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The new iPad: Everything you need to know about Apple's 2012 iPad 3rd generation

Everything you need to know about Apple's 2012 iPad

Apple's 3rd generation iPad was announced on March 7, 2012. While the new iPad looks like last year's iPad 2, it has a better screen, processor, optics, and networking that combine to make it an impressive upgrade.

Key features: 2048x1536 264dpi Retina display, Apple A5X processor, 5 megapixel/1080p video iSight camera, HSPA+ 42mbps/LTE 72mbps networking.

Pricing: Wi-Fi $499/16GB, $599/32GB, $699/64GB; Wi-Fi + 3G/LTE $629/16GB, $729/32GB, $829/64GB

Availability: March 16 in the U.S., Australia, Canada, the U.K. and 8 other regions; available March 25 in Italy, Spain, Ireland, Mexico, and 21 other regions

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Untethered jailbreak your iPhone 4S, new iPad and more with Absinthe 2.0 for iOS 5.1.1

By , Friday, May 25, 2012 at 10:31 am
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Absinthe 2.0 has launched and it provides support for a fully unthethered jailbreak under iOS 5.1.1 (and only iOS 5.1.1) for the following devices:

  • iPad, iPad 2, new iPad (except the 2012 iPad 2, which will come later)
  • iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S
  • iPod touch 3, iPod touch 4

Developed by a collaborative "Dream Team" between Chronic-Dev Team and iPhone Dev Team, Absinthe 2.0 and promises to be so easy, your "grandma could do it." Here are the steps:

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Apple tweaks App Store promotions, now shows Editor’s Choice and App of the Week

By , Friday, May 25, 2012 at 10:16 am
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Apple has made some minor changes to the layout of the App Store within iTunes; the same changes are reflected on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. With such a huge number of apps now available in the App Store finding what you are looking has gone from hit and miss to downright daunting. Apple has been rumored to be completely revamping its iTunes software but in the meantime, they're still tweaking what we have now.

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Sir Jonathan Ive receives his knighthood and talks about his love of design

By , Friday, May 25, 2012 at 2:41 am
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Apple's Apple's Senior Vice President of Design, Jonathan Ive deservedly became Sir Jonathan Ive on Wednesday when he received a knighthood for services to design and enterprise. The Princess Royal was on hand to perform the ceremony which hit news channels around the world. After the knighthood ceremony Sir Jonathan Ive attended another high profile function, the Royal Academy of the Arts alongside the Queen. Ive gave a short interview before going inside, telling of his delight at receiving the honor.

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GameFly looking to assist devs with new game development fund

By , Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 3:14 am
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GameFly is looking to branch out into mobile gaming but instead of its usual rental model, it is looking to get developers on-board from a much earlier stage. The new initiative would see GameFly becoming the publisher and promoter of a developer’s game.

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Diet Coda for iPad and Coda 2 for Mac hit the App Store

By , Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 12:53 am
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The highly anticipated FTP client, code editor, CSS editor, and previewer, Diet Coda for iPad has hit the App Store. Now you can make quick edits to your website while on the go or on vacation.

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Photo Stream helping user track down her stolen iPhone

By , Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 10:59 am
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A stolen iPhone is helping its owner close the net on the thief thanks to Apple's iCloud Photo Stream. We assume that Find My iPhone was either not enabled, or was disabled by the thief, but it seems the thief was unaware that Photo Stream was running and cataloging every photograph

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Motion Math: Wings for iPad review

By , Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 4:37 am
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Motion Math: Wings is an iPad game with the focus of increasing conceptual understanding of multiplication. The goal is simple, tilt your iPad to guide the flying bird to the biggest number.

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Bejeweled HD for iPad review

By , Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 4:05 am
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The classic and terribly addicting game Bejeweled by PopCap has made it's way onto the iPad. Bejeweled Blitz has been available on the iPad for quite some time, but the new Bejeweled HD offers 4 games modes: Classic, Butterflies, Diamond Mine, and Zen.

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Apple files to ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in U.S.

By , Monday, May 21, 2012 at 11:38 am
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Late last week Apple filed a preliminary injunction against Samsung's flagship tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The move comes shortly after an appeal which partially confirmed that Apple's design patent infringement complaint was valid. This might put just a slight damper on the settlement talks Apple and Samsung had scheduled for today. Apple proposed to give Samsung until May 25 (this Friday) to respond.

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Untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak will reportedly arrive in a matter of days, support the new iPad [Updated]

By , Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 4:44 pm
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The untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak should be released in just a matter of days according to a tweet by pod2g. Many people have been eagerly awaiting an untethered jailbreak for the latest version of iOS 5.1.1. It has taken a while for it to even look possible never mind become available.

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Apple announces its iTunes Festival line up, watch live performances on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

By , Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 4:45 am
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Apple has just announced its line up for the annual iTunes Festival. The event which first started in 2007 has been hugely popular as all of the tickets are given away free of charge. The live concerts all take place at London’s The Roundhouse and it all kicks off on September 1st and goes on until September 30th.

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Cuboid for iPhone review

By , Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 2:57 am
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Cuboid is a fun 3D puzzle game for the iPhone and iPad of flipping and rolling a cuboid through a maze-like puzzle placed in the setting of mystic, ancient ruins.

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How to have a video chat with your Android and BlackBerry friends and family

By , Friday, May 18, 2012 at 11:53 pm
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You’ve got the new iPad, you have tried out your front facing camera with FaceTime, but now you realize that many of your friends don’t live in the iOS world. So, how can you video chat with your BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Phone friends?

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Blogshelf II for iPad review

By , Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 3:39 pm
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Blogshelf II is the successor to Bloglshelf, a uniques RSS and blog reader for the iPad. Imagine iBooks filled with blogs -- that's Blogshelf. It's a gorgeous and relaxing way to stay caught up with your favorite websites.

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Stunt Pear for iPhone and iPad review: a fun physics puzzle game

By , Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 9:27 pm
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Stunt Pear is a physics-based puzzle game where you catapult a cute little pear to smash, bounce, and spin your way through 144 levels. The objective is easy, get the pear in the barrel -- but that's easier said than done with gears, cannons, bubbles, tires, pinball bumpers, skateboards, and shopping carts as obstacles.

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Best free iPad games

By , Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 12:27 pm
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Looking for the very best free games for your iPad? Whether it's strategy, shooter, sports, casual, physics, action, role-playing, racing, word, or sims, iMore has carefully collected dozens of our favorite free iPad App Store games and listed them below for your playing pleasure.

We'll be updating the list regularly, and adding new games and new categories, so bookmark this page and check back often!

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Cutest Paw for iPhone and iPad review: thousands of adorable animal photos at your fingertips

By , Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 12:04 pm
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Animal lovers, Cutest Paw for iPhone and iPad is for you! It's a fun app that's filled with thousands of photos of cute animals ranging from the common household pet to exotic animals like tigers, orangutans, pandas, and foxes.

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Apple rumored to be slowing down current iPhone production ahead of next generation

By , Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 11:50 am
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Right on schedule, the reports of Apple slowing down current generation iPhone production are hitting the internet. Just like parts leaks, case leaks, and all types of rumors, production reports are one of the signposts we all must pass coming down the long road to a new Apple product release, and this year certainly won't be any different. At least not now that Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu has claimed Apple has cut back on its iPhone manufacturing between 20% and 25% since last quarter.

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Apple renames iPad Wi-Fi + 4G to less controversial iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular

By , Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 6:05 pm
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Apple.com no longer shows a product called iPad Wi-Fi + 4G, and has instead renamed it the less internationally controversial iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular.

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iMore Picks of the Week for May 12, 2012

By , Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 1:35 pm
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Every week the editors at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week's selections include a jailbreak app to manage off-device media, a sheet music app, an app for social networking, a video player that lets you watch old-school movies, and a popular virtual pinboarding app.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

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iCloud.com development site reveals Notes and Reminders web apps

By , Friday, May 11, 2012 at 3:00 pm
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Earlier today a beta version of iCloud.com accidentally leaked 2 new web apps, Notes and Reminders, presumably coming to iCloud web-portal. These apps make perfect sense to be on iCloud.com,

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iPhone snags top spot in Japan with 30% market share

By , Friday, May 11, 2012 at 11:12 am
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Research firm MMRI has tallied up local mobile sales for 2011 and figured that iPhone has claimed 30% of Japan's smartphone market with 7.3 million units, making it the most popular individual brand of the bunch. In the overall mobile landscape of Japan, iPhone claimed 17% share, which is second only to Fujitsu.

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Brooklyn Tap House using the iPad and iPod touch for point of sale system

By , Friday, May 11, 2012 at 9:27 am
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The Brooklyn Tap House is now using a new point of sale system that incorporates both iPads and iPod touches. The Brooklyn Tap House has one of the most extensive ale choices of any establishment that I have seen and now they can all be accessed and ordered using an iPad or iPod touch.

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Etcher iPad case turns your iPad into a fully functioning Etch A Sketch

By , Friday, May 11, 2012 at 4:56 am
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A new case has landed on Kickstarter that looks to take your iPad back in time and turn it into a fully functional Etch A Sketch. In case you have already forgotten or are simply not old enough to remember, the Etch A Sketch was launched in the 1960’s was a small tablet like slab with two knobs; one on each side.

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Svpply for iPhone and iPad review: shop from a collection of the world's best products

By , Friday, May 11, 2012 at 4:28 am
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Svpply offers fun, beautiful, and social way to shop from a a curated collection of products and stores from around the world from your iPhone and iPad. Featuring over 70,000 stores and brands and 1.1 million products, a gorgeous UI, and a way to follow what your friends buy and want, Svpply is a shopper's dream come true.

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