Apple iPad 3 can rename the HD iPad?

There are a few names mentioned around Apple's new tablet is expected to announced on 7/3 here. The most common is for the iPad 3, but some believe that this will be different.

More specifically, these people believe that new equipment witnessed a jump in the current screen technology, which can be passed with the same suffix as the iPhone, and if so the upcoming iPad will be named iPad 2S.
However, a new name was added to the list of names for the upcoming iPad, in accordance with information on the display at a resolution strongly Retina Display (2048 x 1536 pixels), which is the iPad HD.

Belkin and Griffin, two of the manufacturer and case accessories for the Apple device name listed in a list of official products of the company. In fact, named Griffin iPad accessories for HD shell (3), of which 3 are placed in brackets as to let users know about the iPad name corresponding 3 is iPad HD.
Not only that, the recent report from Gizmodo says HD iPad name has appeared from the use of data called Tapatalk applications. Like Google Analytics, Tapatalk statistics show the number of sites visited many times and through what devices.

Some statistics show that small amounts be accessed from a device called iPad own HD screen resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, as the rumors about the quality of the next screen iPad Apple.
Of course this may just be a coincidence.

Sony reduced the 100 USD price tablet Tablet S

Sony has dropped the price 100 USD for the tablet of their S series, a sign that there are more and more reduced price policy given tablets.

Tablet S 16 GB is priced at 400 USD, down from 500 USD, while the 32 GB version was reduced from 600 USD to 500 USD only.
 
It is known that S is Sony Tablet PCs equipped with table 9.4 inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixel, dual-core processor Tegra 2, 1 GB of internal memory, 0.3 megapixel front camera and 5 Mpx behind, running Android Honeycomb, 1 GB RAM and the battery is said to work in 8 hours.
 
Sony is not the first manufacturer to sell off the tablet. Before that RIM has reduced the price BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to 300 USD compared to the original price of the product. Now it is quite another Android tablet form has been cutting prices. Can be included as sample tablets 10 inch Lenovo IdeaPad K1 16 GB Wi-Fi support and the Acer Iconia 16 GB Wi-Fi support is priced on a Best Buy in turn is 320 USD and 360 USD. While Toshiba tablet form Thrive 16 GB Wi-Fi and 16 GB Asus Eee Transformer Pad supports Wi-Fi is the common price is 400 USD.
 
According to analysts, one of the reasons that the tablet form of lower prices is due to the presence of the tablet form from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The 7 inch tablet form of two companies that can sell for 199 USD, respectively, and 249 USD. Especially Kindle Fire with sales growing strongly.
 
But while other companies are implementing policies to reduce the selling price, Apple seems to have settled with their product iPad. The company is selling iPad 2 are priced from 499 USD to 829 USD with sales of more than 10 million units per quarter. In addition, Verizon is selling computers at a price of Motorola XyBoard 530 USD and 730 USD, with 2 year contract to use (900 USD for the best if not attached contract).

American Airlines has officially launched iPad on flights

Federal Aviation Agency has formally approved the U.S., allowing the pilots of the airline American Airlines is allowed to use the Apple iPad tablet in all flights.
This equipment will be used to replace traditional paper bag used by pilots in flight before.

American Airlines is the airline first received authorization from the Federal Aviation Agency, which allows pilots to use iPad in all phases of flight. Pilots at United Airlines and Alaska Airlines are also being used to try Apple's device on the flight.
As ZDNet reports, iPad will start being used on American Airlines flights from today (16/12) and used to replace traditional paper bag on flights which are mainly used as a flight manual contains information such as navigation charts and details how to operate a special feature when the aircraft is flying.
An anonymous source said to ZDNet, American Airlines will start operations iPad flight number B-777 and then perform all other aircraft fleets.
The source revealed: "The other airlines like United, Alaska and UPS has been considering this potential but no one received approval to conduct flight operations in all phases of flight. The results approved for American Airlines is the result after it tested within 6 months with thousands of flight hours with iPad to test and evaluate products. "
A paper bag on the flight will include 12,000 pages and weighs 17 kg. Meanwhile iPad weighs under 1 kg and is much smaller. In August, United Airlines has clearly explained the benefit of the pocket area of ​​paper in the previous flight and said that would save 16 million sheets of paper / year, equivalent to about 1,900 trees cut down to as raw materials.
This also means that the aircraft will be lighter, saving about 326 gallons of jet fuel a year, so cut to 3,208 tons of emissions causing the greenhouse effect.

Amazon Kindle Fire officially released for $ 199

Amazon, the online retail world's largest, has officially announced the Kindle Fire with computer retail price only $ 199, half the price than Apple iPad the cheapest of the 499 USD level.

Fire tablets of Amazon Kindle good value to compete with the iPad?

Many expect the release date

Fire Amazon Kindle is equipped with 7 inch screen is enhanced equipment from e-book reading device Kindle reader's platform and runs on Google's Android operating system.
In his speech introducing the device, its CEO, Jeff Bezos, Kindle Fire is believed that one of the tablet PC market dominated board in the future and can pose a real challenge for the iPad Apple, especially after rival Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion is showing signs of retreat.

Apple CEO, Jeff Bezos, the Kindle Fire in hands on introduction

According to Brian Blair, an analyst at Wedge Partners Corp, believes that sales of electronic books, movies and music on Amazon's online store to purchase through Fire Kindle may help offset the small profits from low prices that the company has made.
Blair said: "Tablet of the Amazon really has the potential compared to other tablets because of the infrastructure that the company owns. If you look at Amazon's product, none of the other tablets currently on the market can meet a large media content such as multimedia devices. "

Configuration is not high

Kindle Fire is not equipped with a camera or microphone. Instead this device provides Wi-Fi connection but do not support access to 3G. Users get 30 days free use of Amazon Prime service, advanced services, the company's subscription costs 79 USD / year, including video streaming and free shipping buy on Amazon devices in time 2 days.
Amazon has drawn on the rough surface of the Android operating system a fresh interface and easy to use, allowing the device can connect to a vast library of online book content, movies, magazines and music Amazon's growing.
Amazon Kindle Fire use dual-core processor is TI OMAP clock 1 GHz, 8 GB of storage space in memory, IPS screen with wide glass bearing Gorilla Glass 7 inch for resolution 1024 x 600 pixels.
Equipment size 190 x 120 x 11.4 mm and weighs 413 grams. Users can fully charge the batteries within 4 hours and can be recharged via USB connection to your computer. Additionally, Kindle Fire also offers microUSB port (but the lack of expandable memory card slot).
Really, with a 7 inch screen, users of Kindle Fire still poses a question mark about the feasibility of whether or not the Kindle Fire are formidable opponents for the iPad. Because the current trend of users seem to prefer a 10.1 inch screen than a small-screen limitations.

Reaction from the market

The analyst said that the new Fire Kindle may help Amazon's revenue was up more next year, an estimated increase of 32% to 64.6 billion USD in 2012. But if in the worse direction, Amazon may be disappointed if your tablet does not bring in revenue quickly.
Analysts predict the average total return of the Amazon tablet will reach 22.17% in 2012. Gross margin as a percentage of sales left after subtracting the cost of production equipment.

Besides Fire Kindle, Amazon also introduced other basic equipment Kindle

According to Steve Weinstein, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, said that if not successful this year, investors hope that the market will grow Kindle Fire in 2012 actually.
It is known that Apple iPad began selling in April 2010 and iPad 2 was introduced in March this year. Devices with touch screens of Apple owns the display 9.7 inch wide and is considered the largest source of revenue after Apple's iPhone. As of 25 / 6, Apple sold 9.25 million iPad, a pretty impressive numbers in just over a year.
Apple is also market leader in mobile applications with more than 425,000 applications available, including more than 100,000 applications are designed for iPad.

In very difficult

Although widely expected but Amazon certainly will not forget the fall of the two opponents are considered potential kicked iPad dominance in the launch of RIM PlayBook is introduced in the second quarter and of HP TouchPad.
While sales only reached 200,000 PlayBook equipment, less than half that predicted by analysts, the TouchPad is worse than death when HP in August about a month after launch.

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It should be noted further that, the software maker in the world, Microsoft, has not officially released the Windows operating system for tablet PCs, at least will only become available in the following year.
According to IDC, the iPad account for 68% of the tablet is sold worldwide in the second quarter, while Motorola Mobility and Samsung share the same 27% of tablet sold.