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Tim Cook took to the stage and kicked off today’s Apple event in grand style. As expected, he dazzled us with numbers about device sales which include total sales of a staggering 352 million iOS devices, 62 million of which were sold just last quarter. He also confirmed that 76% of Apple’s revenues in the last…
Spotted on both Verizon Wireless’ website and AT&T’s main website are teasers that hint something is coming soon to each company’s product lineup. Now it could be coincidence that these banners appeared on the eve of Apple’s big iPad announcement, but it’s also possible the two companies know more about Apple’s plans for the iPad 3 than…
Well-known iOS hacker Chronic studied a debug output from a prototype iPad 3 that was published in early February by BGR. At the bottom, he noticed the line: “vm_page_bootstrap: 244276 free pages and 8396 wired pages.” Using that information, he then calculated that the iPad 3 will have 1 GB of RAM. He writes, 244,276 (pages)…
Amidio is a self-described group of European mobile music enthusiasts. You may recognize the name as the company is the brainchild behind the popular OMGuitar app, an advanced guitar synthesizer for the iPad. On Monday, the company introduced the Futulele, a Ukulele app and case for the iPad and the iPhone. The Futulele is basically…
Pew asked 2,253 adults about their mobile phone in a survey conducted last month, and the results suggest that smartphones have finally overtaken dumb phones in the US. The survey shows that 45 percent of cell owners say their phone is a smartphone, and 49 percent of cell owners say that their phone operates on a smartphone platform.…
Richard Lai of Engadget got some hands-on time with prototype parts that supposedly came from a iPad 3. The parts were originally acquired by Chinese blog MIC Gadget. According to Lai, the parts suggest the iPad 3 will be about the same size and shape as the iPad 2; even the smart covers for the iPad 2 are compatible with these parts.…
Apple hit its 25 billionth downloaded app over the weekend and the company announced both the winner and the app on Monday morning. The app was Where’s My Water? Free, a popular puzzle game from Disney. The winner was Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China who will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card. This promotion shows…
Google Wallet is ready to expand its influence thanks to Sprint. Speaking at a Mobile Payment Services panel at Mobile World Congress 2012, VP of Google Wallet and Payments Osama Bedier told those in attendance that Sprint has plans to release ten Google Wallet devices this year. The next one to hit the retailer will…
The Next Web has an intriguing article on the rumored retina display of the iPad 3 and the problem it may pose to developers. Author Matthew Panzarino goes into considerable detail about the extra resolution of the iPad 3 screen and how it will increase the size of graphics used in apps. The increase could…
Microsoft took to the stage at MWC and unveiled the lastest pre-release version of Windows 8. The Consumer Preview version of the OS is available for public download and you can grab the ISO file from Microsoft’s website. Sadly, this build is for desktops and not tablets, so we will have a wait a bit…