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Apple Offers Free iPod Touch To Mac-Buying Students

Faisal Farooqui — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:13:58 +0000

Apple on Wednesday launched its annual back-to-school promotion offering Mac-buying students and teachers an iPod Touch at no additional charge.For many years, students and schools have been an important market for Apple, and the company wants to keep it that way with its annual giveaway. This year, students and teachers buying any Mac, other than a Mac Mini or a refurbished model, and an iPod Touch on the same invoice qualify for a $229 online rebate, which is the price of the 8-GB iPod Touch.

In addition, educators and students will still get Apple’s education discount, which can amount to as much as $200.

To qualify for the iPod promotion, purchases have to be made before Sept. 8 and buyers have to submit their rebate claims by Oct. 8.

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Analyst: An Apple tablet is coming to shake up netbook market

Faisal Farooqui — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:53:43 +0000

Apple is likely to launch a tablet similar to the iPod touch, but larger in the first half of 2010. This tablet would then be Apple’s entry into the netbook race, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.

In a research note, Munster handicaps the gaps in Apple’s product lineup. The gaping hole: There’s nothing between the iPod touch and the MacBook. Enter this iPod touch on steroids for $500 to $700. Meanwhile, Apple operating chief Tim Cook called netbooks junky, but never dismissed the consumer demand for them.

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What We Know About The Apple Tablet So Far

Faisal Farooqui — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:21:15 +0000

More evidence of the Apple Tablet surfaced today. We first wrote about the device at the end of last year when OEMs in China started hearing about the device. Details are still thin, although probably not because of a lack of leaks. Rather, Apple may still be locking down important specs like screen size.

We’d heard 7 – 9 inch screen size late last year, but today’s reports range up to 10 inches, which we’ve also heard from our sources as a possible size.

We don’t know what the final price point will be, but somewhere between $500 and $1,000 makes sense. We’ve also heard that the launch date was pushed from this Fall to early next year, and we’ve confirmed that significant human assets from the iPod and iPhone team have been dedicated to the project.

In other words, the project is very real.

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iPhone 3.0 Press conference

Faisal Farooqui — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:50:37 +0000

The Apple iPhone 3.0 press conference seemed to reveal some exciting new enhancements to the current iPhone 3G model. Many of the features should have been obvious from the get go but alas they have arrived. Some of the features included in the 3.0 update are:

Custom applications for accessories
Embeddable maps
Push notifications
Cut, Copy and Paste (Finally!)
Landscape keyboard across all applications
MMS
Calendar gets CALDAV
Stock enhancements
New Search function for all applications

The 3.0 update is available today only as a beta to developers and should be released to the general public this summer. I can’t wait to upgrade mine!

Moving from a windows mobile world to the iphone

Faisal Farooqui — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:03:07 +0000

For years I have been using a windows mobile device for my emails and web browsing. I started off initially with the AT&T 8125 which was a mobile device with a slide out keyboard. This phone I liked but then as technology progressed it was upgraded to the 8525 model which had a faster processor. Finally the last phone I just ended up was the tilt aka htc tytn ii. This phone was probably my favorite windows mobile phone to date, but I felt that something was missing.

At about the time I had moved to he tilt I had bought my wife the first generation iPhone. Now this is a person that is not tech savvy and felt like she wouldn’t have a use for such a phone, but she went along. After using her iPhone for about a couple of weeks she couldn’t believe how easy it was to use and how functional it was for her.

After experiencing this and noticing how responsive the user interface was, I decided to get one for myself and after two months of using it, I think I actually like it better than windows mobile. I think mostly because the interface is more responsive plus looks cleaner, and I love the on screen keyboard and most of all the Apps store! I think I am addicted to it. I find myself downloading and installing at least one app a week. In fact, I just wrote this whole post from my iPhone.

Has anyone else had a similar or better experience moving from another mobile device to the iPhone? I’d like to hear about it!