The Secret Behind the ‘Thinner’ Body of iPad 2
Apple seems obsessed with making gadgets with a thin form. Just look at the thin laptop MacBook Air or iPhone. No exception iPad 2 is present in the lean body , even thinner than the iPhone 4. iPad 2 will be 34% slimmer than the previous 13.4 mm in the first generation, to 8.8 mm only. Then the weight will be 600 grams of a previously reached 700 grams. What does Apple do to make iPad 2 so thin? Apparently the biggest modification was done on the battery. The resources in this iPad 2 only 2.5 mm thick, 59% thinner than previous versions iPad battery in the size of 6.1 mm.
iPad Price Deliberately Decreased for iPad 2?
Rumors about the presence of Apple iPad 2 is getting warm again. Now, it is triggered by the falling prices of iPad first version which is by made several operators in the United Kingdom. That said, the large discount prices scale is in order to spend the remaining stock of iPad, while anticipating the presence of second-generation iPad. So likely, Apple will release a second iPad soon.
As quoted from Apple Insider, Tuesday (02/22/2011), T Mobile and Orange operator which operates in the UK, recently simultaneously lowering the price of a featured iPad 16GB 3G and Wi-Fi. Orange is now selling iPad priced £ 99 with a two-year bond contract. Prices were down dramatically from the earlier reached 199 pounds. Similarly, T Mobile reduce price IPAD to 99 pounds. Not only about the price cuts, stock iPad reportedly began to disappear in some UK retail. For example Carphone Warehouse is now out of stock iPad 3G.
iPad two is predicted to present in April, but with an indication of such discounts, it could be the launch would be early. Estimates on the specifications of the Apple tablet whiz itself has circulated in cyberspace. For example, the iPad 2 has predictable features of the camera for video chat with FaceTime technology. Then the hardware is expected to experience a variety of improvements, including faster CPU and higher RAM capacities.
Five Tablet PCs Approximately to be Primadonna
Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2011 Las Vegas – A lot of vendors plans to make Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2011 in Las Vegas as a platform to introduce its flagship tablet PC. But of the many products that are present, only five are apparently ready to be sticking a new prima donna.
1. Samsung TX 100
Samsung TX100 is a tablet result of ‘marriage’ with the netbook. The concept is indeed unique. Although fully able to operate as a touch screen tablet, TX100 can be directly transformed into a netbook when it issued a sliding keyboard. The transformation process is claimed to run smooth.
2. Motorola Xoom
Touted as the toughest rival of iPad in 2011, Xoom is the first tablet that carries the Honeycomb Android operating system, which is staying assumed very suitable to be implemented in the tablet. Have dual-core processor, promising a solid performance.
3. Acer A500 Iconia Tab
One mainstay Acer tablet in 2011 comes with a specification reliably. Call it Tegra2 NVIDIA processor dual-core and dual cameras, each measuring 5MP and 2MP. Adopt Android Honeycomb, this tablet is ready to challenge its rivals.
4. BlackBerry Playbook
Already crowded the discussion of this tablet. Powered dual-core processor ARM Cortex A9, Playbook also bring new operating system called QNX. BlackBerry supported big names, not wrong if these tablets will fly high.
5. Lenovo LePad
Lenovo LePad has a privilege because it also can turn into a laptop so coupled with a device called U1. Uniquely, when the form of tablets, it is the Android OS. But when combined with the U1, LePad operate with Windows OS 7.
