Testers Wanted for Apple iPad!
- Filed under: Apple
- Date: Feb 4,2010
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By now you’ve probably read more on Apple’s iPad then you ever dreamed possible. In the last few days we’ve covered a lot of angles on the tablet and compiled a lot of data.
Still, we felt that we hadn’t given you clear hands-on impressions and collected the myriad details about the device in one, easy-to-reach place.
So we’ve decided to bundle all of that info into a single feature, joining our first-hand encounters with the iPad together with all of the data and details you should be aware of — including specs, plans, release schedules, pics, and video. So read on for everything we know (so far) about Cupertino’s first tablet! Read the rest of this entry »
8 Things That Suck About the iPad
- Filed under: Apple
- Date: Jan 28,2010
A lot of people are psyched about the iPad. Not me! My god, am I underwhelmed by it.
It has some absolutely backbreaking failures that will make buying one the last thing I would want to do. Read the rest of this entry »
iPad can run all iPhone apps unmodified, new iPhone SDK out today lets developers tweak apps for iPad use
- Filed under: Apple
- Date: Jan 27,2010
It looks like a “big iPhone,” and apparently it acts like one too: the iPad can run traditional iPhone apps completely unmodified, and can even zoom them up to full screen.
Additionally, a new iPhone SDK is out today to allow developers to tweak their apps for the specifics of the iPad. Of course, Apple has rebuilt its apps from the ground up for the iPad, and developers can do the same with the SDK.
Apple iPad tech specs: rumor vs. reality scorecardApple iPad tech specs: rumor vs. reality scorecard
- Filed under: Apple
- Date: Jan 27,2010
Remember that history of Apple tablet rumors we concocted for you just the other day? Well, we’re here to take score now, folks. As you can see from the handy (and magical) chart below, Taiwan Economic News came pretty close to nailing the iPad’s specs back September: built-in HSDPA, custom P.A.
Semi system on a chip (with the fancy new name Apple A4), 9.6-inch size, February unveiling, and hey — they were pretty close on that $799 – $999 pricing too. And while iLounge was wrong about some things, they certainly hit this one out of the park: “It’s a big iPhone, but it’s not a big iPhone.” We’re going to let you dig into the chart here for yourselves to see who got what right — and who was terribly, terribly wrong.
Here are just a few of the no-shows today, however — no camera, no multitasking, no phone, no Verizon, no iPhone OS 4.0, and no Flash anywhere to be seen. There were also no MacBook Pro spec bumps in sight, and no iLife to be found. Well, let’s just try to be happy with what we did get, okay? The chart is after the break.
BookBook Hardback Leather Case Has You Covered
- Filed under: Laptops
- Date: Jan 22,2010
The TwelveSouth BookBook is what we think of a bit of a design reversal: instead of a technological move toward digitizing the book format into an electronic device, the BookBook hides yours MacBook or MacBook Pro in the wonderfully scholarly disguise of an old fashioned book (yay, printed matter), operating as both a carrying case and protective measure for your laptop.
The $79.99 BookBook is available in two colours, Classic Black or Vibrant Red, both finished in hardback leather case sized to fit the MacBook and MacBook Pro.
Definitely sure to be a conversation starter when you open that vintage tome to reveal newfangled tech within, likely to win points with luddites and bibliophiles alike for the charming surprise. Just be sure not to put it away into the stacks!
We always suspected the iPhone 3GS was capable of 1080p HD video playback, and now we’ve got proof.
Although Apple lists the iPhone 3Gs’s max video playback res at just 640×480, iLounge linked to Chinese forum post claiming that the 3GS could do 30Mbps 1080p playback earlier today — and when we saw that the only thing we needed to do to test it out was download the free FileAid app, well, you know how we’ve just spent the last 20 minutes.
We tested out a bunch of HD trailers from Apple’s QuickTime trailer site, some videos we shot with a Lumix DMC-GH1 and some other random videos with general success, but there were some major hiccups: high bitrate 720p video off the GH1 stuttered during playback, and loading the Avatar trailer consistently crashed the phone’s audio driver until we restarted. Read the rest of this entry »
HTC’s Chief Innovator: ‘The iPhone is Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed’
- Filed under: Personal Gadgets
- Date: Jul 14,2009
In an interview with T3, HTC’s Chief Innovation Officer Horace Luke justifies the impressive Teflon coating on the HTC Hero by saying that the iPhone is slippery as hell. The obvious solution, of course, is seedless watermelons.
He also says that there are three “classes” of Android phone. Obviously HTC isn’t happy with Android as is, and will skin it like they do with Windows mobile. Read the rest of this entry »
1 Billion Apps Later – Here Are Some of Our Favorites
- Filed under: Apple
- Date: Apr 24,2009
Today, Apple announced that its customers have now downloaded a whopping one billion applications from its App Store.
Quite a few of us have iPhones, so we thought that this would be a good time to feature some of our favorite apps.
We download and test a lot of iPhone apps, but here are the ones that have stood the test of time for us.
The App Store is now home to over 35,000 applications, so this is obviously only a small selection of applications, but these are the apps that we don’t hesitate to recommend to our friends.
We couldn’t get feedback from everybody on the RWW team (and our BlackBerry users weren’t very forthcoming with suggestions either), but here are the recommendations from Richard MacManus (R), Marshall Kirkpatrick (M), Frederic Lardinois (F), and Phil Glockner (P). Read the rest of this entry »
When the App Store launched, there were a handful of Twitter apps for the iPhone. Now there’s ten zillion. We’ve read thousands of tweets on every Twitter app, so here are the best, and worst.
The Quicklist
• Best Overall: Tweetie
• Best Paid: Tweetie
• Best Free: Twitterfon
• Most Powerful: Twittelator Pro
• Best Tweet-Only: Tweeter
• Worst Twitter App Ever in the History of Twitter Ever: Tweetion
• Creepiest: Twittervision Read the rest of this entry »
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