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Meet the iPad's A4
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Meet the iPad A4 cortex: In all, the A4 is quite comparable to the other Cortex A8-based SoCs that are coming onto the market, writes Jon Stokes on Ars Technica, except that the A4 has even less hardware. The iPad doesn't have much in the way of I/O, so the A4 itself can do away with the I/O that it doesn't need. In contrast, the typical Cortex A8-based SoC has more I/O hardware than a mobile phone can use, because you never know what customers will need which interface types.
iPad won't work as secondary display: Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the iPad will functionally work as a secondary desktop display out of the box, but David Klein over at The Apple Blog still thinks that the iPad could function as a peripheral, widget-based display through App Store offerings. Cult of Mac has more.
Low numbers of iPads to ship? Apple may have low supplies of the iPad if it goes on sale as planned, according to a note by Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek. He claims that Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) has had an "unspecified production problem" and that Apple might have only 300,000 tablets available by the end of March.
Allegedly, the American company had expected as many as one million iPads for the same period ... Apple has not commented on this.
Latest iPhone gems on iLounge: The loose theme of these Gems is colour – colourful puzzles in Colorbind and Colorbind Lite, irradiated raindrops in the tap-to-pop title Color Storm, and colorful flute playing and crystal gathering in two Nickelodeon kids’ games based on Dora the Explorer and Diego the Animal Rescuer.
Instapaper Pro updated: Marco Arment has released a major update to his popular Instapaper Pro offline reading application.
Instapaper Pro 2.2 adds an in-app browser for opening links and graphical pages and the ability to scroll by page and share selected text or look it up in a dictionary. The update also provides several UI improvements such as partially-read indicators for articles, landscape view for the article list, and the ability to delete items from the archive folder. Version 2.2 also removes the full offline graphical mode, replacing it with a unified and faster text mode that includes in-article images without having to download the entire page. Instapaper Pro is available from the App Store for $6.49 and is a free update for existing users.
(There's also the free Instapaper lite.)
UK iPad price rumours: Apple has yet to reveal UK iPad pricing stating that it will do so nearer the time of release. But Geeky Gadgets has published a tip claiming that iPad pricing will begin at £389 (NZ$836).
In addition to pricing the site states that despite Apple expecting a March release for the iPad in the UK it will more likely be April.
iPad 16GB WiFi – £389 (cNZ$836)
iPad 32GB WiFi – £439 (cNZ943)
iPad 64GB WiFi – £489 (cNZ$1051).
Strange, because I estimated the iPad 16GB WiFi version to actually be at least NZ$840 when it arrives here in three weeks or so ...
Condé Nast's iPad mags revealed: As we move closer to the iPad's release date, more information is becoming available regarding 3rd-party content. Just this week, an internal memo from Condé Nast revealed the list of the first of the magazines that will be initially available for the device.
They are: GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Glamour and The New Yorker.
