| The Kobo Arc 10 HD is the first 10 inch tablet that Kobo has released. One of the benefits of such a large and high-resolution display is the way it can handle complex PDF documents. Today, we test one that has a series of images and text. We document what type of experience you can expect with the Kobo and if its right e-reader for you, if PDF’s are important. One of the things that were evident in the 10 HD is that it actually does not ship with a built in PDF viewer or a mainstream one like Adobe Reader. Instead, you have to use the default Office app, that really does not give PDF files justice. You will want to download one with versatility like Repligo Reader. Overall, the Arc 10 has high resolution and a large screen area to read PDF Files. Sometimes you will encounter aspect ratio problems, that will give you a series of black negative space on the top and bottom of the document. This will insure you will always have to pinch and zoom to find that optimal viewing perspective or remain perpetually zoomed in.
Video: How do PDF Files Look on the Kobo Arc 10 HD? is a post from: E-Reader News |
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Video: How do PDF Files Look on the Kobo Arc 10 HD?
The PDF Experience on the Apple iPad Air
| Today, Good e-Reader News brings you a solid video that documents the entire PDF experience on the Apple iPad Air. Peter and Michael show off the type of features that are available using the stock iBooks app. The iPad Air does a very good job at handling PDF files. You can load them on yourself by plugging the Air into your PC and firing up iTunes. You can hit File/Import File and search your computer for your PDF Files. Next, you want to navigate to the Books tab and make sure the new PDF’s you are adding have a checkmark next to them, and then hit sync. Alternatively, you can use the Safari web browser to find free PDF files online. When you click on them to download a little notification prompt will be under the website navigation bar, asking you if you want to open the file up with iBooks. The iBooks experience for PDF files is actually way better than how Barnes and Noble and Amazon handle things. You can search for text within the entire document and actually look words up in the dictionary. These are two features that lack with the competition. In this video, you can get a sense on the things you can do, and can’t do with PDF files and iBooks.
The PDF Experience on the Apple iPad Air is a post from: E-Reader News |
Digital Comics Best-Sellers for January 20 2014
| Readers prefer the uncensored version of Miracleman, Attack on Titan makes the Kindle chart, and where’s that second issue of Injustice: Year Two? Here’s my look at this week’s digital comics best-sellers, as of Sunday evening. 1. All-New X-Men #21 There are a couple of quirky things in this week’s comiXology list. One is that Miracleman comic, which I explained earlier. The readers seem to be voting for the mature-rated edition, unsurprisingly. The second is Injustice: Year Two #1 showing up on the list for the second week in a row; it’s supposed to be a weekly comic, but there doesn’t seem to have been a new issue this week—the release date for issue #1 was January 7. And the Walking Dead lumber back in for a second week on the top ten. Marvel wins the week with five of the top ten; DC has four, and The Walking Dead is an Image title. 1. Hyperbole and a Half No, Big Nate, what you smell are the zombies right behind you! Seriously, the Kindle list is nothing if not eclectic this week, with Allie Brosh’s comic-ish Hyperbole and a Half leading the pack, followed by Tom Taylor’s Superman-as-dystopian-dictator story Injustice: Year Two and a marked-down X-Men graphic novel. The first volume of Attack on Titan pops up, I think for the first time, and it’s interesting that it’s vol. 1 and not the latest volume, but that’s good as it means new readers are picking it up. 1. Naruto, vol. 64 With Barnes & Noble, I don’t so much check the list as check to see if it varied at all from last week’s list. The only change this week is that Batman ’66 and vol. 2 of The Walking Dead changed places. iBooks 1. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #15 That elusive second issue of Injustice: Year Two shows up in the iBookstore—as a pre-order. It looks like folks are picking up the first issue of the first season as well, maybe to catch up. Other than that, it’s ponies and zombies, ponies and zombies. Digital Comics Best-Sellers for January 20 2014 is a post from: E-Reader News |
Marvel Censors Miracleman for Some Digital Readers
| Someone at Marvel Comics decided that their new edition of Miracleman needed to be censored for digital release—but apparently not everyone is on board with that. Last week, Marvel released the first of a planned series of reprints of the Alan Moore/Neil Gaiman run of Miracleman. Miracleman itself has a tangled history, having started off in the early 1950s as Marvelman, a British knockoff of Captain Marvel (which was, confusingly, published by Fawcett Comics, not Marvel). That comic, created by Mick Anglo, ran for ten years and never seems to have stretched the boundaries of the standard superhero comic. In 1982, however, Alan Moore picked it up and created a much darker superhero story, something that is common now but was groundbreaking at the time. This series was picked up in the U.S. by Eclipse Comics, and the name was changed to Miracleman for U.S. readers. Moore wrote the first 16 issues, and then Neil Gaiman took over, working with artist Mark Buckingham (who would later illustrate Fables). Gaiman and Buckingham planned to do three six-issue story arcs, but Eclipse Comics went bankrupt and the last issue to be published was #24. (Miracleman #25 was completed, except for coloring, but has not been published in full.) Many, many lawsuits later, Marvel has ended up with the rights to the story and is republishing the Moore/Gaiman issues, with plans for Gaiman and Buckingham to finish their planned series. And along the way Alan Moore got pissed off and asked his name be taken off the comic, so the official credit is simply “the original writer.” Got that? OK, welcome to this week’s puzzlement: Despite its hefty price tag of $5.99 for a single issue (with, admittedly, a lot of bonus content), Miracleman does not come with a download code for a free digital version, something that has become pretty standard with Marvel comics. What gives? Marvel editor Tom Brevoort explained on Formspring:
What exactly is he talking about? My initial thought was that the original was too spicy for the bluenoses at Apple, so Marvel had to produce a cleaned-up edition to be sold in-app at comiXology. However, the uncut version, which bears the awkward title Miracleman: Parental Advisory Edition #1, is available in the comiXology iPad app as well as the Android app and the website. This version is rated 17+. The censored version, Miracleman: Mass Market Edition #1, seems to only be available on the Marvel digital comics store—I couldn’t find it on comiXology. This seems backwards, as you would expect that (1) Marvel would be publishing the most authentic version of their own comic and (2) ComiXology would be selling the 12+ version in their iOS app because of Apple’s content restrictions. Instead, it’s the other way around. Eh, whatever. According to Bleeding Cool, the difference between the two versions is that a character has a bare butt in one version and is wearing underpants in the other. Presumably the two editions will diverge more as the series goes on and the story gets more intense. The real story here is that the changes give Marvel an excuse not to include that free download code, which makes the comic more expensive, especially for readers who regularly defray the cost of their comics by selling the download codes on the black market. (Via Comicbook.com.) Marvel Censors Miracleman for Some Digital Readers is a post from: E-Reader News |
eBook Review: Cinderella Spinderella by Mark Binder
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When you’re up for a digital book innovation award at the Digital Book World Conference and Expo and you lose out to the powerhouse that is Scholastic, Inc., that’s still pretty impressive. Fortunately for Light Publications and their ebook Cinderella Spinderella, what makes their book great isn’t just the full-color illustrations, audio read-aloud, realistic page turn, or any of the other typical things we’ve come to expect from enhanced ebooks. What makes this title so great is how much thought and effort the creators put into the actual representation of the story. Exhibit A: Cinderella is in a wheelchair, something that her evil stepsisters laugh at her for. Then the fairy godmother–who is actually a homeless woman–shows up and dresses Cinderella in a magical black garbage bag. Exhibit B: When Cinderella does get to go to the ball, obviously…well…she can’t dance, at least not on those ridiculously impractical glass slippers. But the prince is so intrigued by her that they sit and play cards all night, talking and getting to know each other (no silent staring into each others’ eyes and not speaking…looking at you, Disney). Exhibit C (and the most profound thing of all): With the download of this one book, the reader gets to pick Cinderella’s and the prince’s ethnicities, a fact that makes me prouder of Light Publications than I have been of any other digital publisher in a long time. Along with other bonus features, this book is an educator’s dream and is sure to delight any reader. The need to download the book to a computer or laptop first and then transfer it over to the phone or tablet was a minor annoyance, a factor that hopefully the creators will take into consideration down the road. But overall, the book and its 25 possible story versions was pure genius that speaks to readers of any background. Cinderella Spinderella is available at lightpublications.com/dropcard.
eBook Review: Cinderella Spinderella by Mark Binder is a post from: E-Reader News |
How Vampires Sparked the Digital Revolution
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When Good e-Reader first launched its Indie Author Initiative in 2010 to highlight the stories of authors who opted to try out this “new fangled” self-publishing option, the first author interviewed was Solomon Inkwell, whose own publishing experience mirrored that of many other writers who found themselves in Inkwell’s situation. The author queried his very first agent with the requisite letter and three-chapter sample of his book, Vickie Van Helsing. The first agent did the unheard of and personally called Inkwell, gushing with praise for the sample. But then he said the ominous words that shaped publishing for this author: “But vampires are out…what else ya got?” Essentially, the agent loved everything about Inkwell’s writing, but knew he couldn’t pitch another vampire story to publishers. The end result was that the agent told Inkwell to give him a call if he ever wrote another book, and the phone call was over. As Inkwell explained in the interview, “The traditional publishing industry might be done with vampires, but the readers are not.” He self-published the title to comfortable success. Inkwell was far from alone, both in the writing and the publishing of vampire fiction. While critics have argued that the Twilight series sparked a brief wave of interest in paranormal romance, the genre has actually been around for decades. Fans have been enamored of mysterious creatures and the humans who love them for quite some time, and thanks to self-publishing, they didn’t fade into the oblivion of marketability. As digital self-publishing was in its infancy, the paranormal fiction writers–the same ones who had the door slammed in their faces by agents and publishers not for their lack of writing ability or quality titles but because of the supposition that there were enough books with these subject matters–were perhaps the first to flock to the option. These same authors were also the first to give rise to the ultimate success, both monetarily and stigma-wise, with names like Amanda Hocking and Barbara Freethy posting inexpensive ebooks that sated their readers’ thirst for blood…make that, stories. Interestingly, the genre is possibly even stronger than ever now that self-publishing has reached almost every global market and companies who assist authors with their book needs have risen to help them get their work to market. As authors and readers fueled the self-publishing “craze” with their intense interest in these titles, the result has been a stronger publishing option for nearly every genre. The industry and the authors have vampires to thank for it.
How Vampires Sparked the Digital Revolution is a post from: E-Reader News |
Video Tour of E Ink at CES 2014
| Every year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Charbax from ARMdevices.net posts a detailed video showing the current state of E Ink and the projects the company is working on for the future. The first device shown in the video is Sony’s new DPT-S1 Reader with a 13.3″ Mobius display that is designed […] |
A Look at Boeye’s New Android E Ink eReader (Video)
| Earlier this month Charbax from ARMdevices.net posted one of his patented videos from the HKTDC Electronics Fair in Hong Kong showing an Android-powered E Ink ereader from a Shenzhen-based electronics company called Boeye. The Boeye Android ereader is yet another device that will likely never be available in the United States (you can thank Amazon […] |
Daily Deals & Freebies – January 19th 2014
| Extra Kindle Deals Free Coupon for Select Kindle Books for $0.99 Each – Amazon Local Deal – Expires Jan 24th The Big Deal: Kindle Books Up to 85% Off – Now through February 2nd Kindle Countdown Deals – Limited-time discounts on Kindle-exclusive ebooks Kindle Daily Deals Amazon’s main Daily Deal is a bit different today. […] |
Hardcore Readers Prefer to Buy Books from Kobo and Amazon
| The eBook market has blossomed over the course of the last four years. In the United States nearly 8.5 million adults, 18% of the population, have bought at least one e-book. There are hundreds of bookstores that sell electronic books online, some are very niche specific and others sell everything under the sun. Good e-Reader Research is reporting today that Amazon and Kobo are basically tied as being the online bookstore of choice for hardcore readers. Good e-Reader conducted a one month research project where we polled 250 people about their favorite online bookstore of choice. Good e-Reader users tend to be savvy, well educated and not afraid of new technologies. These are basically the hardcore users that often buy 50-100 books a year and often have more than one e-reader in the household. Amazon and Kobo were tied with 35.34% of the overall votes and these two stores have the largest international footprint. They exist in over 30 different countries and offer millions of titles. Kobo has a much larger library of titles, with over 3.6 million available, they are also easier for people to buy books from. One of the advantages these two companies have is their extensive portfolio of e-readers and tablets to facilitate reading. The Kindle Fire and Kobo Arc line of Android devices are perfect for reading newspapers, magazines, comics, kids, cookbooks and content that shines in living color. Hardcore Fiction and Non-Fiction readers tend to gravitate more towards the Kindle Paperwhite and Kobo Aura. It is no surprise that Kobo and Amazon are basically tied, as they do offer the more extensive library of content, whether you are using one of their devices or install the app on your iPad. Barnes and Noble might be seeing a 30% decline on their hardware and eBook sales during the past holiday season, but they they do have user loyalty. 10.04% of our readers prefer to buy their Nook Books, but 99% of the participants originated from the US. This is the core market where the Nations largest bookseller sells tablets and e ink readers in hundreds of retail locations. Their ecosystem is fairly well developed and they offer self-published titles under the Nook Press banner and full color content optimized for the Nook HD. The sole new device of 2013 was the Nook Glowlight, which tends to be your best friend for binge reading. The Nook hardware is basically only relevant in the US and UK, but their ecosystem has expanded recently. If you are a Windows 8 tablet owner or like to read on your computer, Microsoft has aided the international expansion into over 32 different countries over the last year. Sadly, Android and iOS readers have to be based in the US/UK to buy books online. Most other bookstores only had a few people claiming to use it on a regular basis. Sony had 6.02% of the vote, Google with 4.42%, Smashwords at 2.41% and Wattpad with 2.01%. There were 11 people, that made up 4.42% of the vote that mentioned iBooks, the library, Bookeen and others. Hardcore Readers Prefer to Buy Books from Kobo and Amazon is a post from: E-Reader News |
Baker and Taylor Appoints George Coe as New CEO
| Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributor of books and eBooks has appointed longtime executive George Coe as the company's new Chief Executive Officer and President. Coe brings a ton of experience with him to the table and has been with the company since 2000. He has served as President of Baker & Taylor's Library & Education division, playing a seminal role in the development of Axis 360 program. Axis 360 is their library distribution service and they are 3rd major player in the USA by market share with Overdrive and 3M leading the pack. Mr. Coe will replace Arnie Wight, who retired January 15 after a distinguished 34-year career with the company. Mr. Wight will assume the role of Non-Executive Chairman of the Board and will also work as a consultant for Baker & Taylor to support the leadership transition and the execution of strategic plans. "Baker & Taylor is the leading provider of books, media, technological products and services to customers throughout the world, and I look forward to working with our excellent team to continue to enhance Baker & Taylor's innovative solutions for our retail, library and education customers." Coe continues, "I am proud to lead Baker & Taylor at a time when exciting changes are taking place in all of the markets we serve." Baker and Taylor Appoints George Coe as New CEO is a post from: E-Reader News |
Pocketbook Announces New 614 e-Reader
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The Pocketbook 614 is using an E Ink Pearl screen with a resolution of 1024 by 758 pixels. It has a 1 GHz single core processor and 256 MB of RAM. There is 4 GB of internal memory and a SD card to enhance it up to 32 GB. It has a WIFI connection in order to connect up to the Pocketbook open source bookstore. The company has told us that their store does not get a ton of traction and instead they basically rely on Russians inclination to pirate books like there is no tomorrow. Pocketbook makes pirating eBooks rather easy with their support for a multitude of formats. It will handle CHM, DJVU, DOC, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, FB2.ZIP, HTML, PDF, PRC, RTF, TCR, and TXT. There is no word yet on if this is a touchscreen device, but given that there are no manual page turn buttons and a single home button, I would assume it has a touchscreen display. It will be available in the next few months and retail for $119 US. Pocketbook Announces New 614 e-Reader is a post from: E-Reader News |
Saturday, January 18, 2014
The Best Large Screen e-Readers
| Many professional users who need a large screen e-reader for work, school or technical documents often find a six inch device is simply not cutting it. A large viewing area is often critical for showing the entire PDF document or to read eTextbooks. These devices normally start at 9.7 inches and the odd one is a bit larger. e-Reader companies such as Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Kobo simply don’t make these types of devices, due to the prohibitive price point. Today, we look at the best large screen e-readers that are currently on the market. Icarus Excel – Icarus is quietly building up a portfolio of very solid e-ink based devices and the Excel is currently the flagship model. It is a giant 9.7 inch e-ink touchscreen reader with the best PDF experience we have ever witnessed on an e-reader. The Icarus Excel features a 9.7 e-ink Pearl display with a resolution of 1280×825 pixels and 167 DPI. It has a full touchscreen display, but only responds to the accompanied stylus. Underneath the hood lurks a solid 800 MHZ Freescale CPU processor and it has 256 MB of Ram. Storage gives you 4 GB to play around with and can be expanded up to 32 GB via the SD Card. The best aspect of this device is being able to edit PDF files and actually save them in an independent document. This allows you to keep the virgin unedited file, and also a separate one with your highlights, annotations and notes. Onyx BOOX M92 Black Pearl – BOOX M92 Black Pearl, 9.7 inch screen operated with stylus. That solution provides you very comfortable reading. Black Pearl is equipped with modern software. Text-to-speech system Ivona 4.0 can read any eBook purchased in any store as audiobook. 9.7 is useful in reading technical documentation also PDF files. Jetbook Color 2 -The Ectaco Jetbook Color 2 is one of the only e-readers on the market that have a full color display. This is critical for reading documents that are color coded or for eTextbooks. Color e-Ink is not really ready for prime time, but if you are looking for large screen display, with color, take a look. The Jetbook Color 2 is basically the same hardware as the first generation device and the main difference is the screen and the faster performance because of it. The e-reader itself features a 9.7 inch e-ink Triton 2 Display with a resolution of 1600×1200 pixels. Underneath the hood is a Freescale i.MX508 800MHz with ARM Cortex A8 CPU processor. Unfortunately, this processor is woefully underpowered for what this device is intended to do. Navigating menus, turning page pages, or launching programs demands an exercise in patience. There is a solid 4 GB of internal memory, but with all of the student programs bundled on the device you have around 2 GB to work with, which is more than adequate. If you demand more space for your music, books, and other content you can expand it via Micro SD up to 32 GB. Amazon Kindle DX – The Amazon Kindle DX came out in 2011, and is still available on the Amazon website. It has never been a priority with Amazon and received the least firmware updates than any other device they ever released. It is quite basic, does not have a touchscreen, but does have a full on keyboard. The Amazon Kindle DX Graphite edition continues the trend of being Amazons largest e-reader to date. Featuring a 9.7 inch screen and 50% better contrast and resolution from previous models, it is certainly worth the $199 pricetag. Its screen displays a 1200 x 824 pixel resolution at 150 ppi, features 16-level gray scale, and a new 10:1 contrast ratio. The screen itself is quite respectable in terms of resolution and pixel density. The resolution on the display is 1200×1600 with 150 PPI. It is dubbed Mobius by E Ink and the company is actively shopping it around to the who's who list of the e-reader world. The main attraction is using the active digitizer and interacting with complex PDF documents. You can edit documents by jotting down your own handwritten notes, or even highlight passages to go back to later. The large screen display will simply give you the best PDF experience you have ever had on an e-reader. I have personally reviewed over 83 different e-readers since launching Good e-Reader in 2009, and this was the first one to give me a quality PDF experience. I have received emails from airline pilots, heads of research divisions, and publishers about what device they should buy to read their PDF Files. I would implore everyone to buy this Sony one when it comes out; it changes the game. I don’t normally gush about things like this, but when it comes to school, work, newspapers, gaming guides, and technical PDF documents, this is solid. Wrap Up There are many other large screen e-readers on the market, Pocketbook has an extensive portfolio, but we can’t honestly recommend them. They all suffer from woeful hardware, that make it an exercise in patience to get ANY work done. Kobo has a 6.8 inch Aura HD e-reader, it is not large enough for most peoples technical work, but does sport very high resolution. In the end, most companies do not make very large screen e-readers, due to the cost. When you buy a e Ink device for over $300, most people end up just getting a tablet. The benefit of an e-reader is the one month or greater battery life and a screen that is easy on the eyes. Tablets often only last a full day of constant use and must be recharged. The Best Large Screen e-Readers is a post from: E-Reader News |
Amazon Offering £25 Discount on Kindle Fire Line in the UK
| Amazon UK has announced a discount of £25 on its Kindle Fire HD range of tablets in celebration of being ranked first in customer satisfaction in the country for seven years in a row. The discount is in effect until January 20, and buyers are required to enter the code MAYDAY25 at check out to use the discount. The 16 GB version of the Kindle Fire HDX 7 can be had for £174, while the bigger Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 with 16 GB onboard is £304. Similarly, the Kindle Fire HD 7 will cost just £94, while the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 stands at £154. The offer is valid on all Kindle Fire devices sold by Amazon and will be in effect only as long as stock lasts.
Amazon Offering £25 Discount on Kindle Fire Line in the UK is a post from: E-Reader News |
A Curious Loophole To Get a Kindle Free for 1 Year
| I recently discovered an interesting loophole in Amazonland that seemingly lets you use a Kindle for a year and then return it for a full refund. I don’t know if I experienced a random occurrence, a weird glitch, or if it’s just Amazon employing an unusual sales strategy. Given Amazon’s history, I tend to suspect […] |
Could Low-Power LCD Displays Replace E Ink?
| Last week Japan Display announced that they’ve started mass-producing a new type of energy-efficient LCD display that could potentially be used for ebook readers in the future. The new display technology shares some similarities with E Ink—being low-power and outdoor readable—and could prove to be a worthy alternative. What’s most interesting about these new LCD […] |
Daily Deals, Freebies & Tips – January 18th 2014
| Interesting Reads and Forum Posts Rooting tutorial for 7″ Kindle Fire HDX – A simple process that roots Amazon’s latest tablet. New Chrome Plugin Backs Up Your Digital Comics And Strips the DRM – There’s a plugin for Chrome that lets you download and backup comics from comiXology and convert them to CBZ files without […] |
Friday, January 17, 2014
Good e-Reader Android App Store App Updated
| Good e-Reader is proud to rollout a new build to the Android App Store Client that offers a number of new features and enhancements. The client now has over 123,000 Apps and has received positive feedback from many of our distribution partners. We have amended the home screen to be optimized for large screen devices, such as the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, Kobo Arc 10 HD and many others. There is a series of featured images we have and we have spent quite a bit of time tweaking it to look good both on smartphones and tablets. The final change on the home screen was adding a brand new category “Essential Apps.” These are the apps every new device needs to have, such as Adobe Reader, Flash, ES File Explorer and many others. The last major change on this brand new update was solving some of the crashing issues we have been having. This new version now works and users should not encounter any situation that the client force closes. One of the bugs was switching from landscape to portrait mode on large screen tablets. We have since locked it to portrait mode only for the next while, as we iron out any of the kinks. The Good e-Reader App Store had over 100,000 downloads of our client since we issued it two years ago. We recognize that most people don’t want to be tied into one ecosystem and like choices. Our app store is a perfect compliment to Amazon or Google. You can download it today for free HERE. Good e-Reader Android App Store App Updated is a post from: E-Reader News |
Mozilla Firefox Tablet Specs Leaked
| Mozilla has been pushing its Firefox OS as the next big thing to hit the mobile devices segment. While this will bring about a change in the usual Android – iOS circle that we have been embroiled in with Windows providing some respite in between, we were curious as to what the first tablet device will be like running the brand new OS. Fortunately, we have healthy insights here, thanks to company insider Asa Dotzler who has made available the specs of Mozilla's very first tablet. To begin with, the tablet will have a 10.1 inch display lit up by 1280 X 800 number of pixels. On the other side of it lies a A31 quad core Cortex A7 chip rated at 1 GHz complemented by a PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU. Onboard memory will be 2 GB along with 16 GB of internal storage. Besides, there will also be a 2 and 5 megapixel camera along the front and rear respectively along with the usual micro USB port and a 3.5 mm slot to plug in headphones or other externals. Powering the device is a 7000 mAh battery though actual runtimes aren't available. The other crucial things missing are the when and how much bits. While a launch does not seems too far away given the company having received the first batch of devices from Foxconn, pricing will be important for the tablet to make a mark. Mozilla has chosen MWC event to first launch its mobile OS and with MWC 2014 could well serve as the perfect setting to launch the tablet as well. Mozilla Firefox Tablet Specs Leaked is a post from: E-Reader News |
Apple Not Likely to Launch iPad Pro Before Q3 2014
| The next tablet segment that has caught on the fancy of tablet makers is obviously those that offer 12+ inch of screen real estate. These are aimed at the enterprise users among others and Apple has been rumored for quite some time now to be fielding a contender in this emerging segment; more so after Samsung has already made the initial move here with the launch of the 'Pro' versions of its Galaxy Tab models. However, as per a Digitimes report, the iPad Pro that will offer a 12.9 inch display is not expected to be ready for a market induction before Q3, 2014. Surely that would be quite late if Apple is indeed in a hurry to match Samsung's move to launch a big screen tablet though the above timeline tallies well with the usual schedule during which Apple refreshes its product line up, which is during fall of every year. The complete lack of any parts leak or other evidence from parts manufacturers further bolsters our assumption of the intended launch period of the iPad Pro during Q3 this year. Research analysts DisplaySearch though is claiming that the 12.9-inch iPad Pro will come with a Retina display having a resolution of 2732 x 2048 pixels, which translates to a pixel density of 265 ppi. Meanwhile, there have also been reports of Apple considering a hybrid approach for the iPad Pro, one that will come with a detachable keypad unit. The keypad might even come with a separate battery unit to keep the huge display going for respectable amount of run times that successive generations of iPad has always been known for. Meanwhile, Digitimes is also claiming that Apple is into developing new iPad models in the 7.9 and 9.7 inch dimensions which will replace the current lineup. However, while this can't be ruled out, it's the iPad pro models that no doubt will be evoking greater excitement. Let's see how things pan out in the next couple of months. Apple Not Likely to Launch iPad Pro Before Q3 2014 is a post from: E-Reader News |
