iPad Basics

AT&T – Details on iPad 3G Data Plans

April 29, 2010

AT&T has put out a PDF document outlining details of its data plan pricing for the iPad WiFi + 3G. There’s not much that we didn’t already know in the document, but one point Gizmodo picked up on is that you’ll have free access to AT&T’s 20,000 plus WiFI hotspots while you’ve got a data [...]

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The iPad Has 256MB of RAM

April 4, 2010

The lovely folks over at iFixit have continued to rip apart and desecrate the iPad over this launch weekend.  One of the biggest new finds is the amount of RAM the iPad has. It’s got 256MB – the same as the iPhone 3GS. Yes, the K4X2 is a Samsung DRAM part number! Decoding the part [...]

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Free ePub eBooks Can Be Synced to iPad – Steve Jobs Says So

March 25, 2010

As expected, it has been confirmed by Steve himself that free ePub ebooks can be synced to the iPad via iTunes. Apparently Steve Jobs is continuing to reply to user questions on all things iPhone and iPad – this time even firing off a reply from his iPad.  This one was in reply to a [...]

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More Details on iPad 3G Data Plans & Managing them on the iPad

March 15, 2010

As with most of Apple’s iPad pages, the one covering the iPad WiFi + 3G model has been updated with lots more juicy detail since iPad pre-orders start day.  We already knew that the 3G coverage is provided by AT&T, that it will offer speeds up to 7.2 Mbps, and that if you grab one [...]

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iPad Has an External Button for Screen Rotation Lock

March 13, 2010

  The iPad has an external button for screen rotation lock – just above the Volume up/down controls. This is one of quite a few interesting new things we learned yesterday about the iPad, as Apple revealed more about the device when pre-orders went live. It’s a very handy addition that should make for much [...]

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Advanced Wallpaper Options on the iPad

February 24, 2010

At the iPad launch event, it was announced that we’d be able to customize home screen wallpaper on the iPad – but we haven’t seen too much more about this since then.  Until now. This week, lots of folks are digging into the latest SDK beta and finding lots of new goodies.  I’ve been following [...]

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iPad Tech Specs: External Buttons & Controls

February 18, 2010

As part of our iPad Basics coverage, it would be useful to lay out the tech specs of the device.  You can of course go to this Apple page to review them all, but I figured it might be useful to share them in more bit-sized chunks, as there are a lot of them. So [...]

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iPad Tech Specs: What’s In the Box

February 16, 2010

I thought as part of our iPad Basics coverage, it would be useful to lay out the tech specs of the device.  You can of course go to this Apple page to review them all, but I figured it might be useful to share them in more bit-sized chunks, as there are a lot of [...]

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iPad Tech Specs: Display, Storage, Battery & Power

February 13, 2010

I thought as part of our iPad Basics coverage, it would be useful to lay out the tech specs of the device.  You can of course go to this Apple page to review them all, but I figured it might be useful to share them in more bit-sized chunks, as there are a lot of [...]

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iPad Tech Specs – Dimensions

February 8, 2010

I thought as part of our iPad Basics coverage, it would be useful to lay out the tech specs of the device.  You can of course go to this Apple page to review them all, but I figured it might be useful to share them in more bit-sized chunks, as there are a lot of [...]

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iPad Basics – Built-in iPad Apps

February 5, 2010

The iPad home screen looks a bit sparse in the views of it we’ve seen so far – containing even fewer apps than the original iPhone had when it launched.  Of course it will have the App Store right out of the gate, unlike the V1 iPhone, so all those blank spaces can easily be [...]

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