May 09

Apple starts rolling out international iPad pre-orders

Posted in: Apple, apple ipad, AppleIpad, europe, ipad, pre-order, PreOrder, Today's Chili, uk, united kingdom, UnitedKingdom

What’s that, you say? The iPad pre-order button is now propagating itself over on Apple’s global assortment of online stores? The Australian retail is already taking your hard-earned change, while we just saw first-hand the UK variant go down, go up with an iPad pre-order icon on the front page, then subsequently hidden again behind a yellow sticky note within minutes of this writing. We imagine the rest of the stores will be following suit (if they haven’t already). Ladies and gentlemen of the pro-Apple persuasion, better double check your bank accounts — in case you forgot, the full launch is May 28th.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Apple starts rolling out international iPad pre-orders originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 May 2010 19:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 07

iPad international launch is go on May 28 (update: pricing)

Posted in: Apple, breaking news, BreakingNews, ipad, launch, pre-order, PreOrder, price, pricing, Today's Chili

We knew it was coming end of May, now we have a date: May 28th and up for pre-order on May 10th. That’s when the iPad will hit Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. It lands in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore in July. Sorry, still no pricing. Full press release after the break.

Update: Tax-inclusive pricing is out. Très cher! Oh, and Orange UK has fessed up to pricing details for the iPad 3G + WiFi.

Update II: A handy pricing chart has also surfaced, helping you get a better grasp on what Apple’s charging for its first tablet in the first international launch markets.

Europe:

  • 16GB WiFi-only €479
  • 32GB WiFi-only €579
  • 64GB WiFi-only €679
  • 16GB WiFi+3G €579
  • 32GB WiFi+3G €679
  • 64GB WiFi+3G €779

UK:

  • 16GB WiFi-only £429
  • 32GB WiFi-only £499
  • 64GB WiFi-only £599
  • 16GB WiFi+3G £529
  • 32GB WiFi+3G £599
  • 64GB WiFi+3G £699

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iPad international launch is go on May 28 (update: pricing) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 08:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 07

IPad Ships Internationally May 28th

Posted in: ipad, Media Players, Today's Chili

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Apple has finally decided when customers outside the US will be able to buy an iPad. The wonder device will ship in Canada, Australia and much of Europe on May 28th. You can pre-order yours from May 10th.

The press release is spartan. No mention is made of which model will be shipping, so we will assume that both the iPad and iPad 3G will be available from launch. Neither have prices been decided, although obviously those will have to be made public on the 10th in order for people to pay. The recent economic troubles in Greece may affect the pricing: The Euro has crashed against the US dollar, meaning that Apple may want to jack up prices to keep its margins.

Here’s the full list of countries in which the iPad will be available: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. The iPad will be spreading further across the globe in July, with launches planned in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore.

The country-specific Apple Store pages have not yet been updated to reflect this announcement. We wonder just how “available” the iPad will be. When the iPhone first came to Spain, it was almost impossible to find for weeks, despite crazy-high prices. Me? I’m just hoping my contact in New York can stay sober for long enough to send one over to me.

iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28 [Apple]

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Apr 20

Navoto urges you to wait, buy a Skype GSM adapter instead of paying roaming fees

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The Qool SkyQube² was apparently an idea ahead of its time. Four years ago, the small, rounded box promised to bridge the worlds of cheap VoIP telephony and pricy GSM roaming by automatically routing international calls through Skype, but after CES 2007, we never saw the device again. Until now, of course. Skype Journal reports that SkyQube has become the Navoto, and its original creator has built a firm called UGI Telecom to introduce it to market quite soon at an undisclosed price. Near as we can tell, the basic functionality is as complex as ever, requiring a SIM card swap and an always-on PC to do the heavy lifting, while the Navoto itself simply directs landline and 3G calls to SkypeOut. When that glorious day comes that all carriers let you do this on a smartphone, this device will quickly become obsolete, but for now we could see some falling for UGI’s ludicrous infomercials (videos after the break) to avoid receiving a gigantic roaming bill. Hit our more coverage links for the photos and diagrams required to understand how it all works.

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Apr 15

iPad will have ‘dedicated tariffs’ on O2 UK, Orange and Vodafone also doing Western Europe and Australia

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A bevy of identically worded UK carrier announcements has emerged in the wake of Apple’s statement about the iPad’s delayed international release. The good news is that you’ll be able to take your pick from O2, Orange or Vodafone, though the bad news, by the sound of their robotic PR, is that there probably won’t be too much price differentiation in their eventual offerings. Naturally, we’ll have to keep waiting until at least the May 10th pre-order date to find out how much an iPad will set us back with either of them. Concurrent with its UK announcement, Orange has revealed it’ll also offer iPad plans in Switzerland, France and Spain, while Vodafone adds Germany, Italy, Spain and Australia. We’ve also heard from an insider at O2 that the network operator will not itself stock the iPad, with only Apple’s retail, web and “authorised dealers” offering the device for purchase.

[Thanks, Rob and anonymous O2 tipster]

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iPad will have ‘dedicated tariffs’ on O2 UK, Orange and Vodafone also doing Western Europe and Australia originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 14

iPad international launch delayed until the end of May

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Uh oh. Looks like all that US popularity has taken Apple by surprise and the European arrival for the iPad will be shifted back from the earlier promised “late April” to the end of May. Citing more than 500,000 tablets sold in the first week of American availability, the Cupertino brain trust urges its international audience to look forward to May 10, which is when availability and pricing for the rest of the world will be specified.

Update: Rogers has come forward and confessed that it’ll be offering the 3G iPad “from the end of May in Canada,” though it’s keeping monthly price points close to the chest for now.

iPad international launch delayed until the end of May originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 31

Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th

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We’re not quite at the height of Apple frenzy, but looking at the bell curve, we’re only a standard deviation or two from its zenith (we imagine the fever pitch will be in tandem with Saturday’s iPad launch, if history and human nature tells us anything). Of course, that doesn’t stop the rumor mill from amping up production, and so on with the show! First on the docket, remember last month’s discovery of multitasking comments in the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta? Well, Apple Insider’s apparently got it on word from its network of sources that OS 4.0 will in fact include multitasking, with app switching purportedly done by double-tapping the home button and selecting the appropriate active app icon. If you ask us, that sounds similar in function to command / tab switching, but the people claiming to be in the know liken it more to Expose for OS X.

Taking a step back to focus on the actual hardware for a moment, iPad in Canada is hearing that local Apple store employees have been told April 24th is a “black out period,” meaning no one is allowed to take that day off. That usually coincides with major product launch, and we did hear the international iPad debut would be late April, but Apple’s yet to make its non-US plans concrete. It is the last Saturday of the month, however, and perhaps it’ll coincide with the other countries as well. As always, none of this is confirmed and shouldn’t be taken as gospel in any way, shape, or form. We can’t stop you from getting your hopes up, but don’t blame us if those dreams get shattered by a sucker punch of reality.

Apple rumor twofer: Expose-like multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0, international iPad launch on April 24th originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 24

Dell looking outside of China for ‘safer environments,’ according to Indian PM

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The Hindustan Times cover this morning has a generous space dedicated to Google’s exit out of China and related efforts at redirecting mainland users to its Hong Kong hub, but couched cosily inside that story is perhaps an even bigger one. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is quoted as saying that Dell is considering taking its $25 billion’s worth of business elsewhere, possibly India:

“This morning I met the chairman of Dell Corporation. He informed me that they are buying equipment and parts worth $25 billion from China. They would like to shift to safer environment with climate conducive to enterprise with security of legal system.”

Michael Dell’s outfit already has one manufacturing plant in India, and the man himself has been on a charm offensive in the country this week meeting and greeting local officials. It could well be, however, that Dell is just seeking to play China and India off one another to get itself the most favorable manufacturing deal, but it’s still interesting to find such a high profile protestation against the supposedly enterprise-choking climate and uncertain legal system in China. It appears that Google’s wrangle with the Middle Kingdom’s leadership has forced consumer electronics execs to reevaluate their strong reliance on China, and the (very) long-term effects could indeed be a shifting, or at least diversification, of manufacturing away from Yao’s homeland.

[Thanks, Piyush]

Dell looking outside of China for ‘safer environments,’ according to Indian PM originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 09

Is Amazon hiring devs to build a robust web browser for Kindle?

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Are you a software dev with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, familiarity with current Web standards, and experience with browser engines, Linux on embedded devices, and Java? If so, do we have the job for you. Lab126, the group at Amazon responsible for the Kindle, wants you to help “conceive, design, and bring to market” a new embedded browser on a Linux device. Might this be a sign that the company is ready to start taking web browsing on the e-reader seriously? We don’t know, but it sure sparked some interesting discussion over at All Things Digital. As Peter Kafka points out, a decent browser for the thing is pretty much a no-brainer in light of the Apple iPad. On the other hand, the idea of a robust browser on the Kindle has its own complications. What about subscription content like the New York Times — why would anyone pay for something that’s available for free on the web, if you’re using the same device to view both? And what about all that new data traffic? Surely AT&T will have something to say about that. Of course, we’ve been hearing enough scuttlebutt about a mysterious next-gen device being developed at Amazon that perhaps this has nothing to do with the Kindle whatsoever. Who knows? These are all questions that will have to be answered sooner or later, but in the meantime we can say with some certainty that E ink is definitely not the best way to troll 4chan.

Is Amazon hiring devs to build a robust web browser for Kindle? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 01

If you throw away your console, the terrorists have won

Posted in: console, controller, Games, gaming, Law, legal, military, playstation, shipping, Today's Chili


In one of those fun, yet uncomfortable, instances where real life and video games interact, Fox News has uncovered a dusty (and old, very old) PlayStation controller during a raid of an Afghanistani farmhouse, which doubled up as a munitions depository. Lying there, in among rockets, grenades, plastic explosives and tank shells, was this humble blue-hued PlayStation appendage, which we’re told can be rewired to act as a remote detonator. Should you question just how seriously the US government is taking this growing tide of console-aided terrorism, below you’ll find a press release (seriously, a state-issued press release) detailing the detainment of four men in connection with the illegal transportation of digital cameras and PlayStation 2s to a “terrorist entity” in Paraguay. If convicted of the most egregious charge, they face 20 years in prison… for contraband consoles. Face, meet palm.

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If you throw away your console, the terrorists have won originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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