About that 7-inch iPad

Maybe the 7-inch iPad is dead. (Or Maybe not.) But it's worth resurrecting a discussion about the design, because it may have been much closer to product life than thought.
The 7-inch iPad that was killed. Or was it?

Apple CEO Steve Jobs' ramblings during the October 18 earnings conference call are well documented. But to recap excerpts of the homily he delivered on the sins of a 7-inch design: "Apple has done extensive user testing and we really understand this stuff...There are clear limits on how close you can place things on a touchscreen, which is why we think 10 inch is the minimum screen size to create great tablet apps," he said.
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Apple iOS 4: Complete Review

With three years of major iPhone software versions under its belt, Apple’s strategy for releasing updates has fallen into a recognizable pattern. So far, every release has been anchored by a tentpole feature that many will argue should have been there from the beginning. In iPhone OS 2.0, that was support for third-party apps; in iPhone OS 3.0, it was cut, copy, and paste; now, in the re-branded iOS 4, it’s multitasking.

Make no mistake, multitasking is the lynchpin of iOS 4; for better or worse, the rest is just window dressing-though welcome window dressing, to be sure.

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Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4s in 3 days

The official numbers are in, and it looks like Apple, Inc. managed to push out 1.7 million iPhone 4s from Thursday the 24th through this Saturday the 26th. Pretty impressive numbers coming out of Cupertino. We’ve got the official press release after the bump. Read Full Story........

iPhone 4 Leads the Pack With Stunning Design, Interface

Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone makes its predecessors look like toys. Heck, even the iPad looks sissy now.
It’s an impressive upgrade. The iPhone 4 ditches the curvy plastic case of the older models in favor of a thinner, squared-off glass body laced with a stainless-steel band. It has a higher-resolution display, a brand-new front-facing camera, an improved back camera with flash, double the RAM of the iPhone 3GS, and the same A4 processor that powers the iPad.......Read Full Story.

iPad Technical Specification.

Technical Specifications

Size and weight

Height:

9.56 inches (242.8 mm)

Width:

7.47 inches (189.7 mm)

Depth:

0.5 inch (13.4 mm)

Weight:

1.5 pounds (0.68 kg) Wi-Fi model;

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IBM Launches Lotus Notes Traveler for the Apple iPad

IBM June 8 formally anointed its free Lotus Notes Traveler Companion application with support for Apple's iPad. While Apple has shipped 2 million iPads in less than two months, the tablet is not yet at an inflection point where businesses are snapping them up for employees the way they contracted with PC makers to buy multiple machines. IBM hopes some of its more than 145 million Lotus Notes users will buy iPads and will want to access their work e-mail, calendar and contracts from those comfortable devices.......................................................

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Apple Announced "Two Million iPads sells Less then two Months"

Apple® announced that iPad™ sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries later this year.

“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

iPad allows users to connect with their apps, content and the Internet in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*

Developers have created over 5,000 exciting new apps for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch user interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. iPad will run almost all of the more than 200,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®.

*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial Co(SGLBIC) accuses Apple of copying/ Cloning iPad design from P88.

Chinese hardware manufacturer, Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial, is exploring a possible lawsuit against Apple over allegations the iPad design was a copy of its own tablet PC.

In a news report by Spanish daily El Mundo, the Chinese company's president, Wu Xiaolong, said in an interview that the iPad was similar to its P88, which was commercially launched in October last year.

Wu said he was "angry and flabbergasted" after seeing the news about Apple's iPad.

"It is certainly our design. They've stolen [it] because we presented our P88 to everyone six months ago at the IFA (International Electronics Fair) [in Berlin]," he was quoted in a Shanghaiist article, which cited extensively from El Mundo's report.

Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial is based in Shenzhen, China. The Chinese city is recognized as a location where the manufacture of "shanzhai" or "copycat" mobile phones and other electronic devices is proliferate, Bryan Wang, Springboard Research's Asia-Pacific research director for connectivity and country manager of China, told ZDNet Asia in a previous report.

But Wu, in a separate report by PCWorld, was quoted to say about the company's P88: "For this thing, we are not 'shanzhai' because we were first."

Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial submitted a patent application for the P88 last May, according to Wu, who noted that the approval process can take about a year, making it difficult for the company to sue Apple in the United States. But, he added that "if the iPad enters the Chinese market, we will sue them this spring".

An earlier report by the Shanghaiist stated that the P88 has a 10.2-inch screen that uses resistive touch and runs on an Intel Atom 1.6 gigahertz (GHz) chip, with a battery life of 1.5 hours. Comparatively, the iPad boasts a 9.7-inch capacitive multitouch screen, and is powered by a 1GHz Apple A4 custom-designed chip with a stated battery life of 10 hours.

Wu's threat of legal action is not the only lawsuit the Cupertino-based company may potentially face.

The New York Times last week reported that Fujitsu is currently talking to lawyers over the iPad naming rights. The Japanese company said it first applied for an iPad trademark in 2003 for a multifunctional device used by shop clerks to "verify prices, check real-time inventory data and close sales on the go", and which is sold mainly in the United States.

"It's our understanding that the name is ours," Masahiro Yamane, director of Fujitsu's public relations division, said in the report.