iPhone Sheep

After playing with the iPad, the one thing everyone agrees upon is that it’s really fast. It’s also extremely power-effiecient, sporting 10 hours of video playback and over a month of standby time. Now if you were paying attention during the keynote, you’ll know that the iPad’s speed and low power consumption comes from its use of Apple’s custom-designed A4 system-on-a-chip. It opens apps faster, flips orientations faster, and even allows for some cool, new graphical effects. So if Apple has a super chip that runs the iPhone OS at super speeds, where will we see it next?

According to analysts (who totally have engineering degrees), we might see an iPhone with a scaled-down A4 chip as early as July. It likely won’t be as fast in order to preserve battery life, but it should provide significant speed boosts as well as increased battery life. And because the A4 is believed to be based on a similar ARM-based architecture as the iPhone’s current CPU, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t happen.

This week’s apps include an elegant book reading app and a funny survival shooter with a mission.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

MobileCrunch has a great piece outlining five super-cool things the iPhone could learn from its big brother, the iPad. But if you’re not into reading long editorials, we’ll try to sum it up for you.

First up is Bluetooth keyboard support. Not only does the iPad support that neato keyboard dock, you can simply pair a Bluetooth keyboard with it and go. Next is desktop file access, which lets you access files of any kind within any third-party app that supports it. Third-party apps can also support specific file types, which means that developers can broadcast their app’s ability to read any file they want. The iPad can also create PDF documents, perfect for working with iWork apps, etc.

Man, Adobe and its kin are not letting up here. In addition to the company releasing a terse, carefully worded response to the Apple iPad’s apparent lack of Flash, the Flash Blog took a much more truculent approach. Exhibit A: a post entitled “The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?” followed by several mockups of sites laden with the infamous Blue Lego Block of Ambiguity[TM]. Adding to the conversation in the comments, Adobe employee / platform evangelist Lee Brimelow accuses Apple of not wanting the Flash player to succeed, and that the company’s tried to work with Cupertino since the iPhone. ”
They don’t want you to go to Hulu or play Flash games because they worry that you won’t buy their apps,” he says. Frankly, we wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case, and while we understand Adobe’s frustration, this probably isn’t gonna help relations between the two tech firms. Hey Adobe, trust us, we feel your pain — we really want Hulu on the iPad, too.

In other, more amusing news, it seems Apple’s official iPad promo has slipped up a bit in showing off what the tablet can really do. Namely, one clip of the New York Times and an article on 31 places to go in 2010. Here it clearly shows a Flash-based module up top, inaccessible without the plugin. We’re not thinking this is a sign of things to come — if anything, it’s probably just a mistake by the producers. Don’t get your hopes up, folks.

Update: Clarified relation of The Flash Blog to Adobe.

Adobe employee ups passive aggressive stance on iPad while Apple promo forgets its limits originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yes, we’ve heard similar things from Hulu’s CEO Jason Kilar before, but this time he’s super cereal. In an interview with Om Malik earlier this week, Kilar responded positively to several questions regarding mobile versions of Hulu. “The computer in your pocket is very important,” Kilar said. “Mobile is a monster – we are very bullish. We will embrace any device.”

When asked about an app specifically for the iPad, Kilar went on to say, “We are very big believers in mobile and we don’t think about one device only.” Of course it makes sense on such a large, media-centric device.

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00:01:00 – The Apple iPad: starting at $499
00:03:00 – Live from the Apple ‘latest creation’ event
00:07:00 – iPad can run all iPhone apps unmodified, new iPhone SDK out today lets developers tweak apps for iPad use
00:08:00 – Apple iPad launch day roundup: everything you need to know
00:10:00 – Apple iPad 3G service plans on AT&T, $30 for unlimited data
00:21:05 – The Apple Tablet: a complete history, supposedly
00:21:20 – Is this the Apple tablet? (update: new images)
00:24:20 – Editorial: Engadget on the Apple iPad
00:33:30 – Apple’s iPad keyboard dock, case and other accessories get the hands-on treatment
00:48:30 – Adobe on Flash and the iPad: ‘Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices’
01:00:00 – iPad or Kindle: will our wallets decide?
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Engadget Podcast 181 – 01.29.2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Two models in particular, the Bravo and Supersonic, are getting a lot of attention, which leads us to believe an announcement is coming soon.

Originally posted at Android Atlas