Tech giant Apple sold 15.4 million iPads in the last quarter, even exceeding analysts' expectations of 13 million units, according to the company's fiscal report released Tuesday.
Now that the iPad 3 has a tentative release date set for early March, rumors abound about the best specs, the coolest features and the biggest upgrades slated for Apple's new tablet. Here's a rundown of everything we know (and what's been proved false) so far, from increased battery power to 4G LTE connectivity and a higher display resolution.
Nearly one million people have jailbroken their iPad 2 and iPhone 4S devices since Friday thanks to a recently released untethered jailbreak, according to a report.
Apple Inc's quarterly results blew past Wall Street's expectations as U.S. consumers snapped up near-record numbers of iPhones and iPads, sending its shares up 8 percent.
Evi Artificial Intelligence from True Knowledge is the latest creation in voice-activated personal assistants and some say it is better than Siri due to the exactness of its answers. Evi was launched on Monday for iOS devices in the Apple App Store and as a beta for Android smartphones.
The battery drain issue can be fixed with a little help.
All about the Simsimi iPhone and Android conversation app that has the world laughing through the use of artificial intelligence
The launch of the iBooks 2 app further substantiates expectations that Apple may put a quad-core chipset in the iPad 3, which is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2012.
The tweak is free of cost.
Absinthe, the latest untethered jailbreak, created specifically for Apple devices running iOS 5.0.1, is all set to open a new world full of tweaks for you.
The lines are drawn in the debate over whether the Simsimi or Siri app is the better conversationalist.
The Simsimi app offers many crazy conversations to have on your iPhone and Android.
It has been only a day since Absinthe, the untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S, was released. Nevertheless, there is already an array of tweaks available.
Acer debuted the Iconia Tab A510 at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, and the 10-inch device is of the quad-core system variety, but it should debut for a few dollars less than the iPad 3.
Siri, the virtual intelligent assistant exclusive to iPhone 4S, will be improved and packed into most future Apple devices, if not all. Predictably, the voice-controlled technology might become a core part of the Apple brand.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had once sworn to fight Google's Android with his last dying breath and every penny Apple had in the bank as the creative tech genius believed the rival has committed a grand theft of the iPhone's operating system. However, another Steve in Apple, and ironically, a co-founder of the tech giant, feels Apple has a lot to learn from Android phones.
A Chinese case maker has reportedly begun selling cases for the expected iPad 3 to be launched this year.
In October 2011, Intelliborn introduced the jailbreak solution known as IntelliScreenX, and is only for devices running iOS 5.0 and above. Now apparently the word is the IntelliScreenX jailbreak also works with the Apple iPad 2.
Jailbreaking your iPhone for Siri can be a bad card to play.
Apple is planning an event in February to announce the release of the next-generation iPad according to Japanese blog Macotakara.
The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, which is almost similar in specifications to the Droid Razr, was released at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and boasts, as the highlight of its specs sheet, a much-improved battery back-up capability.
Apple once again didn't show up to International CES this year, but Lenovo debuted dozens of products, and their new IdeaTab S2 is the kind of tablet meant to cut into iPad 3 sales later this year.
