Apple’s new iPad Air is unique in many ways. Not only is it a standard-sized iPad with a new design, it is also thinner and lighter, making it an ideal choice for many tablet users. This may explain why many companies are reporting that they are witnessing more than a 100% rise in the trade-ins of older iPads in favor of the new slate.
Apple’s new iPad Air tablet has been flying right off the shelves. In terms of numbers, iPad Air adoption rate is far greater than the adoption rates of iPad 4 and iPad mini following their launches last year. This has now been revealed by the app marketing service Fiksu.
Apple’s online store and retail locations will be selling the new iPad Air at a price starting from $499. Walmart recently announced that it would offer the slate at $479. This has now been followed by the likes of Best Buy, Target and Staples, announcing that they would match Walmart’s discounted iPad Air prices.
China Telecom has launched a new Samsung Flip phone, SCH-W2014. It is claimed to be the most powerful dual-screen flip phone of Samsung. It has the world’s first quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU.
When launching the new iPad Air slate, Apple claimed that it had significantly improved the battery life of the tablet. In a recent test by folks at Anadtech, iPad Air turned out to last for a whopping 24 hours when used as an LTE personal hotspot.
Every one of us keeps coming up with that Eureka! moment when we realize that we’ve had the next best tech idea. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have time or resources to execute such ideas. Assembly is a new startup which offers to fund and build your idea, if it is good enough, and then pay you for it!
Over the past few years, hackers around the globe have grown increasingly sophisticated. Concerted cyberattacks have been launched against different countries and now, Finland has made it to the list. It has been revealed that the country’s government data network was hit with a ‘severe and large’ hacking attack earlier this year.
We have already covered a few news regarding Hyperloop, a very high-speed transport system that will be able to take us from NY to LA in 45 minutes. However, at beginning, it was named Hyperloop transport system, but now the system has got an official name and gathered some major partners.