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CNET Apple Byte: iPad 3 Rumors

2011-11-23
what's up Brian song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple now there's plenty of news and the Apple by team will also help you out during this holiday season with a special app but first of the stories the ipad 3 news rumors keep ratcheting up and a display search analyst recently told CNET a QX ga 2048 x 1536 resolution panel has started production and the three suppliers are Samsung sharpen LGD now three suppliers is more than normal and it shows the challenge of manufacturing enough of these high res screens at high quantities the report says the displays will not be AMOLED screens and app will be using the same IPS technology that's used in the current ipad now ilounge reports that the third gen ipad will be 0 point seven millimeters thicker to accommodate the twin light bar system needed for its higher res display as well see this article also says Apple's interested in making a seven point eight five inch tablet if the market also shows there's a demand for it so how much demand is there really in this market for tablets there's a lot of hype surrounding the 7-inch kindle fire but NPD paints a picture that doesn't look so pretty for any other competitor not named ipad at the moment in the first 10 months of 2011 the total number of non ipad tablet sold in the US was 1.2 million units and the company that came out on top was the HP touchpad which managed to take seventeen percent of non ipad tablet sales with its $99 fire sale Samsung was second was sixteen percent and a sous was third at ten in comparison although apple doesn't reveal regional numbers they sold 11.2 million iPads worldwide in the last quarter alone doubling the previous quarter with a lot more explosive growth expected this holiday season and speaking of the holidays you're all probably looking for some killer deals on Apple's hardware the big a tease it's black friday sale for friday last year they offered 101 dollars off imax macbook pros and airs and discounts from 11 to 41 dollars off of ipods and ipads so you can expect similar discounts but nothing like a buy one or get one free now your best bet really is to check out third-party app resellers like mac mall mac connection and best buy whether it's before or after Thanksgiving all right let's keep things in the holiday spirit and check out our app of the week you're with your friends food is on the table but Thanksgiving isn't always the most pleasant experience hey guys guys it's the signature dish of the night it's yam time look at that smell yams again Thanksgivings rolls in Charlie help me up a bite what should I do the app of the week is Chows thanksgiving dinner coach and it's free it will get you set up with eight surefire hit recipes we'll build a shopping list for you to take with you on the go and it includes a schedule and cooking instructions for each dish so Brian let's try that again hey guys check it out it's the signature dish of the night it's yam time look at this oh my gosh here one for you one for you and one for you what would I do without you thank you ciao anksgiving dinner coach way to go tong way to give it your all kind of done without coach all right onto the quick bites we've talked on the show about how the iphone 4 was the most popular camera phone on flickr it still holds that title with the new kid on the block the iphone 4s has now moved on up and has claimed the number two spot with a 3g and 3gs trailing behind it also Apple is one control of several domain names after filing a complaint with the world intellectual property organization to claim URL names that use the word iPhone and then forwarded them to naughty parts sites so that prank won't work on your friends anymore and believe it or not a nationwide study by metric o wireless shows that AT&T has the fastest iphone 4s data speeds for both upload and download and I can tell you in San Francisco that's absolutely the case as well although sprint had the best voice quality it was also found to have the most dropped calls based on their tests and finally check out this cool photo lens dial case from photojojo for the iPhone 4 and 4s it has three lenses a wide angle fisheye and telephoto lens that you can rotate and two tripod mounts now this thing looks amazing but it will also cost you two hundred and forty nine bucks but it's one of those cool accessories that we wanted to show you all right that's going to do it for this week's show send us your emails to the Apple by to cnet com i'm brian Tong thanks for watching we'll see you guys next week for another bite of the Apple you guys who ate my pie oh come on who would do such a thing I'll tell you who brian Tong right you ate it mmm do you want some pie just told me no good pie haha hey cry-baby haha
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