The iPad is not a big smartphone nor a scaled down laptop. It’s not really like any tablet that’s come before it. And for this reason, it will delight users ready for something new, and confuse and upset people who expect it to be something old and familiar.
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At its ‘Sneak Peek Into the Future’ media event today, Apple announced several major feature additions, including multitasking and an in-app ad network, to iPhone OS 4.0 for release this summer.
The most significant new feature of iPhone OS 4.0 highlighted by Jobs is multitasking, which recent rumors had indicated might be coming. Apple had not previously implemented this feature out of concern for battery life and overall performance, although Jobs said that the company had found a way to implement multi-tasking without these negative effects.
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Apple is reportedly scheduling a smaller 5- to 7-inch version of the iPad that is expected to launch as soon as the first quarter of 2011, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo.
Kuo, citing talks with upstream component sources, said Apple’s smaller-size iPad will be priced below US$400 and will target the highly-portable mobile device market and consumers that focus mainly on reading and do not have a high demand for text input.
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iFunia(www.ifunia.com), a professional developer of Mac multimedia software, today has expanded its family of Mac Video Converter products to include iFunia iPad Video Converter and iFunia DVD to iPad Converter. The new iPad Converter utilities offer a quick and simple way to help Mac users to convert their digital video content for Apple’s new iPad portable media player. Both application are priced at $29, require Mac OS X 10.5 or higher and can be downloaded online from the company.
The teardown experts at iFixit have been busy with the iPad over the past few days, beginning with an analysis of internal photos of the device posted to the FCC’s website last Friday and continuing with a teardown of the actual device on Saturday.
Late yesterday, the company announced that it had partnered with chip reverse engineering firm Chipworks to open up the iPad’s A4 chip, the custom Apple solution that serves as the brains of the device. The project involved both x-ray imaging of the iPad’s components and physical cross-sectioning of the A4 chip.
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Apple on Monday announced that it will formally introduce the next version of its mobile operating system, iPhone OS 4.0, at a special event scheduled for this week, April 8.
Apple sent out invitations on Monday for the event, scheduled for 10 a.m. Pacific, offering a "sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone software," according to Engadget. The event will be held at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., campus.
Apple is expected to release iPhone OS 4.0, along with a new version of its iPhone, this summer at the Worldwide Developers Conference.
In March AppleInsider reported that Apple plans to add full multitasking support in the forthcoming release of the 4.0 software update. Sources said that the company has developed a "full-on solution" to allow multitasking of third-party applications on the App Store.
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