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Where to buy an iPad on Friday

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 14th, 2012)

If you missed the launch day pre-orders and want to get an iPad on Friday, you should start planning your strategy now. Like any good consumer, you'll need to decide which store will have the most iPads and the smallest line so you can maximize your chances of getting the model that you ...

Faux G: New "4G" indicator on iPhone 4S is the tip of a standards iceberg (Updated)

by Richard Gaywood (Mar 14th, 2012)

Update: See discussion of the ITU's "sliding scale" of 4G below. Commenters have pointed out that since 2010 the standards organization has acknowledged that 3G evolutions can reasonably be called 4G. References to 4G vs. IMT-Advanced have been clarified. In a rare move of capitulation to a ...

New iPad benchmark finds 1 GB RAM

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 13th, 2012)

Earlier today, Vietnamese blog Tinhte.vn released unboxing pictures and a video that supposedly showcases the new iPad. They also did some benchmark tests that suggest the iPad will ship with 1 GB of RAM. Recent reports from The Verge and iOS hacker Chronic claim the iPad had 1 GB of RAM, but ...

AT&T and Verizon officially announce the March 16 availability of the WiFi + 4G iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 13th, 2012)

As expected, AT&T and Verizon both announced today that they will sell the new WiFi+4G iPad starting Friday, March 16. AT&T will sell the iPad through all AT&T sales channels, while Verizon will offer the new iPad at all Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online. The iPad ...

Vietnamese site posts new iPad video, unboxing pictures

by Michael Rose (Mar 13th, 2012)

Not quite sure how it got into the wild ahead of schedule, but Vietnamese sites Tinhte and MuabaniPhone have posted a lovely little video review and unboxing images of the LTE-equipped new iPad model [via our siblings at Engadget]. Spoiler alert: It looks an awful lot like an iPad. While some ...

AT&T to expand LTE network to Cleveland, New Orleans and others

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 12th, 2012)

AT&T is set to blanket twelve new cities with LTE in the next few months. According to several press releases, AT&T will roll out LTE to parts of Ohio (Akron, Canton, and Cleveland), Louisiana (Baton Rouge and New Orleans) and Indiana (Bloomington, Lafayette and Muncie). Individual cities ...

iOS 5.1 adds a 4G indicator for AT&T customers

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 7th, 2012)

iPhone owners on AT&T had a surprise waiting for them when they installed iOS 5.1 today. As noted by The Verge, the 3G label in the status bar was replaced with one for 4G. When the iPhone 4S was released, AT&T said it was pushing Apple to make this change on the iPhone 4S and it appears ...

New iPad models include high-speed LTE networking

by Michael Rose (Mar 7th, 2012)

As widely rumored, the new iPad models (one for Verizon and one for AT&T) announced today will offer several varieties of high-speed cellular wireless networking. iPads sold for use with those two carriers, plus Rogers, Bell and Telus in Canada, will work with an alphabet soup of fast ...

WSJ: Next iPad will have LTE, land on Verizon Wireless

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 7th, 2012)

The Wall Street Journal chimed in with a last minute report on the iPad that'll make Verizon Wireless customers happy. Spencer E. Ante of the Journal writes, "The new iPad will support a wireless broadband technology called LTE, people familiar with the matter have said," and Credit Suisse ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: The quick hit edition

by Erica Sadun (Feb 28th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, How can I move books purchased at the Apple store from my library in my iPad to my drop box so I can share them with my friends? Your loving niece, Jacqueline Dear Jacqueline, You can't. Apple books use FairPlay DRM. Although this protection has been cracked by the Brahms Requiem ...

Thoughts on an LTE iPhone

by Steven Sande (Dec 19th, 2011)

A lot of Apple fans are sure that the next iPhone will support the true 4G LTE networks now being deployed by major cellular carriers. Apple has repeatedly said that the iPhone will get LTE when battery life is not an issue, but the Houston Chronicle's Dwight Silverman notes that if the 4G ...

Apple reportedly working with AT&T to display '4G' in status bar

by Chris Rawson (Oct 7th, 2011)

AT&T is reportedly pressuring Apple to advertise the 14.4 Mbps theoretical maximum download speed of the iPhone 4S as "4G" in the iPhone's status bar. Given AT&T's aggressive attempts to market HSPA+ as 4G, that's not surprising. What is surprising is that according to This is my next, ...

WSJ: upcoming iPhone will not support 4G LTE or WiMAX

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 4th, 2011)

The Wall Street Journal is chiming in with a last-minute rumor suggesting the iPhone will not support 4G LTE or WiMAX. The next generation Apple handset will be a 3G only device similar to the current iPhone 4. This information contradicts a widely circulating rumor from BGR that claimed the ...

Rumor: iPhone 5 supports HSPA+ '4G'

by Steven Sande (Sep 29th, 2011)

Less than one week before Apple's announcement of a new iPhone or two, Japanese blog Macotakara has published a photo of a slide shown by China Unicom during a presentation at Macworld Asia. What's on the slide? Notes about an 'iPhone 5' to be delivered in 2011 that supports the HSPA+ '4G' ...

Apple reportedly gives China Mobile a "positive answer" regarding 4G LTE iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 15th, 2011)

China Mobile has been upfront about its plans for 4G LTE and its desire to have the iPhone on its wireless network. According to Bloomberg, China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou confirmed the wireless carrier has been in talks with Apple about a 4G LTE handset and has received a positive answer. ...