The first third-generation iPads are in the hands of the tech geeks, and the benchmarks are flying. Back on March 8, TUAW reported that NVIDIA was not happy with Apple’s claim that the A5X system-on-a-chip that powers the new iPad would put the NVIDIA Tegra 3 to shame. Australian tech blogger Ritchie has put the [...]
“The new iPad has been jailbroken-” said Suzanne, with a merry laugh. “Why! what a droll idea! What is this Jailbreak, Monsieur-” She looked at Sir Andrew with eager curiosity. The young man’s face had become almost transfigured. His eyes shone with enthusiasm; hero-worship, love, admiration for his full root access seemed literally to glow [...]
Do you wonder how many new iPads will be lovingly opened and used to browse the Internet today- To find the answer, head to Chitika’s website where you will find a tracking page set up for the third generation iPad. As noted by BGR, the tracker looks for both the user agent string of the [...]
When it comes to forecasting the next big thing, we turn to our secret weapon: the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today’s topic is trade-ins (all prices quoted are as of this writing). With Amazon offering US7 for a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad versus Gazelle’s [...]
Over at the MacRumors forums, reader jsnuff1 has confirmed that the new Verizon iPad works with AT&T’s 3G network. The Verizon iPad has a built-in GSM SIM slot and supports connections on the same 850/900/1800/1900 MHz bands as the AT&T unit. What jsnuff1 did was to slot in an iPhone microSIM, using the standard AT&T [...]
J.D. Power and Associates is a well-known provider of customer satisfaction survey data, often known for providing those shiny award statues to automobile manufacturers. Well, they also do surveys of smartphone and traditional mobile phone customers, and for the seventh year in a row, Apple is at the top of the list for customer satisfaction. [...]
M.I.C. Gadget has the inside details (and lots of photos) on the Hong Kong launch of the iPad. Unlike the US, UK and other countries which sold on a first-come, first-served basis, Hong Kong was selling the iPad using a reservation system. Customers must sign up for an iPad the night before and wait for [...]
Zuma’s Revenge is a nice game from PopCap. It’s a colorful, casual, action/puzzle title, with a simple mechanic that’s easy to understand. But don’t get too comfortable, as Zuma’s Revenge gets difficult quickly. It’s existed as a PC title for a while, and is finally ready for iOS. Shooting little colored balls into each other [...]
Image: Shutterstock.com I keep squinting at my new iPad, trying to see the pixels, but no dice. Luckily, Ignore the Code rounded up some microscope imagery of the new iPad’s screen and compared them to other devices. Something that surprised me was the quality of the PlayBook’s screen. But the density of the Retina Display [...]
The Mannheim Court in Germany has delayed Apple’s second slide-to-unlock case against Samsung, says FOSS Patents. During this pause in proceedings, the German Patent and Trademark Office is examining the validity of Apple’s slide-to-unlock utility model. A utility model is a quickly-approved patent that’s not presumed by the court to be valid because it hasn’t [...]
Happy iPad day, boys and girls! Congratulations on your new 3rd generation baby — and possibly on your new 1080p Apple TV. If your gadget household just grew in size — or if you’re trying to decide whether to pull the trigger on buying some new tech — come join the discussion in our comments. [...]
Anandtech has excellent, in-depth articles about electornics hardware. The site doesn’t disappoint with its latest analysis of the iPad breakdown from iFixit. They point out subtle differences between the iPad 2 and the iPad 3 including Apple’s possible move to a flip-chip design with the A5X, which allows for better removal of heat. If you’re [...]
It’s iPad day and many of you are looking for the best Retina-capable apps to install on your new Apple tablet. Apple’s got you covered with a section of the iTunes app store dedicated to apps updated to support the iPad’s new retina display. Apple’s list will get you started, but it isn’t exhaustive and [...]
Voice Brief for iPhone (free for a limited time) is a text-to-voice utility that reads information to you. It lets you sit back and listen as your iPhone reads calendar events, weather information, RSS and more aloud. The latest version, 1.81, is a big improvement over its predecessor. I looked at Voice Brief about a [...]
The wave of happy new iPad owners is rolling towards US shores, as the 8 am local on-sale time has already hit the other side of the world; heavy traffic and brisk sales were reported in Sydney, Hong Kong and elsewhere. For those of us waiting in line overnight outside Apple Stores to pick up [...]
Randy Nelson is a former colleague of mine over at Joystiq, and he stepped away from our gaming-focused sister site last year to follow his own path. Part of that path includes a new gaming magazine project called PXL, which Nelson posted on Kickstarter back in January. With a humble budget of ,500, the project [...]
Bitter Sam is an interesting title, not necessarily because of its mechanics (it’s basically a tilting avoidance title), but just because it’s so unapologetically quirky. You play as a little kid named Sam, who swings back and forth on a rope as he’s systematically lowered deeper and deeper into more and more dangerous levels. It’s [...]
In a bit of a surprise move, the British Broadcasting Corporation announced it was planning an iTunes-style downloading service that would allow viewers to get recent or archived broadcasts from a BBC online store for a fee. Reuters reports the software, code named Project Barcelona, would allow viewers to buy BBC programming for what was [...]
Former TUAW contributor Dan Pourhadi has become quite the iOS developer, and his OnCue app (US Former TUAW contributor Dan Pourhadi has become quite the iOS developer, and his OnCue app (US$2.99) keeps getting more features and popularity with every revision. The app was updated to version 5.01 this week, and has been burning up [...]
Throwboy’s got a new pillow coming out soon, and as you can see above, it’s in the shape of a plush Steve Jobs. I don’t know — some of you might say this is too soon after the late, great CEO’s passage last October, but we certainly wouldn’t have had a problem celebrating Steve in [...]
Skyfire is among the most popular third-party browser apps in the App Store, bringing quite a few solid browsing features that mobile Safari doesn’t have to the iPhone and the iPad. And here’s yet another one: The latest update to Skyfire adds account switching capabilities, so multiple users on one device can have their bookmarks, [...]
I0n1c posted up a few images to his Twitter account that supposedly show a jailbroken iPad 2 running iOS 5.1. This is only a proof concept that suggests the individuals working on the A5 jailbreak for iOS 5.1 are making progress. This would be good news for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S owners, who had [...]
TUAW has gotten word that protestors are planning at assemble at some Apple Stores in Washington, DC’s Georgetown, New York City, and San Francisco this Friday, presumably in anticipation of the new iPad’s release. These campaigns are being run from Change.org by Mark Shields, who sounds reasonable in this video from CNN. Shields says he’s [...]
Dear Aunt TUAW, I am a college professor who has all my class prep work stored on USB drives. How may I transfer all these Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to my iPad- I have the new updates for Numbers, Pages, and Keynote on my iPad 2. Please help an overworked teacher do a better [...]
Small businesses that are using PayPal to process credit cards but considering the Square service are in luck — PayPal today unveiled a competitor to Square called “PayPal Here”. Like Square, the new service comes with a free card reader dongle. In this case, the card reader has been designed with a stabilizing “wing” that [...]
Several of the reviews of the new iPad were critical of apps that hadn’t yet been updated for the ultra-sharp Retina display. For example, New York Times tech pundit David Pogue wrote that “After enjoying the freakishly sharp text in Mail and Safari, you’ll be disappointed in the relatively crude type in, for example, the [...]
iFixit got its hands on a third generation iPad as soon as it went on sale in Australia today. As they boasted on Twitter, “the first legit-purchased, legit-owned iPad 3 is now also the first legit-opened iPad… in the world.” The iPad 2 and the iPad 3 have different displays and the teardown analysis suggests [...]
Want to get both a new iPad and an iPhone- If so, it’s time to move to the UK and take advantage of a new bundle offer that Orange UK has come up with. With the offer, customers buy an iPhone and associated contract and get the iPad thrown in for free. For example, a [...]
Wolfram Alpha app (USWolfram Alpha app (US$2.99) fans should be rejoicing today. Version 1.4 of the incredibly powerful analytics app is available and adds a number of new features, including image analysis and manipulation. Among the new goodies in Wolfram Alpha 1.4 are a new look for weather queries and the ability to search for [...]
To avoid the near riot that rocked the iPhone 4S launch in China, Apple is telling Hong Kong iPad scalpers that lines are not allowed, says a report from The Next Web. Apple’s note confirms that it won’t be selling the iPad on a first-come, first-served basis in Hong Kong this Friday. Instead, Apple will [...]
Many of my fellow gamers look down on the “set-it-and-forget-it” style of social freemium games, but I have a soft spot in my heart for them. For me, the genre’s appeal started with We Rule a few years ago, and continued with Battle Nations and Dragonvale. There’s a definite addictiveness and appeal to real-time based [...]
Tomorrow, Apple is launching the new iPad and the new Apple TV. Though the iPad orders have a “future delivery requested” note and likely won’t arrive until tomorrow, several users may receive their new Apple TV today, according to MacRumors report. The Apple TV is a welcome update for users with 1080P HDTVs who want [...]
Reviews for the new iPad went live last night. While most reviewers were pleased with the tablet’s LTE performance, there was one glaring omission. According to The Verge, the new iPad does not support FaceTime over LTE. You can turn on the iPad’s WiFi hotspot and fire up FaceTime on the iPhone for video chat [...]
Apple’s stock soared on Wednesday and now it is poised to cross the US0 mark. As noted by CNN Money, the stock hit 0 once and has fallen back down to 8 at the writing of this post. With strong iPad sales expected tomorrow, it’s highly likely the price will go over 0 and stay [...]
If you’re looking for another outlet to offload an iPad 2, then you should check out Apple’s reuse and recycling program. The program now accepts the iPad 2 and will give you an Apple Gift Card if your tablet is still operational. It’ll also take broken devices that would normally land in the refuse pile. [...]
After a long wait, Sparrow for iOS made its debut in the App Store on Wednesday. Similar to the desktop version, the iOS mail client promises to provide you with an efficient and pleasant mailing experience, and the app mostly delivers on this promise. Sparrow supports Gmail, iCloud and IMAP, but not POP email accounts. [...]
We’ve posted before about Hubworks, a company based in Idaho that develops consumer-facing solutions for ordering food and interacting with servers at restaurants via iPads. Most of Apple’s sales are directly to consumers, but Hubworks is just one company of many that’s getting more involved in business-to-business sales of Apple products. These companies are the [...]
Apple has posted a trademark to cover the “Configurator” app that arrived in Software Update last week. The app allows users to configure (surprise) various iOS devices all connected to one computer or network, easily updating apps and the operating system, and even installing wallpapers or other information to a device’s lock screen. The trademark [...]
Our eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that the yellow sticky note of doom has appeared, and the Apple Store is down for maintenance. With one day remaining until the launch of the third generation of the iPad and Apple TV, it’s a good bet that these updates pertain to them. What do you think it is- [...]
March 16 is the day the iPad will go on sale and if you are like us here at TUAW, you can’t wait for Friday to arrive. To help pass the time, you can check out all the new reviews from our fellow journalists who got an early look at Apple’s tablet device. Follow the [...]
We’ve gone through a few permutations in our commenting systems over the years, but I’m rather pleased to announce our latest partnership with Livefyre, what I consider to be one of the best commenting platforms out there. Livefyre features include the ability to sign in using a variety of social logins, and to easily comment [...]
If you haven’t noticed, Apple’s stock was soaring today. It closed at US9.58, another all-time high, and is up +21.48 for the day. As financial analysts pour over these numbers, they are discovering some amazing trivia about this off-the-charts growth. Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty may have kicked off this climb when, as Philip Elmer-DeWitt of [...]
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