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Arrington, Mossberg and Carr discuss the Apple iPad [Video]
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On Thursday’s night Charlie Rose show featured an interesting discussion with Michael Arrington, Walt Mossberg and David Carr about the upcoming Apple iPad.
Michael Arrington is known as the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch. Walt Mossberg writes 2 columns for the Wall Street Journal. David Carr works as a culture and media columnist for the New Your Times. The 25 minutes long coverage reveals some interesting opinions that are worth to hear:
Videos of popular iPhone games running on the Apple iPad
SlideToPlay published several interesting videos where popular games are shown on the iPad in action. You can see games like Need for Speed Shift, Super Monkey Ball 2 and NOVA played on the big screen. Some of them are optimized for the bigger resolution, others are just a 2x bigger rendering of the exact same iPhone game you can buy now.
The titles of the first movie are Assassin’s Creed, Sims 3, Tetris, and Paper Toss:
Here’s the video of NOVA:
Google Nexus One now supports Multi-Touch
Google released a software update for Android-based Nexus One smartphones. The update offers a number of enhancements, but the most interesting one is a support of the multi-touch technology in phone’s Browser, Gallery and Maps applications. The new functionality is called “pinch-to-zoom”.
Google previously had an agreement with Apple, that Android OS would not support multi-touch in the U.S. Now it looks like all the agreements are gone.
Engadget posted a video of the Nexus One’s pinch-to-zoom functionality:
Skype iPhone app will support 3G calls
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Once Apple began allowing VoIP over 3G we can now expect this functionality to apper in real iPhone applications. Fring already implemented it. Skype has announced via it’s blog that a new version of Skype app for iPhone will support 3G calling:
You may have seen other apps offering calls over 3G, but we’re holding ours back for a little bit longer. Why? So that we can give you the very best audio quality we can. When our 3G-capable Skype for iPhone app is released, it’ll let you make calls in wideband audio, giving you greater clarity and fidelity – because that’s what you expect from Skype.
Watch the video for more details:
Patrick Stewart told how he loves his iPhone
Yesterday Patrick Steward gave an interview to PBS in its new broadcast premiere.
Sir Patrick Stewart, widely known for his roles of Charles Xavier in the X-Men films and Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek says he loves complexity. So Twitter with its 140 characters long messages is too simplistic to use. But then in his interview to Frontline’s Digital Nation he suddenly starts to talk about iPhone and dramatically describes an obsessive man-love for it as “An extension of who I am”.
It really looks like Jean-Luc Picard by himself arrived from the future to tell us about modern technology and the new way to understand it. Let’s watch:
More fun about iPad
Every Apple’s device has been embraced by pop culture sooner or later, and we have to admit the iPad is already one of the most popular devices.
Here is a Parry Gripp’s latest tune about the iPad, which represents an idea of how successful this device will likely be: we can argue about which kinds of nachos are ruling, but we can all agree nachos in general are awesome.
How to turn the iPhone into the iPad
The specialists from RedmondPie made a video showing how to turn the interface of the iPhone into that of an iPad. They used simple packages that are already available via Cydia (for jailbroken iPhone).
Everything is very simple, just follow these steps:
- Install Winterboard from Cydia.
- Install the Winterboard theme “Simple iPad Theme” from Cydia.
- Install MakeItMine from Cydia. This utility is needed to change the Carrier name to “iPad”.
- Download the application Shrink to reduce the size of the icons.
- Install NYTimes, Classics and Kindle applications from AppStore.
The result is shown on the photo above!
Here is a full instructional video:
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iPad at the Grammy Awards [Video]
Can you believe it? Stephen Colbert pulled out an iPad at the Grammy Awards to find his list of nominees for the Song of the Year:
“I’m sorry where’s the list. Oh, I know! It’s on my iPad. Jay-z, did you not get one of these in your gift bag? Am I cooler than you? Hunnie, Hunnie, does this make me look cool?”
Congratulations to Apple, that was cool! Take a look at the video:
Apple Opens Official YouTube Channel, Posts iPad Video and Keynote
Apple has finally opened an YouTube Channel. Now all users can easily watch and embed official Apple videos.
There are total 5 videos avaliable right now – the iPad video and the entire Keynote split into 4 videos. All the videos are avaliable in high quality (HD 720p):
Introducing the iPad:
Steve Jobs: iPad to offer 9.99$ e-books, Word support and 140 hours of music
After the iPad presentation on Wednesday Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal journalist, had a conversation with Steve Jobs who revealed interesting information about the new product.
Books for the iPad were rumored to cost between $13 and $15, and Mossberg asked, why customers will purchase books on this price if Amazon charges only $9.99. Jobs answered: “The prices will be the same”.
Later Mossberg inquired Steve whether he can use Pages application to write his review and then send it to his editors in the Microsoft Word format, as his colleagues doesn’t know anything about Pages. Jobs told that the mobile version of Pages allows saving files as Word documents.
The journalist also asked about battery life on the device, and Jobs answered that iPad offers 140 hours of music playback with the screen off or 10 hours of reading. It seems not so much in the comparison with e-books, but Jobs revealed that 10 hours is enough, as nobody reads for 10 hours, and plugging the device or docking it in the end is “not a big deal”.
Apple Posts “Come see our latest creation” Keynote Streaming Video

Apple has posted their usual streaming QuickTime video of “Come see our latest creation” iPad introduction keynote. It will probably apper soon on Youtube and a downloadable higher resolution version will be avaliable quite soon. But if you just have to watch it now here’s the link:
Apple iPad hands on video from CNet
Here is an Apple iPad hands on video from CNet specialist Brian Tong. He actually finds some functionality that Apple didn’t show at the keynote. Let’s watch:
Here is another CNet iPad video, made right after the keynote:
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First Apple iPad Video
Here is the first video of Apple iPad that was announced just couple hours ago. It is made by engadget specialists and shows the tablet in action. Let’s watch:
Google Voice Arrives on iPhones with HTML5-Powered Webapp
Apple rejected Google Voice native application for iPhone. Now Google is launching a new version of mobile web app for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher. It uses the power of HTML5, so users can run it right from the Safari browser.
To get started, just visit in your mobile browser. For quick access, just create a shortcut to this URL on your home screen.
Latest Apple Tablet rumors: 2 photos and 2 videos
There is only one day left until Apple’s event on Jan 27, where Apple Tablet is expected to be presented. The number of rumors thow grow rapidly. There are discussions about the name, the price, specifications and much more.
Here are two images published on TechCrunch:
The photos are really well done. In previous rumors we have heard that the tablet should have a shape similar to that of the iPhone and a Home button. How Apple Tablet will actually look like? Nobody knows yet.
In addition to the photos here are couple videos, which look like fake, but a very good one.
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