Refurbished iPad Wi-Fi models are now available from Apple, offering the first discount on the new device since it launched last April. Free shipping is available and sales tax does apply, but each of the Wi-Fi iPad tablets are $50 off from their original price. Everything about these refurbished iPads is the same as its original counterpart.
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Within a couple weeks of the iPad launch in April 2010 there were already rumors flying around about a new iPad model with a forward facing camera. According to digitimes.com, touch screen suppliers for the iPad are preparing new screens and components for a 2nd generation iPad, available sometime in early 2011.
Considering iPhone 4 and the new iTouch have forward facing cameras to accommodate the FaceTime video conferencing feature, it’s very likely the next iPad model will come with this feature as well.
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Digitimes reports that touch panel and glass suppliers are completing validation for Apple’s second generation iPad.
Apple is expected to launch the second-generation iPad in the first-quarter of 2011, the suppliers noted.
Component shipments are expected in the beginning of 2011 with product launch in the 1st Quarter of the year.
Apple has been expected to add a front-facing camera to the next generation iPad to offer FaceTime video conferencing across all their mobile devices.
iPad News Source: macrumors.com
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System controls on multitasking tray in iOS 4.2 beta for iPad showing screen orientation lock
One of the text notes accompanying AppAdvice’s video walkthrough of the new iOS 4.2 for iPad suggests that the physical switch on the iPad’s side for locking the screen orientation has been repurposed as a mute switch. The change has been confirmed by posters in our forums.
With the change, screen orientation locking is now accomplished within the multitasking tray as on the iPhone under iOS 4. Interestingly, the switch had been originally planned to be a mute switch but was repurposed as an orientation lock as revealed in publicity materials published just weeks before the device’s launch.
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We’re getting reports from various sites that Apple has released the beta version of iOS 4.2 into the wild for developer testing. This is suppose to add a number of features, especially for the iPad, in the form of multi-tasking, AirPlay, folder organization, the ability to print from your iPad and more. Developers can access the beta through the Dev Center now.
This update is scheduled to come to consumers’ iPads sometime in November of this year, so devs will have a few months to tinker around with it before release.
iPad News Source: tuaw.com
Alongside today’s developer release of the first beta version of iOS 4.2, Apple issued a press release officially announcing the AirPrint feature that will allow iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches running iOS 4.2 to support wireless printing directly from the devices. HP will be the first to offer AirPrint compatibility with its ePrint line of printers.
Apple today announced that it is releasing a beta version of its AirPrint wireless printing for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to members of Apple’s iOS developer program today, and that AirPrint will be included in the free iOS 4.2 software update in November. AirPrint automatically finds printers on local networks and can print text, photos and graphics to them wirelessly over Wi-Fi without the need to install drivers or download software. HP’s existing and upcoming ePrint enabled printers will be the first to support printing direct from iOS devices.
Apple’s Phil Schiller notes that AirPrint will require no user configuration, no drivers, and no additional software, allowing users to simply tap to print photos and documents on compatible printers.
AirPrint will be compatible with the iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch second-generation and later, leaving out the iPhone 3G among iOS 4-compatible devices.
iPad News Source: macrumors.com
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