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Apple iPad + Video preview

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:23:23 +0000

Apple iPad First Hands On

It’s substantial but surprisingly light. Easy to grip. Beautiful. Rigid. Starkly designed. The glass is a little rubbery but it could be my sweaty hands. And it’s fasssstttt.

Apple didn’t really sell this point, but it’s the single biggest benefit of the iPad: speed. It feels at least a generation faster than the iPhone 3GS. Lags and waits are gone, and the OS and apps respond just as quickly as you’d hope. Rotating between portrait and landscape modes, especially, is where this new horsepower manifests in the OS.

Build
Imagine, if you will, a super light unibody MacBook Pro that’s smaller, thinner and way, way, way lighter. Or, from a slightly different perspective, think about a bigger iPhone that’s been built with unibody construction. The iPad really does feel like some amalgamation of these two product lines from Apple. And, in the hands, it feels great—not too heavy at all.

The screen looked nice, and it’s able to display even small text crisply. Touch responds like a dream.

But one point of the build seems odd. It’s the Home button. In portrait mode, hitting the Home button is far less natural than on an iPhone because your thumbs naturally rest in the middle of each side of the case (not the bottom). A Kindle-like side Home button may not have been a horrible idea, even if it broke up the stoic minimalism of the case a bit.

iBooks
It’s an optical illusion, but just seeing the depth of pages makes the iBook app feel more like a book than a Kindle ever did for me. The text is sharp, and while the screen is bright, it doesn’t seem to strains the eyes—but time will tell on that.

Keyboard
Typing in portrait is better than anticipated but still a BIT of a stretch for our average-sized hands, which means that letters like F G and H will take a moderate conditioning for some.

Pictures
Pinch, zoom, whatever—like we said, it’s fast—the photo app is faster than iPhoto performs on an aging Core2Duo laptop.

Apps
Apps can play in their native resolution, or be 2x uprezzed for the screen. How does it look? An ATV game we tried actually looked pretty good—limited more by its base polygon count than the scaling process itself. Bottom line: it’s about as elegant solution as Apple could have offered, even if that graphics won’t be razor sharp.

Browsing
Over Wi-Fi, Gizmodo loaded quickly. The 9.7-inch screen is an excellent size for reading the site. You can pinch zoom, but you won’t need to. Of course, on such a pretty web browsing experience, not having Flash makes the big, empty video boxes in the middle of a page is pretty disappointing. Put differently, the fatal flaw of Apple’s mobile browser has never been more apparent.

Apple Tablet

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:08:11 +0000

Overheard: Steve Jobs Says Apple Tablet “Will Be The Most Important Thing I’ve Ever Done.”

TechCrunch reported that Steve Jobs is talking about the new Apple Tablet as his pride and joy. We have never heard this kind of excitement come from Steve before, but it reminds me of Bill Gates when he said the same thing 7 years ago when talking about the PC tablet. It looks like this time everyone has finally caught up with the technology and is ready for the tablet technology. Back when Bill Gates was talking about his PC Tablet the iPhone was not even a concept.

With every major technology company talking about mobile being the way of the future it makes you wonder how integrated the Apple Tablet is going to be. If anyone has sneak peak – please let me know.

iPhone to drop AT&T

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:11:13 +0000

iPhone to drop AT&T

One of our insiders shared some exclusive information on how iPhone is planning to drop the exclusive contract they currently have with AT&T. Apple has come under a lot of pressure from the US government.All the buzz over this has gotten Apple & AT&T to start a blame game. wow – what a shock, it almost feels like 1st grade all over again with all the blame shifting and blame games that these two companies are already starting. And this is before they have made anything official.

All the talk and hype on the internet now (at least in the geek world) is about the big Apple event planned for January 27th. Even though all this is officially speculative our insiders have told us to expect to hear word about this split on Wednesday.

What is our Apple contact saying:

[RUMOR] Our contact at Apple has let us know that AT&T has been a horrible partnership and gives poor customer service ultimately making the Apple brand look worse, also the AT&T network is very unreliable and is unable to handle the iPhone. Apple is also stating that they are under a lot of pressure from the Justice Department, who has brought up concerns they have with the exclusive AT&T and iPhone partnership.
[FACT] The Apple iPhone is very demanding on the current 3G network and will cause issues due to its large data usage. Yes AT&T has been given poor ratings for customer service repeatedly by several different sources, and independent research firms. And the last part of the Apple rumor is also TRUE; AT&T has many reliability issues and has a difficult time keeping up. I personally think that AT&T thought they were better prepared to handle the iPhone then what the AT&T network was capable of.

What is our AT&T contact saying:

[RUMOR] Our contact at AT&T is blaming Apple.. They say that the Apple iPhone is a data waster and uses more resources than it needs to in order to function. Also AT&T is trying to make this nasty split come of as their idea.
[FACT] Yes, the Apple iPhone is a data hog and puts a lot of pressure on the AT&T network, the 3G network is not properly suited to handle the amount of data and the quantity of iPhone users that are currently on just the one network. No, this split was not started by AT&T it was Apple that has repeatedly brought up the partnership struggles in closed session meetings with AT&T. But to try and bounce back from this PR nightmare AT&T has prepared a line of phones that they will be releasing as soon as the Apple / AT&T split is official.

Google phone accepts credit cards with credit card swiper

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:18:45 +0000

Google phone accepts credit cards with credit card swiper

One of the lead engineers for the Google Android Operating System has changed jobs and is now working for a leading edge company that is able to utilize the functionality of the Google Android Operating System to accept credit cards with an awesome gadget / add-on credit card swiper called a “Square”. Square inc has an awesome physical product (the square), but it is the software foundation that caught my attention. The software that runs the square has the ability to integrate photo verification, text or email receipts, manage all your coupon, and gift cards like a Starbucks punch card. @square – I am impressed with this device and also the functionality of the software that runs this. If you get a chance to use this I would recommend it, and I would love to hear your review on the square mobile device for credit card swiping. Let me know

The square device plugs in directly to the audio jack on most smart phones, the device is primarily focused towards Backberry, iPhone, and Android Phones at this time.

Square is backed by Khosla Ventures and a team of angels. Square, Inc. has offices in San Francisco (Product & Engineering), Saint Louis (Operations), and New York City (Risk & Partnerships).

Square inc. Has a new device out called the square, it allows users to swipe a credit card on your phone.

List of the best iPhone app Review sites

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:46:07 +0000

After several weeks of bookmarking iPhone app review sites I finally have converted it into a nice alphabetized list. Below are all the best iPhone app review sites I could find. If you have more please feel free to share. As most of you know I am currently working on the marketing of a new iPhone app called BoxScore Babes. This new iPhone app is amazing, it shows live NFL scores and photos of beautiful women all in the same app, it was the brain-child of NFL star Tony Mandarich.

NFL Scores - BoxScore Babes iPhone app

BoxScore Babes iPhone app

Newest Apple commercial, Windows 7

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:01:06 +0000

Apple does it again with yet another great commercial. Microsoft has a very checkered past with the many versions of Windows and the reputation it has gained from the “Blue Screen of Death”, the often computer crashes, the random system restarts, the vulnerabilities to viruses, shall I go on?

Apple commercials are simple but yet funny and true on so many levels, Enjoy!

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