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Apple To End Support For 1st Gen iPad Air and Thunderbolt Display
Apple will be ending their support for the 1st generation iPad Air as well as the Thunderbolt Display. Apple Ending Support For iPad Air and Thunderbolt Display According to an internal memo which was acquired by MacRumours, Apple will be placing their 1st Generation iPad Air as well as the…
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Apple Refreshes iPad Mini and Launches 10.5″ iPad Air
A Quiet Launch for Apple Tech giant Apple has rolled out two new additions to their iPad lineup. Unusually, they have also done so without much hype or pre-announcements before hand. Taking cues from Beyonce with her last album release. The new iPads bring about significant improvements over previous units.…
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iFixIt Reveals New iPad is Basically Just 1st Gen iPad Air with Minor Updates
The latest iPad from Apple, currently in its 5th generation update has been released recently although according to the findings by teardown experts at iFixIt, aside from some minor updates, the new tablet is infact very nearly identical to the 1st generation iPad Air which came out in 2013. Many…
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iPad Given to Every Member of the UK’s House of Commons Member
After the May elections have concluded, the UK’s Members of Parliament will all have new iPads to go along with the new government. All 650 House of Commons MPs will receive a cellular equipped iPadAir 2s, courtesy of the Parliament’s tech team, allowing them to securely work from anywhere they…
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iPad Mini Dubbed ‘World’s Most Breakable Gadget’ by SquareTrade Europe Insurer
Smartphones and tablets are more fragile than we think, and that’s why some people get to have broken displays or other damage (even water damage) to their devices. Some may come with harder cases which can withstand some impact, and other may be even waterproof, but they are not invincible.…
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Amazon Offers Kindle Fire HDX Tablets With Installment Plan Payments
When the Amazon Kindle Fire first hit the market in 2011, it was right around the holiday shopping season. With its low price, the original Kindle Fire immediately challenged the Apple iPad for leadership on top of the tablet sales charts. But that was then and this is now. Apple…
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Apple’s iPads Could Be Challenged By Samsung’s AMOLED Tablets Next Year
Samsung could be working on new high-end tablets with AMOLED displays according to South Korean Web portal Naver. Following some industry rumors, Naver said that Samsung is working on a 8-inch screen tablet and a 10-inch screen tablet. Both will come with AMOLED displays, which are designed to be faster,…
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What I want for Christmas…
This Christmas looks set to be one of the most financially ruinous and terrifying ever to be experienced by the friends and family members of technology fans, man, woman and child alike… Christmas 2013 sees a bumper line-up of freshly released technology offerings jostling for position beneath the Christmas trees…
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iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina Display LTE Hotspot Battery Life Benchmark
As we all consider battery life a key feature, it might be worth taking a look on how well the new iPads perform while using the LTE Hotspot feature. The guys at Anandtech performed such a benchmark using a 100KB/s constant download from a laptop tethered over WiFi to the…
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iPad Air Is Much Cheaper To Make Than iPad 3 – Costs $274
According to IHS and AllThingsD Apple’s new iPad Air costs between $274 and $361 to build depending on the model in question. This means absolutely huge profit margins for Apple as the devices sell from between $499 to $929, with cheapest being a 16GB WiFi only model and the most…
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iPad Air Dethroned By Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 In Terms Of Display Quality
While the iPad Air is receiving a lot of praise, Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX took it in a display shootout, and won apparently. When DisplayMate Technologies tested the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, the iPad Air, and Google’s Nexus 10, the Fire 8.9 “leapfrogged into the best-performing tablet display that we…
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iPad Air Sales Are Nearly 5 Times That Of The iPad 4
It was recently announced that Apple was anticipating a very successful launch of their “new” tablet: The Apple iPad Air. Despite whether or not you think that Apple’s technology has really improved or differed from their previous iterations of their tablet line, records show that Apple’s new tablet has already…
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Amazon Takes Aim At Apple With “Lighter Than Air” Kindle Fire HDX Slogan
Softpedia reports that Amazon has trialled a bit of tongue-in-cheek advertising on its homepage, taking aim at Apple’s new iPad Air. Amazon used the slogan “Lighter Than Air” briefly trying to persuade consumers that there are other options to the iPad Air. Indeed, the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 inch and 7…
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Apple Reveal iPad Air 9.7 Inch Retina Display 64-Bit Tablet For $499
At Apple’s press event today the company unveiled its newest tablet addition – the iPad Air. The tablet that many people were expecting to be called the iPad 5 has been given a slightly revised name but is still a leaner and meaner tablet creation from Apple. The iPad Air…
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