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The New iPad 3 Review

FreeAppleProducts — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:23:17 +0000

What do you use your iPad for? Chances are it’s not quite the same as anyone else. Part of the key to Apple’s success has been the company’s skill in creating an object that’s intimate because it’s personal. With the third-generation iPad, out tomorrow, Apple has taken its winning formula and upgraded the display, camera and connectivity to offer a greatly enhanced experience.

From the arrival of version one, two years ago, Apple’s skill was to create an interface which responded so instantly, so delicately to your every touch that it felt much more personal than a computer ever could.

Apple assembled a blank canvas versatile enough for everyone to use precisely as they wanted. That meant delivering hardware capable of the functions needed for music playback, video streaming, document creation, full-on gaming, elegant reading for magazines and books, map navigation and much more.

Last year’s iPad 2 added cameras, a slimmer, lighter form and faster processor. This time around, the design is the same as last year. It’s actually a little fatter, but only by 0.6mm, and a little heavier – but only by 50g. It feels similar, then, and many accessory cases will fit both. Apple’s cool Smart Cover, with hidden magnets which wake the screen as you open it, works perfectly.

The very best case is the Knomo Folio for iPad 2 (www.knomobags.com). It will still fit but the magnetic screen lock won’t routinely work. However, Knomo has told the Independent that a new, magnetically compatible model is on its way.

The new iPad so closely resembles the 2011 version you can’t tell them apart. Until you turn the screen on.

The latest iPad has a Retina Display – Apple-speak for a screen so high-resolution you can’t spot individual pixels. It’s as sharp as print. The iPad 2 screen was already pretty good and it was hard to spot flaws. Text was the main giveaway. Though highly readable, a good squint would reveal rough-edged letters or jagged lines where curves should be. For books on the new iPad display the text is curves all the waydown.

Personally, I’ve always preferred, you know, real books. You can feel that you’re half way through a novel from the way it sits in your hand, not from checking a bar chart along the bottom. And paper is more restful on the eyes than a backlit screen. However, the increased sharpness of the Retina Display improves the experience radically. Books still win, but it’s a closer-run thing now.

Gaming is a particular delight on the iPad, with the extra real estate compared to the iPhone making for easier to use, visually striking games. Now, with the new screen, the way is open for even smarter visual effects, rich, colourful graphics and eye-popping details. Even current games look great, thanks to an effective upscaling effect.

The new iPad has exactly four times the pixels of the old one, so the processor has been improved. In fact, the main part of the iPad’s brain, the CPU, is unchanged from last time, but the graphics processor has been upgraded to quad-core, so the pixels can be manipulated efficiently. The result is stunningly smooth, and since the new display delivers much greater colour saturation, impressively vivid, too.

Apple also points out that the display has been constructed in a new way, to separate the pixels from the signal each receives. By putting them further apart, the company argues, it solves problems of crosstalk, image noise and other issues. Whatever, it looks amazing.

This year’s iPad has a much-improved camera: a 5MP sensor instead of the less-than-one megapixel found on the iPad 2. The lens structure is borrowed from the iPhone 4S, which has an 8MP camera. The optics here include a wide-open aperture (f/2.4) and a backside illuminated sensor – where the wiring and other gubbins are hidden out of the sensor’s way – to allow more light through the glass.

The results are very good: sharp, detailed stills and high-quality HD video. There’s no flash, so low light can still defeat it. And ultimately there are good ergonomic reasons why no camera has ever been designed as large, flat and glassy. But for snaps – and very good ones at that – which you can view in all their glory on the iPad’s display, this is more than good enough.

The new iPad has faster 3G connectivity so that if you’re in an area in range of the new, faster speeds networks are rolling out you could find data traffic of up to 42Mbps – faster than much home broadband. Much of the time you’ll find speeds are lower than that, but the iPad can cope with them all. The label on the box, if you don’t opt for a wi-fi only model, says wi-fi and 4G. This is correct, except we don’t have any 4G networks in the UK yet, and when we do they will be on different frequencies – the 4G will only apply if you’re in the States and buy an AT&T sim card. Still, it’s the best-connected iPad yet and by the time we do have 4G here, there’ll probably be another iPad along first.

Even so, the iPad could be improved if it were easier to get documents or photos on and off it. A neat optional adaptor makes it a breeze to transfer images from a camera’s memory card to the tablet. But even though there’s also an adaptor so you can attach a USB stick, there’s no way to move documents or photos from iPad to USB – which would be handy if you’re stuck without wi-fi and needed to print a letter or save a document elsewhere, say. True, iTunes permits file sharing, and transferring documents by connecting an iPad to a Mac by cable is effective, but not quite the answer.

Last week, before it was announced, the technology world assumed this gadget would be called the iPad 3. But it has no number, in the way that other Apple products often lack them.There’s no iPod 12, for instance, or MacBook Pro 18. It’s a sign that the iPad is here to stay and perhaps that we should expect future versions to just be “the iPad”.

Though it does, by the way, leave the way open for additional names. The iPod was supplemented by the iPod nano, for instance. For now, though, it’s unlikely there’ll be a small-screened iPad – the late Steve Jobs was against such a thing – even though it would be a direct response to the iPad’s chief US rival, Amazon’s Kindle Fire.

I haven’t yet examined fully the new software that’s been introduced or upgraded for the latest software. Check out the separate review of iPhoto, iMovies and more soon.

Amazon apart, Apple has the tablet market more or less to itself. Samsung has launched several alternatives recently, and Asus has an excellent model with detachable keyboard to turn it into a faux laptop. But most other manufacturers seem to have given up.

Partly it’s down to the apps. There are now 200,000 iPad-native apps. No other tablet can claim anywhere near as many, with even Android only scoring highly when you include apps designed for phones.

And price is a factor. Each year, Apple produces a new iPad at the same price as last year’s, if not lower. Apple’s economy of scale has meant other manufacturers haven’t been able to undercut iPad prices, so why would you choose an alternative when the iPad is the same price?

This year the contrast may be even starker – it’s hard to imagine rivals matching the gorgeous and expensive Retina Display without pricing themselves out of the market.

Finally, the reason the iPad is out in front is that blank canvas again, with the combination of gorgeous hardware and an inviting interface mixing with the ingenuity of app developers to create an utterly appealing system.

Latest iPhone 5 Rumours!

FreeAppleProducts — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:57:03 +0000

The release date of the iphone 5 has been just an on going rumor for months now. Among the new features every new Iphone brings, the release date is just as hot a topic. People want to know exactly when it’s available so they can have it first, or have it at all. Every new Iphone release has always been a hectic yet very successful one for Apple, selling faster than they can deliver. People always want what they can’t have which just makes these launches that much more troublesome. Fear not, when the Iphone 5 release date is leaked you can be certain that we will have it for you first.

The Iphone 5 was expected to be released with the new iOS 5 but complications happened which made the release of the iphone 5 with iOS 5 impossible in Apple’s eyes. So here we have the Iphone 4S, which to many was a major disappointment. Most people were expecting more from one of the world’s biggest and most technologically influential companies to date. The day the Iphone 4s was announced, Apple’s stock plummeted and for good reason. While the Iphone 4s does offer performance upgrades and added features, it was not enough according to the majority of Iphone enthusiasts. While it isn’t the first time Apple released an ‘S’ version in between official versions, it was the fact that it was so out of the blue and unexpected it has shocked people and Apple’s stock.

The iPhone 5 release date is still just rumors circulating with no concrete information. However the fact that Apple seems to prefer to have their major launches in late spring to early summer is probably a good place to speculate as the next release date for Iphone 5. As of right now most tech gurus are saying early summer 2012, but now with the recent release of the Iphone 4s the iphone 5 release date could be delayed further. Customers that buy the iPhone 4s could be extremely angry if Apple were to release the Iphone 5 less than a year later. Unfortunately in today’s technology world 1 year is a very long time, so get used to it.

Not only are these release dates a matter of releasing a bug free product, but there is also a marketing aspect behind them. Apple wants to release at the absolute best time to maximize profits after building months and even years worth of hype. Delaying too long could allow for competition to come in and snag a good percentage of customers that grow tireless of waiting. Releasing too soon could result in a bug filled product that wasn’t tested enough causing major customer support issues and potentially damaging the company’s reputation.

As you can see the iPhone 5 release date is a very touchy subject for both customers, developers and manufacturers with many variables coming into play. Who will know the official release date of the Iphone 5 first? Apple of course! Who will be the next to know? Something to keep in mind though is that Steve Jobs delayed the iPhone 5 because he felt it wasn’t ready, however his successors seem to feel otherwise moving forward with the new phone. So there could be new standards and protocols Apple is taking now that could affect things like release date patterns we’re used to.

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Niggling problems with iMessage

FreeAppleProducts — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:54:10 +0000

Since the release of Apples iOS 5 for the iPhone and iPad and the release of Apples iMessage I have noticed the following niggling issues.

iMessages fail quite often and it reverts back to a standard SMS (Costs me money). Very expensive when its actually a picture you are trying to send.
If you are in a poor reception area (Non 3G) iMessage tries to send the message and just hangs before failing. Again it then reverts to SMS (Costs me money).
You can turn off the SMS function in your settings but then I find that I am forever having to resend messages.

Am I the only one having these problems? Apple needs to look into this problem. I would suggest a function that asks you how to send each individual iMessage, it should then stick with that method and not revert back to SMS. If it does happen to fail then it should keep trying to resend until success rather than failing.

I think it has a way to go before being as reliable as Blackberry Messenger.

Whats your views?

Steve Jobs dies: Apple chief created personal computer, iPad, iPod, iPhone

FreeAppleProducts — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:48:24 +0000

Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple’s iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died, Apple said. Jobs was 56.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” read a statement by Apple’s board of directors. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.”

Fifth iPhone expected to be launched by Apple Today

FreeAppleProducts — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:08:44 +0000

Apple is expected to launch the fifth version of its best-selling iPhone today. Journalists have been invited to a “Let’s talk iPhone” event at its California campus due to start at 10:00 PDT (18:00 BST).

Doubts surround how different the iPhone 5 will be to its predecessor though
some do expect big changes. The launch will be hosted by Tim Cook, now Apple’s full time boss following Steve Jobs’ retirement in August.

As ever with Apple launches, exact details of product features will not be
known until the event. Expert opinion is divided with some expecting significant changes.

“We’re expecting a flagship, high tier product to cement the iPhone’s
position as the must-have device,” said Ben Wood, director of research at
analysts CCS Insight

Gadget site Gizmodo took a different line and said there was only a 10%
chance of seeing a new iPhone. Instead, it said, the iPhone 4S will be the new model and it will be cheaper than its predecessor.

Others say the cheaper model will be aimed at Asia, one of the few places
where the smartphone has room for growth.

Rumours are also circulating that Steve Jobs will make a cameo appearance even though Mr Cook is expected to be the launch compere.

The event is the first since Mr Cook became official head of Apple. Before
now he was an interim boss who oversaw day-to-day running of the company when Mr Jobs was on sick leave.

History lesson

The iPhone 4 debuted 15 months ago and the hiatus between that launch and
today marks one of the longest periods without a new model in the history of the device. All previous versions, bar the first, have been unveiled in June.

Mr Wood said this might reflect the complexity of the task Apple set itself
when getting the iPhone working the iCloud service. This acts as a network-based backup and synchronisation system for Apple’s smartphones and tablets.

“The announcement is definitely more about the holy trinity of device,
software and applications, and services to which iCloud adds a completely new dimension,” he said.

The use of iCloud would help Apple stay one step ahead of rivals, especially
HTC and Samsung, who were fast getting their own hardware to match the
capabilities of the iPhone, said Mr Wood.

Apple will also be keen to put behind it the troubles that dogged the iPhone
4. Incorporating the phone’s antenna into its case was blamed for causing a loss
of reception. The problem led to the company offering free cases to owners to
combat the reception loss.

The launch of the phone is important to Apple which is keen to capitalise on
its growing share of the smartphone market. It faces strong challenges from
Google’s Android mobile phone operating system which, figures suggest, has
become the most popular among new phone buyers in the US.

The ability of the phone to be activated and updated without connecting to a
PC would help this push, said Mr Wood.

One strong competitor for the smartphone market is South Korean electronics
firm Samsung. It produces phones that use Android as well as models that use its own operating system called Bada.

Apple and Samsung are locked in litigation around the world over who owns the rights to use many technologies found in both smartphones and tablets.

The court room clashes have led to a ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany
and a ban on the sales of some Galaxy smartphones in the Netherlands.

In Australia, the row meant a delay to the launch of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. In
the most recent development in that row, Apple has reportedly rejected Samsung’s offer of a deal to settle the case.

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PROOF – FreebieJeebies in the media

FreeAppleProducts — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:32:07 +0000

FreebieJeebies was featured in two issues of T3 The Gadget Magazine. The issues were entitled ‘The Gadget Blaggers Bible’ and ‘The Greatest Ever Gadget Giveaway’ where the articles explained how to get a free Sony SatNav and Playstation 3.

Windows or Mac – What Would You Choose?

FreeAppleProducts — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:09:53 +0000

A majority of people today use Microsoft Windows as their primary operating system, but why? Apple Macintosh computers can easily rival Windows in many categories. One of the things that leveled the playing field was when Mac came out with a new operating system, (Version 10.5 “Leopard”.) “Leopard brought more than 300 new features.

After the Mac’s move towards victory, Microsoft became desperate. Microsoft rushed to quickly release a new, seemingly polished, operating system called Vista. Vista, having countless errors, glitches, and malfunctions was their downfall of the decade. Mac had taken the upper hand then, but why didn’t it last until now?

The most common reason that Macintosh isn’t as successful was because people do not want to change what they already know how to do. Many people have been accustomed to using the Windows computer.

Websites would be much more simplistic and bland if Microsoft wasn’t around to make the innovations that it created. Technology today wouldn’t be the same without Microsoft.

Macintosh, on the other hand, has grabbed the video/animation area by the horns by creating an easy-to-use interface mixed with amazing speed and power, perfect for modern needs. Unfortunately, Mac computers are not as popular because they are considerably more expensive.

In the past few years, much advancement has been made to both systems. There was one advancement in particular that changed the way we use our home computers today. That advancement is the left/right click function on the mouse. This concept was first utilized in Microsoft’s computers, and later, Macintosh picked up the idea as well. Overall, both brands make exceptional operating systems. So the choice is yours. What side will you choose? Please comment.

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Apple TV – Is it any good?

FreeAppleProducts — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:18:40 +0000

Apple TV

Hi guys I am looking at getting an Apple TV. I am going to mostly use it to connect with my iPhone 4.

What are your thoughts on the Apple TV? Thanks

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FreeAppleProducts — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:53:46 +0000

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Amazing New iPad 3 Concept Design!

FreeAppleProducts — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:22:29 +0000

Have you been wondering what the next generation ipad 3 is going to look like? Well look no further, this concept design by Guilherme Martins Schasiepen is a remarkably detailed design of what the next iPad 3 could look like. Check out the images and let us know what you make of it!