8:30AM ET, or 5:30AM on the West Coast. We generally recommend a bed shaker alarm clock, but hey, let’s not pretend we haven’t all turned a few long nights into tomorrow with our old friends Jackie D and Mistakes. See you on the other side, chochachos.
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Need a bit more evidence that the e-book download business is a whole lot different than the music download business? Then look no further than Barnes & Noble, which has just announced that it plans to make its B&N eReader app available for the Apple iPad “around the time” of the device’s launch. Details are otherwise a bit light, but the app will be free, and is apparently “designed specifically” for the iPad, giving you access to all of the books, magazines and newspapers available in Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore. Could a Kindle app be far behind?
Barnes & Noble promises B&N eReader app for iPad near launch originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The mad scientists at Google Labs have unleashed their latest concoction: Google Reader Play, a new way to look at your feeds one Google-suggested site at a time. It’s actually pretty neat! And would be perfect for the iPad. More »
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It only came at the tail end of an announcement of a new New York metro section for The Wall Street Journal, but Rupert Murdoch has finally confirmed that the paper will indeed be heading to the iPad. The really interesting bit, however, is that not only is the company now being allowed to work on an iPad, but that Murdoch says it’s kept “under padlock and key,” and that “the key is turned by Apple every night” — a bit of hyperbole, maybe, but then again, maybe not. In other newspapers-going-digital news, Murdoch also said that the WSJ would be heading to half a dozen or more other devices within a year, although he didn’t name any specific devices.
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pa rel=”lytebox” href=”http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/a4-apple-chip-top-1.jpg”img src=”http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_a4-apple-chip-top-1.jpg” class=”left image500″ width=”500″ //aThere’s a lot of speculation about what’s inside the A4, Apple’s custom and ultra-power-efficient chip that powers the iPad. Nobody knows for sure because, like all their products, it’s ia seeeeeecret/i. Until now./p
pAccording to Jon Stokes’ well-trusted sources, there is ino/i a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5293270/cortex-a9-arms-multi+core-mobile-cpus”Cortex A9 dual-core/a inside Apple’s A4, but just a single Cortex A8 and a PowerVR SGX GPU. According to Jon, it’s probable that Apple has taken out a lot of the communication, image, and video blocks that the Cortex A8 uses, making it an extremely lean and efficient processor./p
pHe also says that the people from a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5466995/apples-pa-semi-might-notve-designed-the-ipads-a4-chip”PA Semi/amdash;which a href=”http://gizmodo.com/382929/apple-buys-itself-a-little-chip-company-known-for-super-efficient-processors”Apple acquired/a in 2008mdash;are probably building a custom ARM-based core for future products./p
pDo you have to care about this? No. As Jon says, the important thing about the iPad is not its specs and how many polygons it can push. That doesn’t matter to normal consumers, that just matters to feature-list-obsessed geeks. What would be important for consumers is that the iPad provides an smooth experience, a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5452501/the-apple-tablet-interface-must-be-like-this”using a user interface different from standard computing/a. [a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/02/meet-the-a4-the-ipads-brain-not-quite-ready.ars"Ars Technica/a]/pbr clear=”both” style=”clear: both;”/
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It would seem like we’ve recalled our editor from Shenzhen a little prematurely. The land of Yao has gone and answered all the iPad’s critics in resounding style: TESO’s 10-inch clone tablet features a full-blown Windows 7 install (check), 1024×600 capacitive touchscreen display (check), HDMI output (check), a 1.66GHz Atom N450 (vroom vroom!), 1GB of DDR2 RAM, GPS, 3G, and a 3,000mAh battery. Yep, it’s a netbook sans the keyboard, and it might weigh 1.2kg while stretching to a portly 2cm thickness, but are you really gonna let a few well-rounded edges get in the way of experiencing a grown-up desktop OS on that tablet you so desperately need? Couple more pics await after the break.
Update: 9to5Mac has alerted us to the fact that this clone seems to be sporting the same front plate as the one purported to belong to the iPad in the days before its release. Good to know all the engineering that went into inflating the iPhone’s bezel up to 10 inches didn’t go to waste.
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_tablet_printingpress_2.jpg” class=”left image500″ width=”500″ /Every man and his dog is aware that a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5456446/nyt-conde-nast-working-on-large+screen-iphone-apps-for-the-tablet”Condé Nast has been working on iPad magazine apps/a for their popular titles such as Wired and GQ, but apparently we’ll see GQ’s April issue available (presumably) this month./p
pa href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01conde.html?ref=technology”According to the NY Times/a, they’re expected to announce details concerning their internally-developed iPad magazines today, via a company-wide memo. The info won’t be kept on lock-down I’m sure, so by the end of the day we should have more firm detailsmdash;like just how much Condé Nast will be charging, and whether subscribers will get free access to the iPad version of the mags./p
pGQ, which a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5386037/conde-nast-thinks-youll-buy-mags-as-iphone-apps-3-a-piece”already has a popular iPhone app/a, will be the first title available to the public, with a class=”autolink” title=”Click here to read more posts tagged #vanityfair” href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/vanityfair/”Vanity Fair/a and Wired’s June issues available (I’m guessing) in May, and then a class=”autolink” title=”Click here to read more posts tagged #thenewyorker” href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/thenewyorker/”The New Yorker/a and Glamour sometime in summer, all sold through iTunes. Wired, being the tome of internet-savvy readers, will also be up for grabs via “non-iTunes formats.” [a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01conde.html?ref=technology"NY Times/a]/pbr clear=”both” style=”clear: both;”/
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pThe technology described in the patent, dug up by the diligent folks at a href=”http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/02/cool-new-finger-swiping-camera-controls-coming-to-iphone-ipad.html”Patently Apple/a, would allow an iPhone user to fast forward and rewind through voicemails, navigate web pages, or scroll through contact lists and iTunes simply by swiping one finger against the iPhone’s camera./p
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pThe patent was originally filed in Q3 of 2008, which may have left just enough time for Apple to have implemented the tech by this summer. Let’s hope so… this is one of those patents that actually seems as emfunctional/em as it does cool. [a href="http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/02/cool-new-finger-swiping-camera-controls-coming-to-iphone-ipad.html"Patently Apple/a]/pbr clear=”both” style=”clear: both;”/
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So there’s no question that the
iPad has generated plenty of interest and debate, but the big question remaining is how that will translate into actual sales. According to a new RBC / ChangeWave survey, however, it seems that the iPad is at least on track to do slightly better than the iPhone did, at least initially… maybe. To be a bit more specific, the survey found that of the 3,200 respondents, 13% were either somewhat likely or very likely to buy an iPad, compared to 9% who said the same thing about the iPhone way back in April, 2007. Of course, that says little about the potential long-term success of the iPad, and there’s also the small issue of the iPhone already existing, which no doubt factors considerably into anyone’s potential iPad purchase. Not surprisingly, RBC also says that the iPad relatively low price is a significant factor, and adds that only 8% of respondents were unwilling to pay Apple’s prices for the iPad, compared to hefty 28% that said the initial iPhone prices were out of the question for them.
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The latest iPad/iPhone SDK not only makes it easier for developers to build universal iPad/iPhone apps, but it also appears to have support for a front-facing camera, zoom, camera flash, and video conferencing. Oh, and some snazzy accept/decline buttons.
Keep in mind that the iPad SDK is the same as the iPhone SDK at this time, so we can’t really know which sections of the framework are intended for which device. Not to mention that Apple sometimes leaves some stray test conditions in the code and those may never make it into a final OS.
In other words? Let’s not get too excited here. [MacRumors]
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