WWDC 2012 Summary

Siri opened Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference which sold out in 1 hour and 43 minutes :o. Here are some of the jokes he started with:

“Hey, any of you guys been working with ICS or Jelly Bean. Who’s working up these codenames? Ben & Jerry?”

“Seriously, I am excited about the new Samsung. Not the phone, the refrigerator.”

Followed by an intro by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook.Here is a quick summary of the new launches in Apple’s WWDC 2012 :

1. Upgraded MacBook Air : Upgraded to ivy bridge processors and USB 3.0 port included. 100$ price drop. (No retina display 😦 )  
2. Upgraded MacBook Pro : Upgraded to 3rd gen ivy bridge processors. Increased clock speed for both the processor and RAM ! New GPU is the GeForce GT 650M, 1GB.
3. New next gen MacBook Pro : Has the new ivy bridge processor, SSD and retina display 😀 !! 15.4″ across, pixel density is 2880×1800. With 220 pixels per inch ! Termed as Apple’s most beautiful laptop.  Has both the power of the MacBook Pro and elegance and sleekness of the MacBook Air !! It ships with  next-gen Kepler graphics, GT 650M with 1GB of VRAM and a huge battery with 7 hours of backup!! It has magnificent speakers and USB 3.0 slots also. Also has a new revolutionary ventilation system. Starts at 2200$ and all these devices ship today !! 
4.  New thunderbolt accessories and also Mag Safe 2 !
5. Mac OSX mountain lion : Apple has finally mastered the 8th upgrade of OSX which will ship next month for 20$. With over 200 new features like notification center, integrated iCloud, power nap, etc making it a real competition for Windows 8.
6. New Safari : Claims to load Javascript the fastest with improved search features !
7. iOS 6: Comes with a deep facebook integration, improved Siri (Also for the iPad3), and many more features(200 new ones!).
8. Also new : Improved facetime, VIP mail, passbook, new Maps and ton of features for China.

Tim Cook calls wraps up the show with a brief summary! Thanks for being with us during the live updates of WWDC 12. The video of the keynote can be found here : Video .You can leave your comments on our facebook page.

The new iPad

Summary of The new iPad declared in Apple’s latest keynote on March 7th :

1. Retina Display : 264 pixels / inch
2. A5X chip : Quad core graphics
3. iSight Camera
4. HD video recording
5. Dictation
6. Next generation wireless :  4G LTE

At first glance, Apple’s third-generation iPad is all about the screen. With a resolution of 2048-by-1536–significantly better than the competition’s displays at the moment–the iPad’s Retina display is the cover by which this book will be judged.

But the iPad’s high-resolution beauty is more than skin deep. There’s an improved processor, Apple’s A5X, to help handle the Retina display’s 3.1 million pixels and to provide faster performance overall.

There’s also a larger, more powerful battery, which you might notice by the iPad’s slight weight gain. Apple’s iPad 2 had a battery rated at 25Wh. The third-generation iPad’s battery weighs in at 42Wh, a measure of power output that falls between the batteries in Apple’s MacBook Air 11″ and 13″ models, 35Wh and 50Wh respectively.

Apple had to use a larger battery to maintain the 9-hour to 10-hour battery life that iPad users have come to expect–the new iPad is more powerful and thus requires more power.

The new iPad includes hardware for 4G LTE networking in models designed for cellular communications. But consider relying just on Wi-Fi instead–the iPad may be able to handle more network data but your network data plan probably can’t.

The new iPad comes with an improved rear-camera, capable of 5 megapixel images and 1080p video. The front camera? Well, it’s not much to speak of, but it’s there.

Hardware is only half the picture, but the software designed to take advantage of Apple’s latest iPad deserves separate consideration.

It will go on sale on March 16th and will start at 499$ . Also the iPad 2 (16gb) will now cost only 399$ . Also ios 5.1 was announced which is said to fix the iPhone’s battery draining bug !

You can watch the keynote here:

Apple keynote

Update:

Sales for Apple’s third generation iPad hit record numbers last weekend, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

What we are expecting from the iPad 3

With the iPad 2 available for almost a year now, its time to say “Hello and welcome iPad 3”! Apple has already sent out invites to an event on 7th March 2012 in San Francisco, USA. The image on the invite looks like a new iPad with the statement, “We have something you really have to see. And touch” printed on it.

 

So, before we let CEO Tim Cook display this “new device” we thought we’d round up the rumours and expectations from the iPad 3 (or the iPad HD as some like to call it).

1. Quad Core processor: With the NVIDIA Tegra 3quad core processor already kicking ass with its amazing processing power, we feel certain that the iPad 3 will be powered by Apple’s all new A6 processor that will be a Quad Core processor. Rumours on the Internet suggest that the A6 processor may be based on the ARM A15 architecture.
2. iPad Retina Display: We expected this feature with the iPad 2 and were left disappointed. Hence, we will believe the iPad’s Retina Display only when we see it. It is eminent that there will be a bump in the resolution of the devices screen. What remains to be seen is whether that resolution will hit 2048×1536 as reported by the rumour mills all over the web.
3. iOS 5.1: With the launch of the new device, we think Apple may show off some tweaks to iOS and may just unveil iOS 5.1 beta. We expect the additions in iOS to show of a more seamless integration in the Apple eco system and some features that will be shared with the upcoming OS Mountain Lion.
4. Siri and Bluetooth 4.0: These features sound like a given but sometimes its necessary to state the obvious.
5. Better camera: It’s needless to say that the iPad2’s camera sucked (it was better than the iPad one atleast which had none!) and Apple may just bump the resolution of both the front and rear camera. We would like to see the rear shooter be bumped up to 8MP (like the iPhone 4S) but we would be happy to see it have the 5MP camera found on the iPhone 4.
6. Bigger battery: With the rumour that the iPad 3 will be 4G LTE (maybe NFC) enabled, have a faster graphics processor and that Quad Core A6 processor we are all excited to see, its evident that the iPad 3 will support a bigger battery to maintain the 10-hour battery life standard set by its predecessor.
7. New multitouch: With the “And Touch” added to the invite, we get the feeling that there are going to be some new multitouch gestures added to Apple’s arsenal. Maybe a button lessiPad where you can get back to the home screen by tickling it?
8. No buttons: Some rumours say iPad 3 will have no button which is unlikely.
9. Universal band: With the iPhone 4S merging the GSM and CDMA bands in a single device, the same can be expected from the iPad 3. This feature will of course be available in the 3G/4G variants of the iPad 3.
10. Higher price: Apple could maintain the $499 starting price tag for the iPad2 as the upgrade from the iPad 1 to the 2 wasn’t extremely significant ,we think the price may be bumped up anywhere from $50 to $100 for the entry-level version of the device (although we are praying to the Gods of tech this doesn’t happen).