The Pew Research Center released information about last year’s tablet sales. According to the latest survey, 19 percent of all adult Americans now own some form of tablet, which is double the figures from a poll conducted in mid-December. E-reader ownership, meanwhile, increased by exactly the same margin over this period, jumping from 10 percent to 19 percent. Tablets are certainly on the rise and they are slowly becoming replacements for laptop…
2011 brought us the rise and fall of numerous gadgets. HP’s tablet fell into oblivion. Apple, of course, made big headlines with the release of the iPad 2 and a combination of sighs and grunts from consumers when it released the iPhone 4s. Personally, I made the upgrade from a two year old Android phone to an iPhone 4s so for me, that is the best gadget I have run into in…
The presents are opened, all the sweets have been eaten and everyone is ready to add to their new gifts or return the ones they got. At Abt, we are here for all your accessory needs. If you found yourself opening a new fancy gadget, chances are you will want to keep is safe and efficient. Find hundreds of add-ons to your new tablets, MP3 players, TVs or more in our post-holiday…
For Apple, it’s never too soon to start working on the next generation of a product they JUST released. According to sources, Apple is testing a new, high-resolution screen for their third generation iPad. According to allthingsd.com an industry representative mentioned, “Apple’s upcoming iPad 3 will feature an improved display to support quad extended graphics (QXGA), a display resolution of 2048×1536 pixels with a 4:3 aspect ratio to provide full high definition (HD)…
Apple hit a HUGE milestone the other day: 10 billion iTunes downloads. That’s a billion. An incredible feat considering the company is only 10 years old. Originally launched on January 9th 2001, reaching that milestone would mean about a billion songs were downloaded every year. The 10 billionth download from iTunes was the song, “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash. Not a bad song to reach that goal with. You…
As you may or may not have already ascertained from my previous blog entries, I am a huge movie fan. Huge. So I’m pretty excited to follow this weekends events. January 20-24th in Park City, Utah is the CES of movies: The 11th Annual Sundance Film Festival. Four days of new, independent films presented by filmmakers, to other filmmakers, movie stars and cinema freaks alike. This year is a bit different as…
According to This Week In Consumer Electronics, Apple’s iPad had an explosion of sales since its release date of over 7.5 million iPads to consumers. In addition to that, Apple’s sales continue to grow. TWICE reports, “[The] sales of iPhones and related products and services rose 93 percent in fiscal 2010 to $25.2 billion, matching the previous year’s 93 percent growth. The number of iPhones sold during that time rose by 93…
Pioneer unveiled their new line of receivers. Similar to the current models, the VSX series, the newer units will be able to dock an iPad to play music. What differentiates Pioneer’s new receivers from other manufacturer’s receivers that can dock an iPad, is that Pioneer’s are fully iPad compatible. This means while you are listening to music, the iPad is charging at the same time.…
There have been all kinds of things at CES 2011 so far. Technology that is big, small, shiny, robotic, 3-dimensional. One thing has been consistent, however, from the manufacturers: the tablet. Apple’s iPad was a starter pistol for a handful of manufacturers to make their own versions of the handheld device. As you read earlier in this blog, Panasonic has their version, the Viera. Since then Lenovo, Toshiba and even Blackberry have…
I’ve been fighting the desire for an iPad ever since it came out. I own a laptop and a new iPod so, for me, there is really no reason to get one. (Even though it does everything I already own 100x better). I’ve been resisting the temptation for a good while. Until I saw this… Yes. That you see there is an iPad playing the game “Asteroids” in a dock shaped like…
