Apple dishes new iPad details on 3G, iBooks, more

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The availability of pre-orders isn’t the only new development in iPad-land. Apple also updated its site with a plethora of new details about its latest and greatest device, from information on the 3G networking capabilities to a more in-depth description of the iBooks application. Let’s take a look at what caught our attention.
Three G’s are [...]

iPad now available for pre-order

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If you’ve left one of your browser tabs open to the Apple Store for the past seven days, your payoff is finally at hand. As promised last week, Apple made the iPad available for online pre-order on Friday morning, meaning you must now once again reset your countdown clock timer for [...]

The App Store Now Available From Your Browser

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Just two weeks after extending its iTunes preview service to apps, Apple has just made another step in this direction and now allows you to consult pretty much the entire App Store directly from your browser.

Apple and Carriers quietly raise 3G app download limit to 20MB

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This one sort of slipped through the cracks on us, but AT&T and Apple have doubled the size of the “over the air” app downloads to 20MB.  The update came sometime earlier this week.  Is this a good move?  Perhaps AT&T is getting cocky with all of that extra bandwidth they [...]

iPhone Firmware Update 3.1.3 Out Now, Fixes Minor Bugs

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The 3.1.3 firmware update for the iPhone is out now, available through an iTunes update. It’s no revelation, fixing only the accuracy of the 3GS battery meter and the stability of some third-party app launches.
[via gizmodo]

iPhone OS 3.2 supports video calling, file downloads, SMS and…multitasking?

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Engadget has just confirmed with “extremely trusted sources” that iPhone OS 3.2 contains rudimentary support for video calling, which could explain that mysterious space at the top of the iPad’s leaked pictures they received.
Engadget’s sources said there are hooks to accept and decline a video conference, flip a video feed (which [...]

Apple iPad: Everything You Need to Know

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From the realm of sci-fi to Steve Jobs’ stage: The iPad is official. What is it? What can it do? How does it work? Here’s everything you need to know about Apple’s newest creation, all in one place.
[via gizmodo]

The Apple iPad: starting at $499

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After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple’s finally unveiled the iPad. It’s a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it’s running a custom 1GHz Apple “A4″ chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life [...]

New iLife, iPhone OS 4.0, and tablet next week?

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Almost everybody who a) cares about Apple and b) is breathing knows already that Apple has an event scheduled for next Wednesday, January 27th.

Rumor: iPhone OS 4.0 Features Revealed

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BGR posted a few minutes ago what they claim to be specific details of Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 features.
While we recommend reading this with the usual skepticism, this feature list looks actually pretty realistic to me. Here is what they have:

There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS [...]