Posts Tagged ‘iPad 3G’

Orange Announces UK Data Plans for iPad 3G

Orange has announced pricing for its data service for iPad 3G in the United Kingdom. The announcement came few hours after Apple’s official announcement of international availability of the iPad. Orange does not offer unlimited data packages. Orange’s monthly plans are comparatively higher in price than AT&T’s but offer are more or less flexible in

Nokia Sues Apple Over iPad 3G Patent Infringement

Nokia is reportedly filing a lawsuit against Apple in Wisconsin over the company’s newly released iPad 3G and iPhone. Nokia is accusing Apple of 5 patent infringements with regard to the iPad 3G. Accordint to Nokia 5 patents are related to “enhanced speech and data transmission, using positioning data in applications and innovations in antenna

AT&T releases international data plans for iPad 3G

AT&T has released pricing model for internation data plans for iPad 3G. The service is available in more than 90 countries with starting price of $24.99 per month for 20 MB data to $200 for 200 MB data usage. AT&T recommends that users purchase an international plan before departing for a trip but is it

ABC’s app updated to support Video Streaming on iPad 3G

Businessinsider reports that ABC has submitted a revised version of iPad app which offers streaming in iPad 3G. This should make iPad 3G owners happy since many users complaints about problems streaming video over iPad 3G since the its launch last Friday. Dan Frommer quoted: ABC’s iPad app will support 3G video streaming in a

iPad 3G sales off to good start, 300K on first weekend

Latest reports showed that sales of Apple’s 3G version of the iPad during opening weekend were pretty good. Apple launched iPad 3G in the U.S. late Friday afternoon at prices starting at $629, compared with the $499 bottom price for WiFi only. According to Gene Munster, an analyst Piper Jaffray & Co., Apple sold about

Battery Life On The iPad 3G

Seems like iLounge have been playing and testing their iPad 3G through a lot. They have come up with nice test result of total battery life in iPad 3G. Although this is early result, it looks good. iLounge completely and repeatedly reloaded a large page every minute, at 50% screen brightness. Apple claims that the iPad

Native SMS on jailbroken iPad 3G

Latest tweet from MuscleNerd, member of iPhone Dev Team revealed that SMS text messages could be sent from jail-broken iPad 3G using command line terminal. The MobileSMS.app from the iPhone doesn’t run properly on the iPad so MuscleNerd used raw command lines via Terminal. It is very primitive with no GUI version and much of the work is still

17 Steps for iPad 3G Teardown by iFixit

They dissected iPad Wi-Fi version a month ago. Now, iFixit has managed to teardown the iPad 3G and analyze its insides. Tearing down the iPad 3G was a 17-step process. Most notable differences are between wifi only version and 3G is obvious additional 3G / GPS functionality and use of 5 antennas in iPad. The highlights

AT&T Blocking some Video Streaming apps in iPad 3G

Update: An AT&T spokesperson has responded with the following, “It’s just a question for Apple.” Update 2: Business Insider’s Dan Frommer responded TechCrunch editor, MG Siegler via twitter: @parislemon ABC is wifi only on purpose. I believe rights play a role. (they’re different on wifi vs 3G) sounds dumb but true. According to iLounge report

iPad 3G Jailbroken by Spirit

MuscleNerd of Dev Team has just posted couple of pictures and dev team has updated blog post with video. As expected, iPad 3G has been jailbroken only within a few hours of its launch using Comex Spirit JB. Video shows a jailbroken iPad 3G running Cydia. I would suggest you to backup SHSH blob before running Spirit JB,