Apple is very important for Pegatron, being one of their main customers. They handle the manufacturing of components for the iPhone 4S and iPad Mini and turns out that business hasn’t been flourishing lately, according to sources from the company. After info that Foxconn has been getting lower revenue because of less demand for Apple products,...
We’re entering the month of May, which means Google I/O is almost here and WWDC 2013 is a month away. We’re preparing to welcome iOS 7.0 and the usual rumors have started and even some supposed leaks from deep inside Apple. The interface of the new iOS is said to be “very, very flat” and even adopts the sense of simplicity from...
A recent note from famous KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that he doesn’t expect the new and improved iPad Mini to enter production until October. This is all because of production issues and keep in mind this is the Retina Display iPad Mini we’re talking about. Yield issues are to blame apparently and they’re caused by the...
J.D. Power and Associates released the most recent study results on customer satisfaction regarding the tablet segment this week and the Apple iPad sits at the top for the second consecutive time. Volume 1 of the J.D Power and Associates 2013 US Tablet Satisfaction, that’s the whole name of the study that came out this week and shows Apple at...
Ever since the days of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, the fine line between guitar playing and gaming hasn’t been explored properly. Now JamStik may give amateur guitar shredders a reason to rejoice. This gadget was shown at CES 2013 and it was a tiny guitar with real strings, about the same size as an ukulele. The thing is that it can connect via...
I just saw Iron Man 3, the movie after reviewing the game in the video below. Well, folks, I gave the game a 7 out of 10 and the movie is a solid 3.5 to be honest. It’s a comedy cop movie, where the robot doesn’t even appear as often as we’d like… Back to the game, I tested Iron Man 3 The Official Game on the iPad Mini and while...
With the recent drop in market share in the tablet area, Apple must evolve fast, in order to survive the avalanche of Android tablets. And what better way to do that than investing in R&D? Apple boosted its R&D segment by spending 33% more in the second quarter of 2013 than it did in Q2 2013. The information comes from a quarterly report filed...
As usual with each quarter start, we find out the previous quarter’s results and it’s Strategy Analytics with the details this time. Android and Windows are coming strong from behind. The total number of tablets shipped in Q1 has reached 40.6 million. That’s over double the 18.7 million amount from the same quarter in 2012. That’s...
If you want a Retina display on a PC, you may want to purchase a new MacBook Pro for that and pay $1,200+ on it, or do what the guy we will tell you about did. He pulled apart an iPad and built a Retina Display for his PC using the parts. Polish hacker Andrzej is behind this and he took advantage of the eDisplayPort interface on the iPad’s Retina...
We’ve heard contradicting reports on the iPad 5 so far, but today’s statements made by KGI Securites analyst Ming-Chi Kuo cleared the air a bit. We’ve previously found out that the new slate was going to launch this month, but it appears that it will come this fall after all. It would make sense for Apple to keep a recently established...
