Steve Jobs proudly announced five publisher partners for the iPad's new iBooks app yesterday -Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, MacMillan and Hachett Book Group - but according to Apple insiders one print heavyweight was conspicuously missing. McGraw-Hill was unceremoniously dropped from the keynote, after CES Harold McGraw III prematurely spilt the iPad beans earlier in the week.
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Archive for January, 2010
McGraw-Hill dumped from iPad keynote over loose-lipped CEO?
Apple iPad video galore: Keynote & Hands-On
Apple’s iPad is official, but you can’t get your hands on one for another couple of months (three if you want integrated 3G). The next best thing, then, is lashings of video, and happily we have just that for you. Apple have put their official keynote video online, and after the cut we’ve got almost twenty minutes of our own hands-on footage.
MSI Tegra tablet coming 2H 2010 for $500
We'd question the timing of announcing tablet plans so close to Apple's iPad launch, but with mixed reactions to the Cupertino slate perhaps there's room for rivals to sneak in. MSI's sales director, Sambora Chen, has confirmed that they too have a 10-inch touchscreen slate in the works, which will arrive in the second half of 2010 priced at around $500.
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Griffin jump on iPad accessory gravy train
It didn't take long for accessory manufacturers to jump on the Apple iPad bandwagon, and Griffin is one of the first we've seen. While the tablet itself won't ship for another couple of months, they're already promoting a range of cases and screen protectors.
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Nexus One Desktop Dock arrives: A2DP audio but no PC sync
We kept screaming for Nexus One accessories and now, finally, we have one. Google have pushed their Nexus One Desktop Dock out of the door, and as expected it does more than merely charge your smartphone and keep it out of the dust and crumbs on your desk. Dropping a Nexus One into the Desktop Dock automatically kick-starts the Clock app (with time, weather, alarms, photo slideshows and media playback), and there's also an audio-out connector that allows you to hook the dock up to a speaker system and easily play music from your phone.
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OLPC XO-1.5 approved by FCC, releasing soon?
The OLPS XO-1.5 was previously announced in 2009, and was believed to come in January 2010. It hasn’t been released yet, but has just reportedly received approval from the FCC, always a milestone to watch for.
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iCall VoIP now available over 3G on iPhone/iPod Touch, possibly on iPad?
An update to the iPhone developer SDK now enables Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users to make VoIP calls over cellular networks. The application, dubbed iCall, is the only one in the Apple App Store at this current moment that can allow for VoIP over 3G connections.
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iPad 3G data plan the real star of Apple’s show?
Apple have never been impressed with netbooks - they've consistently criticized the budget ultraportables and maintained that they have no interest in producing one - but with the Apple iPad Steve Jobs basically declared war on netbooks. After opening with a snub - "netbooks aren't better at anything - they're just cheap laptops" - Jobs went on to rub salt in the wound with the launch of a 3G data plan that's half what netbook buyers are currently expected to pay.
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Apple iPad accessories: Keyboard Dock, case & more
Apple didn't just announced the iPad - they also brought along some official accessories to use with it. Two docking stands, a pair of adapters and a case will go on sale alongside the iPad, and of the four the most interesting is probably the keyboard dock. That holds the tablet in portrait orientation, and provides a full-sized Apple keyboard on which to type.
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iPad Hands-on Gallery and Video
What can we say: it feels even thinner in the metal than it looks in the photos. We’ve just had a hands-on play with the Apple iPad and it’s mighty impressive. Speed and screen quality aren’t in short supply, with the tablet – that, thanks to all that metal and glass, has a reasonable heft to it – whipping through the customized iPhone OS.
Apple iPad official
Apple have unveiled the iPad, their long-awaited and much-rumored tablet. A half-inch thick slate, the iPad has a 9.7-inch LCD IPS 1024 x 768 display with multitouch, , WiFi 802.11n and – optionally – integrated 3G, the iPad is based on a new 1GHz Apple A4 of the company’s own design. Onboard storage ranges from 16GB to 64GB, and the whole thing runs the iPhone OS with a new, custom UI. Best of all, pricing will start at $499 when the Apple iPad begins shipping in around 60 days time, with $130 on top for adding integrated 3G. More details after the cut.
SlashGear’s Apple liveblog underway!
It’s January 27th 2010 and SlashGear is outside the Yerba Buena Center – looking pretty darn resplendent in its paint-spattered decor – waiting to bring you all the news from Apple’s latest media event. Biggest expectation today is a new iPad tablet; we’ve supposedly seen shots of the display and shots of the casing, now all we need is Steve Jobs to take to the stage and make it official.
Apple iPad detail hands-on demo:
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