Apple's former CEO and the main force behind creativity in technology passed away today. 57 year old Steve Jobs was battling pancreatic cancer for 7 years, which unfortunately got the better of him. No matter what side you're on in Apple vs the world, I'm sure today is a sad day for all of us. Apple lover or not, there is no doubt that Steve Jobs is a man that has changed the world and have given us inspiration in technology, a legend that will most definitely live a very long life. R.I.P, Steve Jobs.
Let it be known for all that gives a toss - the Apple iPhone 5 will be officially announced come the 4th of October. And what better place for Apple to brag and boast its own product then in their own Californian based Head Quarters in Cupertino. I walked passed the new Apple mega-store that recently opened here in Hong Kong the other day, and saw an army of Apple employees crowding around the tight queue of over-eager shoppers, clapping and cheering as each prospect client walks through the threshold and into the white abyss. From that, I can imagine a similar scene of unified vested employees, gleefully cheering and clapping the new iPhone model into the world. But less of my biased ramblings and more on the Apple news after the break.
The new choice of venue for the announcemen
Apple and Samsung have been going at it for a little while now, with Apple suing Samsung for the alleged copying of what Apple is trying to patent as the 'tablet look', with Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. Well it looks like things are going a bit out of hand as Samsung are now using a reference taken from a 1969 film as a means of defense. The film: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The reference: read after the break.
The clip from the film that Samsung are using in their defense has the film's actors using a tablet-like device, which Samsung are saying are generic tablets and therefor claiming Apple did not create the classic tablet look. This is of course the same design Samsung are using for their Galaxy Tab 10.1, and pretty much almost every other tablet out there. And wit
The man within the Apple's core - Steve Jobs has recently resigned from being the CEO of the major company. This resignation was sent by a letter via his public relations team, and has him not only announcing his resignation, but also his request for a Chairman of the Board position, and his recommendation of who should be Apple's next CEO. You can read all this from his letter which you'll find after the break.
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly re
It looks as if that may be the case. According to a report from DigiTimes, Industry sources have been qouted on the company's involvement with Taiwan based companies, Novatek Microelectronics and Richtek Technology, as well as Capella Microsystems and Integrated Memory Logic. With the aid of these companies, Apple are hoping to come out with a low-cost slate housing low-cost hardware with the exception of one: the high-costing Retina display that may be used in the slate. Read more after the break.
Apple are aiming to balance out the overall cost of the new tablet from the high cost of the display with the low cost of its circuits and other cheaper parts. This will allow Apple to compete with other cheaper-than-the-iPad slates such as the Acer Eee Pad Transformer and other Acer ta
The iPhone/iPad never had many buttons to begin with, but Apple is taking it a step even further with their AssitiveTouch feature. Discovered by the good people of 9to5Mac in the latest beta (beta 3) of iOS 5, the feature - an updated version at that - enables the user to navigate around the device like you would with buttons. Click after the break for examples of AssistiveTouch, as well as the video showing it off.
Home screen, locking the device, rotating the display, adjusting the volume and even enabling multitouch gestures are all part of the AssistiveTouch useability. It may take just a few more taps than actually pushing buttons, but the whole purpose of it is to be designed for user with difficulties in accessing iOS device's buttons. Could we be seeing something s
We don't blog much about Apple products, nor the Apple made operating system iOS, but this particular piece of news is of interest, especially if Google introduces something similar to Android. The latest version of iOS - iOS 5 - that was previewed during the recent WWDC event showed that it will be bringing to the iPad a split keyboard that's also known as 'Grab Handles'. What this does is it splits the keyboard into two, placing them on either side of the display and allowing you to type using just your thumbs as you hold, or grip, onto the tablet - perfect for people with short fingers or avid thumb-war warriors. As you may already know, reaching the middle of a regular on-screen keyboard whilst holding with both hands is pretty hard, so this new split keyboard will make typing that m
A comparison table that compares 13 of the best tablets on offer right now is putting them all into rank in an attempt to see which tablet comes out on top. The comparison table comes courtesy of tabletcommunity.de, and awards points (up to five) for several aspects such as form factor, display, CPU, storage, camera, connectivity and battery. These points are then totaled and coupled with the price of the tablet. These two factors depict where a tablet stands in the ranking. Check the tablet out after the break to see which tablet came out as No. #1. Although I'm pretty sure we've made that pretty obvious...
The Motorola Xoom is the tablet to rank as No. #1. However, the table shows that it achieved the same amount of points as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 at 29 points, but came out on top
The Motorola Xoom, the tablet that has been paraded as top contender against the iPad 2 has just been beat in a benchmark comparison between the two. Figures show from a GLBenchmark test that the iPad 2 is able to render 57.2 frames per second. The Motorola Xoom was able to render 26.7 frames per second - substantially lower than the Apple tab. A blow for the Xoom, however it is up against a titan. Although this titan is having its fair share of exposed pros and cons that have come into light from the relentless stripping of flesh. All in order to bear the tablet's full specs ever since its release. And with that, we've come to learn that the iPad 2's heart is in fact a 894MHz ARM Cortex CPU with apparent Samsung markings - not quite the 1GHz that people had hoped for. It also has 512MB
With such high-tech devices gracing the market and blog sites, it only seems fair to pit them against each other to see what makes a tablet what it is, and how much better it is over its competition. Engadget have done just that by creating a comparison tablet showing the specifications for the Apple iPad 2, the Motorola Xoom, the HP TouchPad and the BlackBerry PlayBook. Each tablet is a marvel in its own right, sporting some of the latest pieces of technological ingenuity and some even have room for upgrades. What's great about being able to compare these four tablets is not only that they are leading the forefront in the tablet world, but also the fact that they each run on different platforms. Check after the break for more information on each tablet, as well as the comparison table t
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