Apple has confirmed that the on-sale time for the new iPad will be 8am this Friday — a switch from the iPad 2 onsale, which happened at 5pm Australian time. Given that online orders are subject to shipping delays, buying in-store is probably going to prove popular.
The price for the new iPad is already pretty keen, but if you’re not in a mad rush to get one, Kogan is selling the new model for slightly less than Apple’s own pricing.
Given that its latest model is once again simply ‘the iPad’, it’s a reasonable assumption that Apple’s all-but-inevitable fourth-generation 2013 update will also stick with a subtitle rather than a distinct name. Based on Apple’s history with the iPad to date, we can make a fairly good guess at what it will cost in Australia and when it will launch.
The new iPad is here next week. It has sexy specs and cheaper pricing than ever before — but it also doesn’t support Australia’s current version of 4G and it has no name to call its own. Will the editors at Gizmodo, Kotaku and Lifehacker be buying or upgrading? Let’s find out.
The new iPad (which isn’t being called the iPad 3) has been announced, complete with retina display and some LTE support. Australians will get it on March 16 — just over one week from today, and the same time as the US. Pre-orders begin today, and we’ve got all the pricing details below.
Whatever happened to technology getting smaller and more integrated? A research project tracking banking executives has found that most of them carry two smartphones, a tablet and a laptop. The trade-off for the extra weight is the ability to better balance work and personal commitments by ignoring the ‘work’ phone out of hours.
With the iPad 3 all-but-confirmed for release next week, lots of people will be planning to grab themselves a shiny new chunk of Apple goodness. Others will be thinking it’s a fine chance to grab a discounted iPad 2. Here’s what you should be taking into consideration.
you don’t have to spend a lot of money on a tablet stylus. This hack uses a standard arrowhead eraser, a metal paintbrush and some craft foam to keep it all in place. The end result is a good-looking, nicely sized stylus, and if you use a metal paintbrush and have an iPad 2, you can just attach the stylus to your tablet magnetically.
Jetstar has had iPads since last year. Qantas is trialling iPads on one plane. Virgin Australia is also getting into the tablets-for-in-flight-entertainment game, but rather than going Apple, it will be using the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Some eight months after the device first appeared in Australia, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has finally released version 2.0 of its PlayBook tablet software. The big addition to this release? Native email, calendar and contact apps and the ability to run Android apps that have been optimised for the device.
