If you’ve been holding out for a iPad mini with a retina display, you won’t have to wait much longer. According to a statement by NPD DisplaySearch to CNET this morning, Apple will start mass producing Retina iPad minis later in the year, and as a bonus, it’ll have one of the highest tablet resolutions currently on the market.
According to Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, they’ll enter production around June or July. Shim also made sure to point out that Apple’s chief competitor Samsung won’t be involved in the creation of the new devices; instead, LG Display will be the largest supplier, followed by a number of other manufacturers.
“Samsung is currently not in the iPad mini and they won’t be in the next generation,” Shim said. “LGD is becoming a much bigger supplier than before.”
With a resolution of 2,048 x 1,526, the 7.9 inch Retina iPad mini will deliver roughly the same amount of pixels per inch as the iPhone 5, although with a greater pixel density. Shim said. Still, Shim expressed his concerns that differences between displays become indiscernible to the human eye around 300 PPI, but points out that Apple and Google both are on track to produce tablets with similar resolutions.
As MacRumors points out, this must be one of the new great products that Tim Cook said we’ll be seeing “”in the fall and across all of 2014.”
If you’ve been holding out for a iPad mini with a retina display, you won’t have to wait much longer. According to a statement by NPD DisplaySearch to CNET this morning, Apple will start mass producing Retina iPad minis later in the year, and as a bonus, it’ll have one of the highest tablet resolutions currently on the market.
According to Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, they’ll enter production around June or July. Shim also made sure to point out that Apple’s chief competitor Samsung won’t be involved in the creation of the new devices; instead, LG Display will be the largest supplier, followed by a number of other manufacturers.
“Samsung is currently not in the iPad mini and they won’t be in the next generation,” Shim said. “LGD is becoming a much bigger supplier than before.”
With a resolution of 2,048 x 1,526, the 7.9 inch Retina iPad mini will deliver roughly the same amount of pixels per inch as the iPhone 5, although with a greater pixel density. Shim said. Still, Shim expressed his concerns that differences between displays become indiscernible to the human eye around 300 PPI, but points out that Apple and Google both are on track to produce tablets with similar resolutions.
As MacRumors points out, this must be one of the new great products that Tim Cook said we’ll be seeing “”in the fall and across all of 2014.”
Amidst rumors that CEO Marissa Meyer is trying to get a little more Yahoo! on iOS devices, the company has released an update to its existing Mail app for iPad support as well as a standalone Weather app.
Yahoo! announced the debut of two new iOS offerings on Thursday, with the first coming as welcome news to iPad and iPad mini owners.
The free, official Yahoo! Mail app is now universal, bringing native iPad and iPad mini support for the company’s dedicated email client. The app also adds a new full-screen “Reading Mode” for displaying messages in a magazine style and several advanced options for acting upon messages.
Perhaps the more curious offering is a new Yahoo! Weather app for iPhone. While the screenshots look quite slick, Yahoo! already powers the data behind Apple’s own built-in Weather app, so we’re not quite sure why Meyer and Company would feel the need to write a dedicated app for this purpose.
Be that as it may, Yahoo! Weather looks to be a pretty stylized solution, with big, bold photographs that match a user’s location, time of day and even current weather conditions. The app can even be used to submit new photos to Yahoo’s Project Weather on Flickr, which is a neat idea.
The newly-universal Yahoo! Mail and iPhone-only Yahoo! Weather are now available from the App Store and require iOS 5.0 or later.
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Amidst rumors that CEO Marissa Meyer is trying to get a little more Yahoo! on iOS devices, the company has released an update to its existing Mail app for iPad support as well as a standalone Weather app.
Yahoo! announced the debut of two new iOS offerings on Thursday, with the first coming as welcome news to iPad and iPad mini owners.
The free, official Yahoo! Mail app is now universal, bringing native iPad and iPad mini support for the company’s dedicated email client. The app also adds a new full-screen “Reading Mode” for displaying messages in a magazine style and several advanced options for acting upon messages.
Perhaps the more curious offering is a new Yahoo! Weather app for iPhone. While the screenshots look quite slick, Yahoo! already powers the data behind Apple’s own built-in Weather app, so we’re not quite sure why Meyer and Company would feel the need to write a dedicated app for this purpose.
Be that as it may, Yahoo! Weather looks to be a pretty stylized solution, with big, bold photographs that match a user’s location, time of day and even current weather conditions. The app can even be used to submit new photos to Yahoo’s Project Weather on Flickr, which is a neat idea.
The newly-universal Yahoo! Mail and iPhone-only Yahoo! Weather are now available from the App Store and require iOS 5.0 or later.
Follow this article’s author, J.R. Bookwalter on Twitter
Remember the netbook? If you head to a warehouse club store, you can occasionally still spot them available for sale, but at least one research firm claims the end is nigh for the little notebooks that could(n’t).
AllThingsD is reporting that the iPad has effectively neutered any hope of a resurgence in netbooks, the mini-laptops that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once famously claimed weren’t “better at anything.”
According to new research data rom IHS iSuppli, the netbook may not quite be dead, but its day appears to be coming in 2015. While netbooks reached their peak in 2010 with 32 million units shipped, that number is estimated to plummet to only 3.97 million this year — a staggering 72 percent drop from the 14.13 million shipped last year.
Not-so coincidentally, 2010 was also the year the iPad was introduced — and if that alone didn’t contribute to the steep decline, the flood of Android-based imitators who soon followed certainly did.
Of course, netbook makers still have 2014 to look forward to, which is expected to drop even further to around 250,000 units shipped before finally sliding off the cliff entirely in 2015.
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(Image courtesy of AllThingsD and IHS iSuppli)
