Sure is hard getting an iPad 2 lately (unless you’re in kindergarten).
Despite the latest and greatest Apple tablet’s availability at just about any retail store that’ll sell it, consumers have had a hard time actually purchasing one—especially the $500 model.
Word broke out last night that Best Buy may have been artificially …
Ah, to be a kid again. Riding your bike until your legs feel like they’re going to fall off. Popsicles! Free food, no job, minimal attention to hygiene. Using your free iPad 2 to—ho, ho, hold it right there. What free iPad 2?
If you’re a kindergartener in Auburn, Maine, a free iPad 2 is in your future. And if you’re a …
A six-page (and growing) forum post on Apple’s support website finds numerous owners of the Verizon-compatible iPad 2 reporting problems connecting to Verizon’s 3G network.
The problem seems to be that if the iPad’s Verizon connection is turned off, the tablet must be rebooted in order to get it connected again. This glitch only …
Well, that’s one way to beat the competition. According to Chinese trade website Digitimes, Apple had managed to delay the launch of the BlackBerry Playbook tablet by keeping touchscreen manufacturers so busy with iPad orders that they were too swamped to work on rival Blackberry’s tablet.
The website claims that PlayBook shipment was …
Does Apple’s iPad 2 “get out of the way” when you type an email, pluck guitar strings, or try to sign your name by tracing your fingertip across its glass surface? Apple hopes you think so, because that’s what a montage of app shots, a soothing voiceover, and some plaintive plucked piano chords seem to be selling.
Apple’s new iPad 2 …
Having trouble finding an iPad 2? YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Stock is depleted just about everywhere and people have had to resort to using common laptops and even—gasp!—first-generation iPads.
RadioShack is hoping to help with some of the iPad 2 frustration by selling the new tablet in many of its retail locations across the …
The unexpected game success of the week is a five-dollar app called Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. When it was released last Thursday for the iPad, only hardcore gaming heads had heard of it (or its Toronto-based studio, Capybara Games). Now, basically on the strength of word of mouth, it’s already hit third place on the paid iPad …
It’s mobile, “magical,” capable of HD graphics, flush with games, not unreasonably priced, and we know it’s blazing fast. So what if the iPad 2 suddenly grew an option to plug into your high-definition TV and supported wireless gamepads?
Think about it. Imagine Apple slipping its Apple TV technology into the iPad. Imagine plugging it …
Two weeks later, the rest of the world will finally be graced by the iPad 2’s presence. The tablet arrives on the shores of 25 countries today. The Wi-Fi version is slated to arrive in stores throughout Australia, Canada, UK, New Zealand and others.
Our neighbor down south, Mexico, won’t be left out either, and it’ll be …
One of Apple’s selling points for the iPad 2 was the introduction of a five-dollar app version of their music-creation-and-editing software GarageBand. The short version: It’s not the Perfect Instrument; it’s not as powerful as the full-featured desktop version of GarageBand. It’s a toy, and it’s not worth buying an iPad solely to have …
It’s official: the iPad 2 will go on sale in 25 countries this coming Friday, March 22.
Those countries are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland …
As Japan struggles to cope with the ongoing tragedies engendered by earthquakes, tsunamis and faltering nuclear power plants, Apple has announced that it will postpone the launch of the iPad 2 in the tech-savvy country.
The tablet, which launched on Friday in the U.S., was scheduled to debut in Japan on March 25. But Apple spokeswoman …
