Apple announces new 7.9-inch iPad mini, available Nov. 2
Today Apple unveiled details of its new iPad mini, at 7.9 inches, small enough to hold in one hand. It’s an incredibly 7.2-millimeter thin, weighs half as much as any iPad and battery life reaches 10 hours. The tablet will cost $329 minimum.
At the California Theatre in sunny San Jose, Apple revealed the specs of its new iPad mini tablet, available for pre-order Oct. 26.
What can you do with the iPad mini? Hold it in one hand first of all, said Philip W. Schiller, the senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple. As thin as a pencil, the iPad mini is similar to the Nexus 7 in terms of size and look. It weighs .68 pounds and boasts 10 hour of battery life.The new tablet features the A5 chip, HD-quality FaceTime camera, a 5-megapixel backside camera, and 802.11N WiFi.
The Wi-Fi version will cost $329 (16GB).Wi-Fi versions of the iPad mini will ship first on Nov. 2 to select countries, and the cellular+Wi-Fi version will be available worldwide two weeks later.
Also, the company announced that the iPad would enjoy an update. The new full-sized iPad will now come with a Lightning port. A6X and expanded LTE will be added to the iPad as well. Schiller said the A6X doubles the performance compared to the previous generation, and it’s priced at $499 for the 16GB version.
Apple wasn’t done. The company revealed details of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, with “pixels so small that at normal viewing distance, your eye can’t tell the difference,” Schiller said.
The press release states: “At 227 pixels per inch, the Retina display’s pixel density is so high the human eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels at a normal viewing distance, so images look sharp and text looks like it does on the printed page.
It boasts a 75 percent of reduced reflection than the previous MacBook Pro. It offers seven hours of battery life, Schiller said. It’s available today and the 2.5 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor version with 128GB of flash storage is priced at $1,699, he added.Then CEO Tim Cook discussed the new iMac, both the 21.5-incher and the 27-inch version. Featuring an incredible 5 mm thin screen, the computer is 80 percent lighter than its predecessor. It boasts a FaceTime HD Camera, dual microphones, over 300 nits of brightness and a new drive called Fusion Drive (128GB) that automatically places your most popular apps in the faster Flash drive.
The 21-inch iMac, at 2.7GHz processing power, is available in November and will cost $1,299. The 27-inch version, at 2.9GHz, will hit shelves in December and will set you back $1,799.
This article originally appeared in Digital Journal [Link]
Apple unveils new MacBook Pro with Retina display
Apple revealed details of its next-generation MacBook Pro featuring Retina display technology. It’s also being called the lightest MacBook Pro ever made and is available today.
At the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller took to the stage to declare this MacBook Pro the most beautiful computer Apple has ever made. Just .71 inches thin, the laptop weighs 4lbs and features a Retina display, a first for a notebook computer, TechCrunch notes.
Retina displays are most commonly found on Apple’s iPhones and iPods. Apple promotes Retina display by says itss pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels. “Which means text in books, web pages, and email is crisp at any size. Images in games, movies, and photos pop off the screen. And everything is sharper.”
The MacBook Pro’s 15.4-inch Retina display features “the highest resolution” of any notebook on the market, thanks to its 220 pixels per inch.Aside from the display, CNET writes, Apple’s new MacBook Pro comes with “quad-core processors, up to 2.7GHz. In addition, the device can support up to 16GB of 1,600MHz RAM. On the storage side, it can support up to 768GB of Flash storage and survive 7 hours on a single charge.”
Other features worth noting: a FaceTime HD 720p camera, dual microphones (Schiller said they are the best stereo speakers Apple has ever put into a notebook), a backlit keyboard, Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, and 802.11n Wi-Fi.
The MacBook Pro with the Retina display doesn’t come cheap, priced at $2,199 for 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM.
TechCrunch writes this will be the first MacBook Pro without an optical drive.
Apple announced it has updated the apps in OS X to take advantage of the new Retina display. “Those updated include Mail, Safari, iMovie and iPhoto. Professional apps, including Aperture and Final Cut Pro, have also been updated,” Appleinsider adds.
Apple announces new iPad with 4G LTE, Retina Display, Siri
Today Apple announced the next-generation iPad, available on March 16. Its features include 4G LTE access, Siri, a quad-core processor, and a 2048 x 1536 display, equalling 3.1 million pixels.
Apple announced that the new iPad will include access to the high-speed 4G LTE network and will feature voice dictation using the Siri tool found on the new iPhone 4S. The starting price for the unit begins at $499.
At the California event live-blogged by hundreds of news sites, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke about Apple heading into the post-PC future, saying “Our post PC devices made up 76% of our revenues.”
He added Apple sold millions of iOS devices in one quarter, specifically stating they sold “an astonishing 315 million devices through last year, 62 million in Q4 2011.”Cook said Apple sold 15.4 million iPads in the last quarter alone. More than 200,000 apps have been built for the iPad, he added.
“Everyone’s been wondering, who will come out with a product that’s more amazing than the iPad 2?” Cook said, and paused, then said, “We are!”
Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller described the new iPad, first announcing a new retina display at 264ppi. “For the first time an iPad has a higher resolution than this entire display behind you,” he said, pointing to the massive screen on stage. “That’s a fun challenge.”
The display sports 2048 x 1536, equally 3.1 million pixels. “The most ever in a mobile device,” Schiller pointed out. The saturation is 44 per cent greater compared to the iPad 2.
The device also includes the quad-core A5X processor, Schiller said.
The new iSight camera on this iPad features a 5-megapixel backside illuminated sensor on the back, a 5-element lens, IR filter, and auto-focus and auto-exposure tools. The camera also lets you do some 1080p video recording, a feature many observers expected.
Then Schiller introduced the voice dictation add-on. “The iPad, like all great iOS devices, has a great keyboard and now you’ll see there’s a new key on the bottom: a microphone.” Instead of typing, you can tap the microphone icon on the keyboard, then say what you want to say and the device listens. Tap “done,” and iPad converts your words into text. Dictation also works with third-party apps.
He also announced this iPad will offer 4G LTE service, a highly anticipated feature. The iPad 2 zipped along at 3.1Mbps on EV-DO, 7.2 on HSPA, Schiller noted, but the latest tablet will access the Web at 21Mbps HSPA+ and DC-HSDPA at 42Mbps, with LTE triumphing at 73Mbps. LTE partners in North America include Verizon, Rogers, Bell, Telus and AT&T.
Schiller said the new iPad delivers the same as the iPad 2 in battery life – 10 hours of battery life, clocking around 9 hours on 4G. Size-wise, it comes in at 9.4mm thin, weighing 1.4lbs.
The new iPad will cost $499 for 16GB, 32GB is $599 and 64GB for $699. If you want a 4G unit, it will cost $629, $729 and $829 respectively. It will be available worldwide on March 16 but Apple is taking pre-orders now.
This article originally appeared on Digital Journal [Link]
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Samsung wants iPhone 4S banned in France and Italy
by Henry Cole (Guest Contributor/Digital Journalist)
Samsung is seeking an injunction to ban Apple’s new iPhone 4S in France and Italy, due to Apple’s use of Samsung-patented technologies in the phone, the company claims.
An official Samsung press release earlier today claims Apple have infringed two Samsung patents related specifically to Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) standards for 3G mobile phones, a technology which Samsung believes is essential to the functioning of modern phones.
Apple and Samsung have quite a history when it comes to patent wars, starting with Apple’s claim earlier this year regarding the similarity of the design of Samsung’s Galaxy range of phones and tablets to that of Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
Samsung announced recently that they believe it’s time for them to take a tougher stance in the patent wars, and they seem to be living up to this claim, as their press release states “Apple has continued to flagrantly violate our intellectual property rights and free ride on our technology. We believe it is now necessary to take legal action to protect our innovation.”
Samsung also claims that they will be looking to file more preliminary injunctions in other countries, after “further review.”
This article originally appeared on Digital Journal [Link]
Report: Apple will announce iPhone 5 details on Oct. 4
Apple’s next event on October 4 will reportedly unveil the iPhone 5 to the world, according to sources close to tech news site All Things D. The event is also momentous for being CEO Tim Cook’s first major product introduction.
As All Things D reports, their sources said “the Oct. 4 date has been selected by the company to showcase the iPhone 5.” Details of Apple’s smartphone will be revealed on that day and it will be available to purchase several weeks later.
Previous media reports indicated October as the month for the iPhone 5 release.
Newly appointed CEO Tim Cook is slated to make his first big product introduction on Oct. 4, an honour previously held by Steve Jobs, who stepped down as CEO last month.
All Things D writes on the new CEO’s role: “Still, the pressure will be on Cook to turn in a good performance at the event, especially after what has so far been a very smooth leadership transition at Apple.”
Rumours have circulated over what the new iPhone 5 will include. Nick Bilton of the New York Times writes the next iPhone may be updated with an eight-megapixel camera made by Sony. Also, it will house a powerful A5 dual-core processor currently found in the iPad.Analyst Mark Moskowitz said he expects the new iPhone 5 to offer “1GB of RAM to increase memory access times,” according to AppleInsider.
This article was originally published on Digital Journal [Link]
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