Category: Apple

This week, ION is unveiling a pair of new iCade products at CES, streams the original nostalgic tablet dock, and expands its tactile toggles to iPhone and iPod touch owners. The iCade Core recreates the original rigs control setup, Bluetooth connectivity, and pass through charging cable, but kills the cabinet motif in favor of landscape support. There is no word yet and pricing, ION says it should launch sometime in 2012. The new iCade Mobile, is penned for Q2 launch this year; it will cost you back $100 and score your iPod Touch / iPhone four shoulder buttons and classic D-Pad. The gamepad dock also swivels your device into landscape and portrait modes. For more details read on the press release.

With a new promotion begins on January 13th, the nations second largest mobile carrier will offer latest versions of 16GB and 32GB Apple 4S iPhones free on-contract. To score the high-end model the consumers must sign a three year agreement with a minimum monthly cost of 286 yuan (approximately $45). Those looking to avoid the commitment can pick up the 16GB versions with a two year contract on the minimum monthly cost of 386 yuan (approximately $61).

Apple is planning to put a quad-core A6 chip inside its next generation iPhone or iPad and that is not a confirmation from Apple or any reliable source. What it does indicate is that Apple may be testing iOS support for quad-core CPUs. 9to5 Mac has dug up the images from iOS 5.1 beta, details the supported number of cores. In that a single-core A4 is referred to as /cores/core.0 while dual-core A5s are /cores/core.1. Now a new listing shows, /cores/core.3, is popping up, if you start counting it with zero, indicating the CPU is packing four cores. What they are trying to say is Apple may not be running test on hardware yet, but they may merely testing that the software support for quad-core chips is in the works.

AOCs monitor with a built-in iPhone dock, the company now debuts it now on CES. It wraps off its HD monitor with 10-watt SRS Premium Sound Speakers. The 23-inch 1080p panel rocks a 50,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, a 250 cd/m2 brightness and 5ms response time in a sleek 12.9mm thick package. The device will be hitting the market in March and will cost you $280. For more details read the press release.

Todd Teresi has been hired to be the new chief of Apples iAd mobile advertising division, but since the hire it has been officially confirmed, it is all based on sources familiar with the matter. Bloomberg Business Week asserts that the iAd team has been cutting the prices to keep customers from jumping out, includes Google, nothing that the dominance seen in the tablet market is not exactly translating on the advertising side.

American Airlines has been approved by the FAA to use Apple iPad in cockpits to navigate maps. This initiative is believed to help the airline save about $1 million per year. The very first officially iPad flight will take off this Friday aboard a B-777 aircraft being fully FAA approved to use iPads on all flight phases, as digital flight manual readers and as electronic chart.

Grad Theft Auto III, released in the year 2001, was one of the most successful open-world RPG games. after nearly 10 years of its launch, Rockstar Games has ported and released the game for iOS and Android mobile platform. For those who don’t like on-screen controls, the game also supports select game-pads on Android devices.

Halloween is even more popular in Europe, but still remain the most crazy ideas for costumes for the time being in America. There, young people have a shirt that is two iPads Sun tinkered turn, it would look like him As though someone in the belly shot a hole would have. The whole thing is a Face Time Chat on Wireless and of course have to allow iPad 2 are used.

For: Good Performance, Improved camera, Siri is good and useful, Screen qualityAgainst: No LTE, Good Glass and Metal Design but easy to shatter.The iPhone 4S is finally here with many surprise, with Apple expected to release the iPhone 5 but instead we got an iPhone 4S now. The question is how good is it, and is it for you?. I t got some hardware changes, good design and compatible with existing accessories. It also has most apps, and often best apps. It also supports upgraded rear camera, an improved antenna design and a new internal radio allows the device to perform double duty on both CDMA and GSM networks. Read on the review to see whether it is really worth an upgrade.

The folks at 9to5 Mac have noticed that Apple’s iPad 2 Smart Cover lets you bypass a passcode lock on a device running iOS 5, albeit with limited access to the iPad’s applications. Here’s how the bug/exploit works. First, make sure your passcode lock is set to activate immediately when you lock your iPad (this will simplify testing, although the problem is still there if there’s a lock delay). Press and hold the iPad 2’s power button to elicit the “Slide to Power Off” slider — but don’t slide the control to actually turn it off.

For many independent or smaller-scale Mac developers, the promise and profits of international distribution for their apps is obscured behind a very practical challenge: internationalizing their projects, which can take months and plenty of money/resources as all the interface items are translated to the target language.Starting today, that’s going to become a bit simpler. The Tethras mobile application localization service.

The Will it Blend video series has been known for years and always offends not only the latest Apple products, but also some curious things that do not fit part way into the blender.The Apple iPhone 4S and just about everything that comes into the mixer survived the attempt, of course.

Although the largest change was completed on iPhone 4S under the hood and IOS5 can shine with new features, it holds many Apple fans do not depend on the device itself zuzulegen. According to the U.S. carriers AT & T , Sprint and Verizon , the new iPhone 4S in the USA more than sold out, so there will probably not start for the retail units. Bloomberg wants to know, will absorb some of the U.S.

There are now different Samsung S2 Galaxy versions. Among others with LTE and a larger screen and even a faster processor. It is to this smartphone our American colleagues have the Apple iPhone 4S can compete in various browser tests.In the first detailed video in the same connection is also compared briefly with the “older Apple iPhone 4”.

According to reports made after discussions with various hardware manufacturers in China, to negotiate a more favorable Apple Tablet, which could possibly also have a smaller screen. The Apple iPad Mini is the beginning of 2012 and appear to be mainly as a counter measure against the new Fire Announced Amazon. This 7-inch device that is sold in America in the coming days for 199 dollars, with a very limited interface that allows the purchase only products from Amazon, where you pretty much everything but again there.

Amazon has a nice browser Silk introduced to their new tablet yesterday. This could also be used outside soon and, most importantly Opera competition. Even Amazon uses its strong server before accessing a website to make considerably less, thus achieving a faster loading time and 3MB data in only 50KB to pull out of your very limited traffic from UMTS.Even if the Amazon server should fail me, the data is still transferred, but then of course you may wish to normal size, but such compression is not naturally applicable to video or music. Furthermore, the browser learns over time what pages users like sighted and loads them as required, to enable an even faster browsers.

Modern fathers have it easy / difficult, because with the iPad can employ the little boy for hours, and of course you want to bring a little more imagination in the game world, and movement. With a successful franchise now tried Disneyland with small AppMate figures, in the form of the “Cars” cars, the kids to collect and bring to play with the accessories.

Whether following friends and family, navigating the office or investigating the activities of your dog, its all possible with this audio/visual-enabled and photo-taking Rover. Its built-in microphone transmits sound back to your device in real time. So you can hear everything as its being said. The manually adjustable camera streams live video and takes still photos. Giving you total access to see whats going on in other rooms. Even take pictures as proof. Low-light setting? No problem! The undetectable infrared night vision lets you see items in the dark. Mission. Accomplished.