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ducktape · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:44 pm

The iPad3 is currently being announced.

Engadget is liveblogging, if you'd like to follow along at home:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/07/appl ... -liveblog/

Looks nice. Same price. Time for me to upgrade from the iPad 1.

listeme · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:43 pm

I like what I see. I'll probably upgrade as well (soonishly).

ducktape · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:19 pm

I'm happy to see that they're keeping the iPad2 and just dropping the price by $100. Wish it were by $200, lol, but I'm glad they're doing that.

BillTheCat · **Joined:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:25 pm **Posts:** 1452

listeme wrote:

I like what I see. I'll probably upgrade as well (soonishly).

Yeh same for me but no rush since it isn't all that different. The better resolution is nice, better camera is ok (Seriously, who uses their tablet to go take pics - pretty unwieldy imo. I think I've used my iPad camera like - twice? With everything having cameras now, this is really only going to be helpful to those who actually use FaceTime)... and of course faster (A5X) is always good. However, it's not thinner or lighter than the previous version.

That said, I'm feeling far less pull to run right out and get one, it's not at all like the big jump from the iPad 1 to the 2 (I pre-ordered both at the time).

Adelante · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:04 pm

Looking good. TPM has a roundup of features.

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4G LTE
The fifth new iPad feature was one widely anticipated: Support for new high-speed wireless 4G LTE networks, supporting data transmission at a blistering fast 73 megabits per second, compared to 7.2 using HSPA networks on the iPad 2. Verizon and AT&T were named among the carrier companies that will offer 4G LTE networks for the new iPad, although there was some speculation if the arrangement would entail two devices with separate internal hardware, as the two networks are not the same from a technical standpoint.

The new iPad runs on an A5X chip and quad-core graphics processor, compared to the iPad 2’s A5 processor and dual core graphics chip. Actual speed increases weren’t given, but Apple said it was four times faster than the iPad 2.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:09 am

No word about the rumored IOS 6.0. My iPad 1 installed IOS 5.1 automatically last night, which may have something to do with the announcement of the iPad 3. The $499 price zooms to $829 with 64GB and 4G.

Apple's site on iPad 3 mostly focuses on the Retina display.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:30 am

I don't see anything that would make me rush out and get one over the iPad 2. My next purchase is a true Kindle (not the Fire).

Adelante · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:46 pm

Wall Street Journal

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U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers: Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing

The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.

Several of the parties have held talks to settle the antitrust case and head off a potentially damaging court battle, these people said. If successful, such a settlement could have wide-ranging repercussions for the industry, potentially leading to cheaper e-books for consumers. However, not every publisher is in settlement discussions.

The five publishers facing a potential suit are CBS Corp.'s Simon & Schuster Inc.; Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group; Pearson PLC's Penguin Group (USA); Macmillan, a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH; and HarperCollins Publishers Inc., a unit of News Corp. , which also owns The Wall Street Journal.

Spokespeople for the five publishers and the Justice Department declined to comment. Apple, which introduced a new version of its iPad tablet Wednesday, declined to comment.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:16 pm

A book by David Maraniss, the author of a new biography of President Obama, is a good example of the perverse nature of pricing of e-books. Maraniss is the author of They Marched Into Sunlight. The Kindle edition is $13.99. Amazon says:

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Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
This price was set by the publisher

New hardcover is $13.04; new paperback is $6.80.

One major academic publisher offers such a deal if you adopt their e-book textbook for a really large class. They require that you use only their products; no other supplements may be used except for those they provide at additional cost to students. The price for one of their more popular texts as an e-book is $50.63, but the full package costs the student $96.00.

Adelante · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:59 pm

The Kindle price for the new Obama biography is $16.99 set by Simon and Schuster. Just outrageous. I'll buy it, but it really pisses me off.

Plutodog · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:37 am

Adelante wrote:

The Kindle price for the new Obama biography is $16.99 set by Simon and Schuster. Just outrageous. I'll buy it, but it really pisses me off.

Why not go for this instead for only $8.99 (Amazon) on Kindle?

Obama's book won't always be so expensive.

Adelante · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:05 pm

I thought Tolland might get a kick out of this bit in the New Yorker. The story is about a book scout going all over to book sales:

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“You can tell if it’s going to be a good sale by how people phrase their ad,” Pernu says, peering over his thick-framed glasses at the computer screen. At fifty-one, he has dark, slightly receding hair and a taste for vintage clothing, like the snap-up Western shirt and neon-orange Converse sneakers he’s wearing today. “If it says something like ‘Treasures’ you know it’s going to be a lot of junk,” he muses. “If it says, ‘Student moving to Hawaii, lots of good books—philosophy,’ it’s going to be good. And if you want all the good book people to come, you say, ‘Professor died.’ ”

Highlands · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:59 pm

My son dropped my iPad and cracked the shit out of the glass. :((

The touchscreen still works, but it's hard to read the display and I want to get it fixed before it gets worse. Of course, the iPad is a couple months out of warranty. Any thoughts? No one around here is Apple certified to fix iPad and I want to find somewhere reputable to send it. Apple wants like $250 for a refurbished one.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:02 pm

Adelante wrote:

Quote:

...And if you want all the good book people to come, you say, ‘Professor died.’ ”

How will this work when the perfesser has all his books on a Kindle?

ducktape · **Posted:** Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:25 pm

So the doorbell rang about 90 minutes ago, and it was UPS with the new iPad, about a week earlier than they had guaranteed it. Yay! But as I'm setting it up and trying things out, I went to post to this thread and saw this:

Attachment:

weird-safari.jpg

See all those ab ab behind the links to preformatted BBcode? I'm not seeing that on my iPad 1. I looked at the Safari on both iPads and all the settings were the same. So then I took them both to a browser ID page we set up for testing, and the browsers report identical ID strings.

It appears to be the ab from the "remove all BBcodes from selected text" but as you see, it starts up above that link and repeats through the background. I'm using proSilver Special Edition.

It's not something I can't work around, but I'm finding it most interesting -- there are differences in the iPad Safaris, apparently, even when they say they're the same.

Foggy · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:55 am

I've never seen anything like that. Is there an Apple store nearby? Maybe they can help you out.

Worse comes to worse, I can remove that ab. All it does is strip the BBCodes off your selection, not the most valuable button on the BBCodes list.

Foggy · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:09 am

For what it's worth, I took a class with 40 other IT professionals yesterday over by the airport in the La Quinta Inn.

One guy had an iPad. All the other pros brought laptops or them leetle teeny laptops, I guess you call 'em notebooks. Anyway, I feel better about deciding against an iPad last summer.

Or I would, anyway, if'n ol' Wifehorn hadn't decided she needed my new laptop for her job.

Curious Blue · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:58 am

Foggy wrote:

One guy had an iPad. All the other pros brought laptops or them leetle teeny laptops, I guess you call 'em notebooks.(

Netbooks.

I have one & use it when I am traveling. It does a great job but I find it difficult to work with smaller keyboard & the screen is too small, so next time around I'll go for a more compact laptop. I'd consider a tablet but I think that I need the functionality that a keyboard provides.

My daughter did fine with a netbook for several years. Traipsed all around Europe & the mideast & who knows where else with it. (I've given up trying to keep track of daughter's travels. Name a country, odds are she's been there.) Anyway.... it was great for her ... I think the netbooks are designed for young people with very skinny fingers & sharp eyes.

Foggy · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2012 7:05 am

Curious Blue wrote:

Netbooks.

That's right, netbooks. Thank you.

Quote:

... I think the netbooks are designed for young people with very skinny fingers & sharp eyes.

The guy sitting next to me had one. He was an inch taller than me at 6'3", and his hands were larger than mine with unusually long fingers, and he was having no problems. I think you just have to practice with 'em until you get familiar, which I have never done. Hell, I have trouble with a laptop keyboard and a touch pad. When I travel, I always bring a USB mouse and regular keyboard, and disable the touch pad.

I need a big screen too, with these old eyes.

ducktape · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:50 am

Well I just found something new in the new iPad. Text-to-speech. To make this post, I just set it. And actually I did find one issue. I didn't just set it, I just said it. It hasn't learned my accent yet.

Nevertheless this entire post was made by voice.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:09 pm

With the Dragon Dictation app you can do speech to text on the iPad 2. That's how I recorded this post. It did require some minor editing.

majorbabs · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:55 pm

Reality Check wrote:

With the Dragon Dictation app you can do speech to text on the iPad 2. That's how I recorded this post. It did require some minor editing.

I tried the Dragon software once. It was more trouble than it was worth to edit out all the ums, changing the sentence -- mid-sentence, and so on. I've try tape recorders and similar devices in the past and my mind seems to go blank. Once I discovered word processing, I was hooked because I seem to have a better grasp of what to say as I saw it appear in print before me. The only draw back for me is when I'm on a roll, I think faster than I can type and I'll find the right phrase I want to use -- and then have it fly right out of my mind before I can get it down on paper. ](*,)

What I need is a computer to read my mind when I doing a project and my mind is working at warp speed.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:00 pm

I think it depends on how good a typist you are. I am just fair at touch typing. I do not use the speech to text much on the iPad. On the iPhone it is more advantageous because of the tiny keypad.

DT
How do you like the new display on the iPad 3?

ducktape · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:08 pm

Reality Check wrote:

I think it depends on how good a typist you are. I am just fair at touch typing. I do not use the speech to text much on the iPad. On the iPhone it is more advantageous because of the tiny keypad.

DT
How do you like the new display on the iPad 3?

It is stunningly gorgeous. I also got an iPad4S last week, and it is as well, although I never complained about the original displays. The iPhone also has the mike & TTS built into its keyboard.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:28 am

If you have the "new iPad" (AKA iPad 3), have you been experiencing
a) problems with WiFi connectivity that can be resolved by rebooting?
b) very short battery life?
c) battery drain even when the tablet is said to be charging?
d) a very long time to charge the battery?
e) an inaccurate battery charge indicator?

The problems are said to involve software for connectivity and the Retina display and software for the battery.

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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