Apple suppliers start manufacturing next-gen iPad with Anti-Reflection Coating

Although everyone’s attention is currently focused on Apple’s upcoming flagship iPhone 6 and iWatch, Apple’s next generation iPad is also gearing up to enter the market. A report published by Bloomberg claims that according to its sources with “knowledge of the matter”, Apple’s Asian suppliers have begun manufacturing new iPads.

The mass production of 9.7-inch iPad Air has already started while the 7.9-inch iPad mini is set to enter production. Apple is planning to use a new anti-reflection coating for the larger iPad so that the display becomes easier to read. As a result, it may face certain manufacturing issues and its output may be limited initially.

The full sized new iPad Air is said to launch by the end of this quarter or in the beginning of the next quarter i.e. around September-October this year. The new iPad mini will possibly get released by 2014 year-end.

Although Apple has the largest share in the tablet computer market, its iPad sales have declined in the last two quarters. So the Cupertino based company is trying to breathe new life into the flagging sales with new improved iPad models.

Apple will surely try to time their launching to coincide with the holiday shopping season. Other products in the lineup include two variants of the iPhone and the fitness tracker iWatch. Apple is holding a special media event on September 9 when the company is expected to unveil its new 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones.

Apple suppliers start manufacturing next-gen iPad with Anti-Reflection Coating

Samsung’s latest Galaxy Tab S commercials show how it is superior to Apple’s iPad

We recently saw Samsung release a Galaxy S 5 commercial, calling iPhone users as ‘Wall huggers’. Now Samsung is back with two new commercials for its Galaxy Tab S that compare it with the Apple iPad, though not directly.

The new video commercials of the South Korean company highlight the strengths of Galaxy Tab S in comparison to another tablet. These include high contrast ratio offered by its Super AMOLED display and its multitasking ability.

According to the first commercial, Super AMOLED display of Galaxy Tab S offers 100 times higher contrast compared to many LCD Tabs. Instead of the usual 1,000:1 contrast, the Galaxy Tab S gives 100,000:1 and the Super AMOLED shows all the fine details of the image which many LCD screens cannot do, giving high accuracy and quality even in dark images. You can see the commercial below:

In the second commercial Samsung highlights the multitasking ability of its Galaxy Tab S. Here, the dad wants to watch sports while the baby wants to watch a cartoon film but the tablet they have cannot open both the apps at once. The tablet is then swapped with a Galaxy Tab S which allows displaying of both the apps at once on the screen and both baby and dad are happy.

The other tablet shown in the commercial has not been named but it looks like Apple’s iPad Air that has an LCD display and no facility for multitasking. Samsung launched the Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 in June this year. They are the first tablets with Super AMOLED displays.

Samsung’s latest Galaxy Tab S commercials show how it is superior to Apple’s iPad

At WWDC, Rumored iOS 8 Split-Screen Multitasking Feature Comes Out As The Truth

Last Monday at WWDC, Apple iOS 8 keynote only presented the half story about the upcoming software and since then it is known Apple has integrated some new features in the mixture.

At the Worldwide Developers Conference, it was known that Apple wouldn’t reveal every little detail related to iOS 8. The deep details related to iPhone 6 to the iWatch are still not known. The Apple is keeping the details secret till date.

Pre-WWDC rumors were saying that Apple would soon launch split-screen multitasking for iPad and the deep details inside iOS 8 code has showed that rumors were not rumors but the truth.

Within iOS 8′s code, Steven Troughton-Smith of Apple revealed a feature that will run two apps side by side on SpringBoard. He also spotted that this splitting screen will allow two apps to run on the screen by sharing 50-50 space and can also run by sharing three-quarters or one quarter of the screen while other sharing the remaining space.

This feature will be supported by iPad Air and other iPad with full size screen and iOS 8 as an operating system. iPad mini with Retina Display or iPad mini will not support this feature. It is expected that this feature will be available at the time of iOS release, which will held in September. As the year advances through the beta release cycle, we may get to know more and get more things in our hands.

As for the “iPad Pro”, this so called large displaying tablet is expected to be released later this year.

At WWDC, Rumored iOS 8 Split-Screen Multitasking Feature Comes Out As The Truth

Apple to fetch split-screen multitasking to iPad with iOS 8

 

Apple’s next-generation mobile OS might offer iPad users the flexibility to run — and consider — 2 applications at an equivalent time, because of new multi-app split screen support, per a replacement rumour.

The new feature is claimed to be within the works for “iOS eight,” Apple’s anticipated next major unharness of its mobile platform, consistent with 9to5Mac. The feature has allegedly been planned with Apple’s life-size  9.7-inch iPad models in mind, as well as the iPad Air, however aforesaid it’s “unclear” whether or not multi-application support are going to be accessible on the 7.9-inch iPad mini.

Information on how such a feature might work persist unknown, though it was said that users might be able to more easily drag text, video or images from one application to another.

Details on however such a feature may work stay unknown; however it had been aforesaid that users can be ready to additional simply drag text, video or pictures from one application to a different.

In the initial days of iOS, multitasking support was restricted to basic background functions for Apple-built applications. True multitasking support did not arrive till iOS four, and then called iPhone OS 4.0, that allowed developers to run specific processes within the background.

 

But up to now, iOS has solely been capable of showing one application at a time; exploit the iPad as primarily a “unitasking” device for viewing content.

The ability to look at multiple applications quickly and “snap” them into place on a restricted screen size is presently offered by Microsoft’s Surface tablet platform. AppleInsider had the chance to check out a Surface two last fall, and located that the power to run 2 applications on the screen quickly was a key advantage over Apple’s iPad in terms of productivity.

Dual-window multitasking on Microsoft’s Surface 2 is restricted to solely 2 apps at a time, and could be a landscape-only affair. Windows square measure forced to the left and right of the show, because the 16:9 screen is just too slim to permit multitasking in portrait mode.

 

Apple is anticipated to formally unveil iOS 8 at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which can start up on June 2 with a keynote appearance. Whereas increased multitasking support could also be a key feature of iOS eight on iPad, it’s reported that new health-related functions could also be the shaping side of the next-generation package on iPhone.

Apple is additionally reportedly getting to partner with Shazam to make in song recognition to Siri in iOS eight. And also the company is additionally expected to introduce major enhancements to the iOS Maps application, investment transit information it picked up in getting Hop Stop and Embark.

AppleInsider has seen sturdy traffic from each iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 in current months, signifying testing has been occurring on each platform for a few times. In its WWDC 2014 declaration, Apple merely same it plans to point out off its “newest advances in iOS and OS X” at this year’s seminar.

Apple to fetch split-screen multitasking to iPad with iOS 8