Posts Tagged "Handhelds"
Video Editing on the iPad
A lot of folks were expecting more of a Minority Report style interface on the iPad, instead of the familiar iPhone like OS we got.
But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. One area that could be very interesting is a video editing application for the iPad. Such a thing already exists on the iPhone, ReelDirector [$7.99 App Store Link] and it works surprisingly well. More after the jump….
Read More...Evidence Points to Tablets Now Being Tested Online By Apple
More in from the folks at Techcrunch. Potentially conclusive evidence that the tablet exists- testing hits of iPhone apps by a device and OS from Cupertino that does not match any existing iPhone or iPhone OS!
Flurry, a mobile app analytics company, has noticed approximately 50 devices in the Cupertino that match the characteristics of Apple’s tablet device. Flurry claims to have reliably placed these devices on Apple’s Cupertino campus, and are confident that they are “observing a group of pre-release tablets in testing.”
This make sense – as the Apple Tablet has to be tested before it is announced this Wednesday, January 27 in San Francisco. Furthermore, Flurry has been an extremely reliable source on analytics data thus far and don’t often break stories unless they are sure they’ve checked their facts.
They’ve noticed that a large number of the apps downloaded were Games (140 total downloads or launches) and the next group was Entertainment, followed by News and Books. Here’s a chart of the usage data:
Read More...More details emerge about iPad tablet
Some more details emerging today about the Apple iPad/Slate/Tablet.
AppleInsider says according to its sources of all the Apple concept drawings artists have come up with, this one is the closest:
Read More...WSJ Makes Apple Tablet Official
Apparently the Wall Street Journal still has journalistic integrity, i.e. they don’t pass on every last unsourced rumor the web is happy to. So when they write up a deeply detailed description of Apple’s tablet plans to be unveiled on January 27th, we’re supposed to take this as gospel. Right? In a nutshell, what’s in store is massive changes to the ways we interact with textbooks, newspapers, magazines and cable TV. Here’s some highlights:
Read More...HarperCollins in Talks With Apple for Enhanced Ebooks
According to the Wall Street Journal, leading publisher HarperCollins is in talks with Apple over enhanced ebooks for its tablet.
HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc.
HarperCollins is expected to set the prices of the e-books, which would have added features, with Apple taking a percentage of sales. Details haven’t been ironed out. More after the jump.
Read More...Apple Gets Official with January 27th Event
Believe it or not, all of the reporting we’ve been doing about Apple’s January 27th press event in San Francisco to purportedly unveil the tablet device has been based on rumor. That’s changed today as Apple has now officially confirmed the event at the Yerba Buena center to “come see our latest creation.” As first reported by Apple Insider’s tablet invitation, it looks like this:
Asus Brings Tasty eBook Reader to Market
Engadget points out this compact, WiMax-enabled e-book charmer from Asus:
ASUS is suddenly all chatty with its plans to enter the e-reader market in 2010. Just yesterday we got word of a 6-inch color (claimed to be OLED by InGear) e-reader from ASUS by the name of DR-570 headed to retail before the year is through. Now we’ve got details of a second ASUS e-reader, dubbed the DR-950 that should arrive sooner. This time we’re looking at a 9-inch Sipix panel with 1,024 x 768 pixel resolution pushing 16-levels of gray just like the Jinke reader unveiled at CES. The touchscreen DR-950 features text-to-speech (based on Svox engine supporting 26 languages), a web browser that works in portrait or landscape modes, a virtual keyboard and handwriting input, a RSS reader, and dictionary (with expandable database) with real-time translation.
Spec-wise, the 222 x 161 x 9-mm / 370-gram reader packs WiFi and HSPA (WiMax is optional) data radios, 3.5-mm headphone jack and stereo speakers, with 4GB of internal memory and SD Card expansion. Supported formats include PDF, TXT, Audible, MP3, and unprotected ePub. Not bad ASUS, not bad. Now let’s see some content partners, eh?
Head over to Engadget for more pictures.
Read More...Video of Apple Tablet in Action
This a simulation of how the Apple Talbet might work. But it looks pretty cool and I wouldn’t doubt it if at least some of this were close to the real deal functionality. Well maybe not the two-handed pinch zooms- that seems like it would be one handed. Anyways- have a look after the jump:
Read More...TUAW- iPhone with Touch-Sensitive Case on the way
TUAW’s Mike Schraam put out a story today with some great links regarding the rumored iPhone 4G model that’s sure to be on the way once the dust from all this tablet stuff settles.
Read More...Bloomberg is the latest outlet to come up with some rumors about the possible new iPhone model coming this year (the iPhone, not the tablet, although doesn’t it seem like the flood of tablet rumors has encouraged all kinds of Apple speculation lately?). They say that the new handset will include a 5 megapixel camera to match Google’s Nexus One, and will also include a touch-sensitive casing, working similarly to the Magic Mouse. That one just seems strange — what would you gesture on the back of the iPhone while you’re using it?
Apple Tablet iPhone On Steroids
Boy Genius Report gives out a few tidbits, calling the Apple Tablet an iPhone on Steroids:
- The tablet’s multi-touch gestures are “out of control.”
- It’s powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU
- It runs on the iPhone kernel.
- The internal model number is K48AP.
- There hasn’t been an updated iPhone OS build because there’s too much tablet-related code/references in the OS and Apple obviously didn’t want that to leak. Oops.
- The tablet is basically an “iPhone on steroids.”
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