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'The New iPad'

Well, its finally here. On Wednesday 7th March Apple finally announced the ‘New iPad’ after months of speculation of when their next release would be. Perhaps the most memorable thing about this release is the name; not the iPad 3, not the iPad HD, simply: ‘The New iPad’. This has led to a lot of speculation of what will come after this release because after all, you can’t name the next iPad the iPad 4 if you haven’t given this one a name. Industry experts such as the guys over at Twit.tv were quoted on their live show suggesting that Apple are preparing to bring out a smaller ebook reader version of the iPad to compete with companies such as Amazon having made the Kindle.

To summarize the new iPad: It has a new 9.7-inch retina display which it boasts on its website as ‘Resolutionary’. It says it has ‘Four times more pixels than iPad 2, Razor-sharp text and Richer colors. The Retina display transforms the entire iPad experience. So everything looks and feels incredibly lifelike and perfectly detailed.’

It also has an A5X chip with quad-core graphics which drives four times the pixels of iPad 2, 10 hours of battery life despite the new display, 4G LTE which is ‘Built with the latest in wireless technology. The new iPad lets you connect to fast data networks around the world — up to 4G LTE.’, Dictation, iCloud, Airplay and the new iPad smart cover.

For an interactive tour of The New iPads features visit: http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/

OR tweet us @onestopsupport and we’ll be happy to answer any iPad/Other IT related problems!

Will there ever be a better tablet that the iPad? Samsung’s was close but were sued as they were too similar to the famous iPad and HP’s TouchPad was a complete flop. HP decided to axe their tablet within a few months after it was released, hardly a best seller!

HP – a well-known and reliable technology company, providing us all with both hardware and software. So when they decided to buy Palm in 2010, they were sure that everyone would own one of their handsets/tablets. CEO of the company, Leo Apotheker was convinced that webOS would be on all HP PC’s by 2012. It’s not quite 2012 yet, but it’s obvious that his prediction was wrong. Looking at UK figures, their TouchPad sold a mere 100 units in comparison to the iPad and iPad 2 which sold out within their release week! Not quite the results they were expecting.

The question remains, where have HP gone from there? After losing billions, they decided to slash the price of the TouchPad, which of course increased sales but not enough to make a profit from the tablet. The poor sales made it easier for HP to decide what to do. The tablet was axed and the future of webOS will be decided upon in December by newly appointed CEO Meg Whitman.

As for actually using webOS, its design is simple and it’s easy to use, aesthetically it’s all hunky dory but when it comes to using it for a while, it is a little slow (a good few seconds) to open an app or file, not something you really want when there are better tablets/handsets for the same-ish price which have a better performance. This is probably something Ms Whitman should consider when reviewing the fate of webOS.

Despite HP’s poor decision to invest in webOS, the company must be doing something right as they are turning over a profit of around $10 billion!! Will Whitman’s decisions be those which produce the next best tablet? We’ll have to see in the coming months!