What Apple has done here is doubled the pixel number in height and width—2,048×1,536 from 1,024×768—quadrupling its pixel density on the screen real estate, 3.1 million, if you want to crunch some numbers. Hence, the Retina Display. Prior to iPad, only iPhone 4/4S and iPod Touch 3rd generation were bestowed with the mesmerizing technology. On […]
Mar 19 2012 | Posted in
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iPad’s updated rear camera, which the company calls its iSight camera. It is a huge improvement over the iPad 2’s 0.7-megapixel shooter. If you’ve spent any time over on Apple’s iPad page, you’ve probably seen the exploded view of Apple’s five-element lens system, which was adopted from the iPhone. However you want to explain it, […]
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I still think Siri was a fine addition to family of features in the iPhone 4S, but as far as the iPad is concerned, it does not make much of a sense to me. A smartphone is an advised thing to carry with you on a morning jog or stroll through the park in the […]
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The original iPad made its debut with iOS 3.2. That OS’ limitations seem prehistoric today. You couldn’t bounce between applications with multitasking. You couldn’t organize applications into folders. And support for document printing and AirPlay streaming of music, videos, and photos didn’t arrive until November 2010. At launch, the new iPad comes with iOS 5.1. […]
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Mainstream magazines, including The New Yorker, Wired, and Vanity Fair, all have iPad-specific editions. Even specialty publications, such as comic books, test prep, and sheet music, have found their way onto the iPad. But when you compare the experience of reading on the iPad with its paper-based ancestor or dedicated e-ink readers, the iPad still […]
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Another advantage of iPad with 4G is the added capability of assisted GPS (A-GPS), allowing users to accurately pinpoint their locations on a map and take advantage of navigation and location-aware apps. The Wi-Fi-only models of the iPad can use rudimentary Wi-Fi hot-spot triangulation techniques to guess locations, but are much less accurate and consistent. […]
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The chances of the existence of paper are getting paper-slim. The invention, whose origins can be found in the early 8th century Chinese culture, has been tipped at the brink of extinction from existence for the last three to four decades. The main reason, technological innovations and inventions of the modern era. It was the […]
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Why make the prediction of a long death of paper? The reason is that it has infiltrated our lives so deeply that replacing a paper stack with a hard drive and words with 101011 bits and bytes will be a lengthy procedure. The use of paper is not limited to just reading and writing, though […]
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Currency, the instrument we all use in purchasing or selling anything, is another object that will be hard to subdue. Financial services companies like American Express and MasterCard have been investing every ounce of their energy to replace the conventional paper currency with plastic ones, and Google has joined the club with its electronic currency […]
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However, smartphones are taking care of this problem. Though the process is a little bit finicky to handle but it does the trick; transfer the file or app from the tablet to smartphone, and it will take it from there. No matter what convenience all these technology gismos provide us, paper has taken care of […]
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A tablet or e-reader: What is the best choice? Since the dawn of tablets after the advent of iPad from Apple, Inc., it has seriously overshadowed the e-reader market, pioneered by Amazon with their original Kindle. However, with time the importance of e-readers is beefing up as the deficiencies to the tablets are emerging in […]
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Amazon.com, Inc. got the rabbit out of the hat in September giving the tablet market a massive spin off. The first coloured e-reader, Kindle Fire will hit the US and UK markets on November 15. The Fire might have been labelled the e-reader by some in the technology circles but there is more to it […]
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