Well, I’m sorry I lied to all of you when I said that iPad would be released in Canada. Seems that “Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May.”
Here is full press release:
April 14, 2010
Apple Media Advisory
Apple today released the following statement:
Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.
Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason—the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far.
Press Contacts:
Natalie Harrison
Apple
harri@apple.com
(408) 862-0565
Natalie Kerris
Apple
nat@apple.com
(408) 974-6877
Really Apple??? Well it means that come “late April” I’m traveling across the board to get my hands on 3G Model from Uncle Sam.
Apple today has released much anticipated upgrade to it’s MacBook Pros line-up.
Along with CPU upgrade to Core i5 and Core i7, upgraded GPU to Nvidia GT330M there is new battery spanning it’s life up to 10hrs !!! on MacBook Pro 13″.
Canadian prices seems to be reduced to $1,249 for 13″ model, $1,849 for 15″ and $2,349 for 17″
Insider’s prices are $1,174 for 13″, $1,738 for 15″ and $2,161 for 17″ (contact me to get this pricing for you)
Here is a set of photos courtesy of Engadget from iPhone OS 4 Preview Event, video from Apple coming soon.
In short, there is: multitasking, folders to organize your applications and get a hold of multiple screens. New features in Mail including: unified Inbox, multiple Exchange accounts, threaded messages and ability to open files in apps.
I must say multitasking looks pretty sleek and hopefully will not drain battery as my iPhone used all my battery by the end of F5-Expo yesterday.
Update: Apple has published Keynote and OS 4 web page Other features include: when emailing image, one can now select on whatever they want to send reduced size image or full resolution. Addition of Places and Faces albums and rotation in Photo app.
Engadget has a story about Scrabble App for iPad and Tile Rack App for iPhones. All three devices, once tethered, become old school Scrabble game.
From Engadget:
We just paired up a couple iPhones (running the free Tile Rack app) and joined in with the iPad over Bluetooth or WiFi (the app makes it unclear as to which particular wireless tech is doing the honors at the moment, but both work) and in moments we were swiping tiles up to the iPad with the best of them.
As I already wrote about some iPad’s applications (not to confuse with apps) as Point-of-Sale system at one of the California’s coffees shops, there are new and even more exciting projects surface.
One of them is installation by SoundMan Audio of iPad into truck’s dashboard as a multimedia centre. This idea is not new, there was a case (could not find original version from HardMac.com) when Mac Mini was installed into Audi.
Now would it be nice if Apple worked with some car manufacturers to incorporate this type of technology in the cars at production level. Kind of like the Sync system Microsoft has with Ford.
Gizmodo reports that they have been invited for “for a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software” taking place on April8th at 10am PST.
Apple’s just sent an invite “for a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software” on April 8 at 10AM Pacific. That’s in three days! We’ll be there. Start your predictions now.
I knew even before iPad was released that it will find various applications in real world beside ‘big iPhone’ and book reader.
Here is one of the examples over at Sightglass Coffee Shop in San Francisco. Accompanied by Square headphone jack credit card appliance this business turned ‘big iPhone’ into point-of-sale system.
There will be even more opportunities to incorporate iPad into everyday life of not just business but also consumers. Can’t wait for 3G model…
According to iPad in Canada website, Apple Store employees are advised to not take holidays during weekend of April 24th. Does that mean iPad would be released as promised by Apple ‘late April’ in Canada? I certainly hope so.
If it’s to be released, it would make sense that all three big cell phone providers would jump onboard: Telus, Bell and Rogers. Hopefully they would follow AT&T steps with availabilityof 3G unlimited data plan. On the other side, iPad 3G might not be available in Canada at that time with release sometime later, which will prompt shoppers travel across the board as iPad is not locked to any cell phone provider.
Just a reminder that iPad is to be launched in US this Saturday April 3rd.
I came across this interesting dock idea on Engadget. While there is nothing beyond nice computer rendring of this product, it is rumored to be release at China Sourcing fair happening sometime in April.
While it can charge your iPhone, you can also use it instead of crappy speakerphone and that knob adjusts volume, while mute button is on the top.
No info on pricing nor availability of this “Desk Phone Dock” available yet.
According to Engadget, next version of iPhone, sometimes referred to as iPhone 4G which has nothing to do with 4G as in Sprint 4G, to be called iPhone HD thanks to it’s higher resolution display 960×640 up from 320×480 of the current 3Gs model.
Other features to include:
• Front facing camera
• Apple’s A4 chip (surprise!)
• Multitasking, originally scraped from 3.x version
Engadget also mentions release date to be June 22nd.
Just when as you getting more excited, there is a rumor that there will be Verizon version of the iPhone as well. Only us in Canada don’t really care that much, we have 4 providers to choose from (well, fine, 3 as Fido is Rogers)
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I knew even before iPad was released that it will find various applications in real world beside ‘big iPhone’ and book reader.
