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Apple rolling out new iPad on Friday to South Korea and 11 other countries

2012-04-16T13:47:27Z

Americans, Europeans, and many others have already gotten their hands on the new iPad, and now Apple is bringing it to 21 more countries in the next few weeks. On Friday, April 20th, the iPad will arrive in South Korea, Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St. Maarten, Uruguay, and Venezuela. April 27th will see another round of releases, as the iPad debuts in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa, and Thailand. The tablets will be sold both through Apple's online store and authorized resellers.

Apple's suggested retail prices are the same as what it announced last month, with 16GB Wi-Fi models starting at $499 and 16GB 4G models starting at...

New iPad review (2012)

2012-03-15T00:59:02Z

The moment Tim Cook took the stage and announced the new iPad on March 7th in San Francisco, I immediately started brainstorming on my review for the device. There are clear challenges in comparing generational, iterative products like the iPad — especially when the devices themselves look nearly identical. Looks, of course, are really only half the story with the new iPad (side note: the name is just "iPad," though Apple seems to be using "new" quite liberally). In fact, looks may not be the story at all.

While the device does appear to be physically nearly identical to its predecessor, there are significant changes in the product. For starters, it's boasting that outrageous Retina display — its 9.7-inch screen delivering a...

Apple iPad pre-orders sold out for launch-day delivery

2012-03-09T21:52:41Z

If you're hoping to get your hands on Apple's new iPad on launch day but haven't already ordered, an Apple Store line may be in your future. Cupertino's US online store is now listing a March 19th ship date for all 9 variants of the new Retina Display-equipped slate, a full three days after the device's release. It's an almost expected occurrence at this point, with Apple having run into the same issue with the release of previous iOS devices in recent years. While no specific details have been given on in-store availability or customer limits as of yet, Apple's brick-and-mortar locations have traditionally had stock to sell on a first-come, first-serve basis — but you may want to watch out for any spontaneous Galaxy Note-inspired...

New iPad sold outside US will work on AT&T LTE, Apple confirms

2012-03-09T18:45:06Z

After some earlier confusion, Apple has clarified that buyers of the new iPad outside the US will be able to provision the device on AT&T LTE when they're in the States:

iPads sold internationally will be able to connect to AT&Ts LTE network when in the US with the appropriate SIM and plan.

There'd initially been some question as to which 3G-capable SKU — the AT&T LTE or Verizon LTE model — would be sold in European countries, but it now appears that Verizon's model is a carrier exclusive, at least for the moment. Meanwhile, Europeans traveling to the US will be able to provision their iPads on AT&T's 4G network if they've got access to an appropriate AT&T SIM.

New iPad arriving later than scheduled for some Europeans

2012-03-09T15:43:01Z

We're getting reports out of the UK this morning that the new iPad won't be meeting its scheduled delivery date of March 16th, "despite [Apple's] best efforts and those of [its] shipping partners." Our tipster was told that his updated delivery date is the following Tuesday, March 20th — but a quick search of Twitter suggests that a good number of people are being told the 21st as well. It's unclear exactly what led to the delay; as with many Apple products, it's reasonable to suspect that the company is producing and shipping the iPad at full tilt and it can only fly so many cargo planes out of Hong Kong per day, but that's little consolation to those who've been put on hold.

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Sprint loses out with new iPad, has 'nothing to announce'

2012-03-08T03:34:01Z

As you're no doubt fully aware, Apple has announced a new iPad with support for 3G and 4G LTE networks for Verizon and AT&T in the US. Sprint, however, was left out in the cold. The lack of support was not unexpected, the iPad 2 never came to Sprint despite the fact that Apple does make a version with a CDMA radio. However, the iPad 2 predated the deal to launch the iPhone 4S on Sprint, so it wasn't entirely crazy to think that the new one could have made its way onto the carrier. Sprint is also working on launching its own LTE network and has even has LTE phones announced for later this year, and obviously LTE is an important feature on the new iPad.

So what happened? Sprint's not saying, telling Fierce Wireless only that "Sprint is not...

Nvidia will put Apple's A5X claims to the test, says it's 'pleased' by Tegra 3 comparison

2012-03-08T00:42:21Z

Remember a few hours ago, when Apple claimed its new A5X chip had four times the graphical prowess of Nvidia's Tegra 3? As you might imagine, Nvidia doesn't intend to simply let that be. The graphics firm told ZDNet that without specific benchmarks to back up that claim, "Apple has a very generic statement" right now, but that Nvidia would certainly be purchasing a third-generation iPad on March 16th to test those claims for itself. Citations or no, if the new iPad does indeed have twice the graphical potential of the iPad 2, the "4x" quote might not be too far off in certain applications: AnandTech ran the Tegra 3-powered Transformer Prime against the iPad 2 in a run of GLBenchmark, and found a few performance differences.

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New iPad introduction event video now available online

2012-03-07T20:36:56Z

Well that didn't take long. It's been barely an hour since Apple wrapped up its event introducing the new iPad and a suite of apps to take advantage of that Retina Display — and the company already has video of the event up for streaming online. We're collecting all of our hands-on impressions and videos for you here, but if you'd like to see Tim Cook and company for yourself, you can head over to Apple's own website. If the company stays true to form, you can expect the same video to show up as one of Apple's video podcasts as well.