Posts Tagged iPad
I’m Back
Posted by Malcolm Micallef in General, Technology on April 6, 2010
This site been quiet for a week now. I shall start updating it again from today.
It was quiet because I went to visit my brother in Bournemouth. Where I almost lost some limbs due to the cold while the horny English girls wore outfits where the total area of material equalled the boxers I was wearing and I don’t wear large boxers.
Anyway let’s continue. While I was away the site was unusually busy for days I haven’t updated. The site has low traffic when I do not update it. But traffic was equalling days where the site was updated. After anaylzing (you have to love Google Analytics) I concluded this increase traffic came from a very unlikely source. The iPad was launched last week and because of that my site had a traffic boost.
Seems like there are at least 50 people in Malta wanting to purchase the device. Being the fair guy that I am I will tell you how to do so…
EBay or Amazon (if they gave up on their discriminating shipping policies). When I find a moment of free time I will try preform an impartial review by reading other reviews. Steve Jobs still ignoring my e-mails and doesn’t want to send me a test unit.
Either way the iPad already a huge success. I believe 700,000 units have already been sold and there are no more units available to purchasing. Manufacturers are going to hire more little children and work their tiny fingers to the bone to double production of the device. Now fat Americans can Twitter from the loo.
If you really want to purchase the iPad you will have to wait a bit before it comes to Malta, but since you are so serious you can use EBay to find the device. Be prepared to pay a fair bit though. The cheapest iPad I found that ships to Malta is 525 Sterling. But if you want to go to places and have people stare at the piece of technology between your hands go ahead buy the device.
iPad to hit the streets soon
Posted by Malcolm Micallef in General, Technology on March 7, 2010
The eagerly wanted and probably the best selling gadget of the year will start selling on the 3rd of April. Techie people prepare for all tech websites not to stop talking about it. I still haven’t figured out what I would use it for and I since I hate all products Apple I obviously won’t be buying one.
The 3rd of April debuting day is the date the iPad will start shipping in America. All models will hit shelves in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the U.K. by late April, with later rollout dates for other nations. U.S. customers can begin pre-ordering both models beginning on March 12.
In Malta the product will be available I would assume some time after. Since Malta is not considered to be part of the world.
I wonder if we will start seeing lots of people with the iPad all around Malta…
Maybe at university, MCAST and bus trips. Queues to get to Gozo will never be the same again 
Notion Ink Adam Tablet
Posted by Malcolm Micallef in Gadgets, Technology on February 9, 2010
At the moment I do not really see why I would use a tablet computer. A touch screen laptop with a rotating screen sounds very appealing to me but a tablet doesn’t. It is way too start calling devices iPad killers. However, if I had to buy a tablet I would prefer Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet.
This tablet is powered by the Android, a very popular OS for phones and larger devices. It uses the next generation NVIDIA Tegra chipset with a Pixel Qi display. The Tegra is an incrediable chipset allowing devices to process full HD video streams while only using a little power. Combine this with the high tech display unit, which uses considerably less power and you start to understand why this device is much more appealing than an iPad.
This unit is not only more powerful than the iPad (capable of outputting full HD movies andplaying more graphic intensive games, the iPad can only handle 576p/480p) but the battery life is considerably longer than the iPad. Rohan Shravan, the CEO, suggested that the battery life of this device could be 2-3x longer than that what the iPad manages. According to Jobs the iPad manages 10hrs so this would be in the range of 20-30 hours.
Next week there is the Mobile World Congress where further details about this tablet will be announced. There will also be a demonstration of the Adam running flash; something that the iPad can’t do and probably won’t ever manage to do because of the closed user experience on the device.
During the conference Adam should be announcing an Applications Competition, similar to Google’s Android Developer Challenge. This will encourage software developers to design applications for the Adam tablet. It’s been suggested that there will be over 1 million Us Dollars in prizes to give away.
Continue reading to watch an old demonstration of the device in action.
Further iPad details
Posted by Malcolm Micallef in Gadgets, Technology on January 28, 2010
After a day to think about the iPad and reflect on possible uses I have decided that it is going to be a huge success.
- Firstly it’s an Apple product and whatever they seem to be doing nowadays generates trucks load of cash.
- It’s not expensive (priced at 500 US Dollars).
- Great Battery life.
- People for some reason I can’t comprehend love iTunes.
- The ideal device for Multitouch technology
This device is attempting to seek and destroy all laptop and netbooks on a global scale. The iPad has declared war on all laptop based products.
Apple Tablet has been released and its … iPad
Posted by Malcolm Micallef in Gadgets, Technology on January 27, 2010
Its official the tablet all Apple fantics and other people has been announced by Steve Jobs. So far from what I can see is that the device has a 10 inch screen, with a ratio between 4:3 and 16:10. The tablet uses a 1Ghz Apple CPU. It runs a version of iPhone OS which allows the device to run iPhone applications without any modification to the application. The device has the same features as its smaller (but older) brother (iPhone). It is capable of WIFI, Bluetooth, has an accelerometer, compass, speaker, and mic. According to Jobs it is capable of 10 hours of use, which I have to admit is very impressive. Though from what I read so far the device does not support flash. So it really seems the best way to describe the iPad at the moment is as the younger brother who managed to get into a statch of anabolic steroids….
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