I'm a voracious Kindle ebook reader, so I was thrilled to find this list of resources for searching out cheap or free ebooks. Do you have any tips to add?
I think we can count on the new iPad coming this fall since "iPad2018Fall" is in the code. I can only assume this will be one of the big announcements in October. I wish they would have done all of the announcements at one event though.
I was crazy about tablets a few years ago. The gap between my phone and laptop was where a tablet usually went in, but it disappeared when I could use my phone to take notes or bring my laptop around. Will these new features bring the market back to the tablets again?
I'm pleasantly surprised by this article. I think this is the invention that we've been waiting for! The hardware components are not the bendable type, so I can only imagine what the scientists do to create this unique shape. What do you want to see next?
When the new iPad came out this year with stylus support, the line between a regular iPad and the iPad Pro got blurred a little bit because it also featured support for a stylus called the Apple Pencil. With the A10 Fusion on the iPad and A10X Fusion on the Pro being so similar in performance, the only aspect left to differentiate them was the iPad Pro’s support for Apple’s proprietary Smart Keyboard. Even then, the iPad still has an army of decent workarounds with equally well-made Bluetooth keyboards from third-party manufacturers. Sure, the iPad Pros still have an advantage in their HDR-capable screens with a ProMotion display that allows for a 120 fps refresh rate to make animations look absolutely awesome, but really, the iPads also have decent screens that do not come far behind.
However, the iPad Pros are almost a full year old and; the technology that Apple is using on their latest products have been greatly improved since. According to our experience on Apple releases, it’s just about time for them to release a new set of iPad Pros. If we are to believe the leaks, there are big changes coming for the Pro that would finally make it a worthwhile upgrade from the latest iPad.
The new iOS 12, which is now available for beta testers, and the various hardware revolutions available on the iPhone X can give us a feel of what to expect from the upcoming iPad Pro. We know this because incorporating their latest tech developments to their newest products has been what the company has, most of the time, done in the past. All of these make an exciting time for those of us who are planning to upgrade to a new iPad Pro soon.
It’s Going to Be a Content Consumption Champion
The elephant in the room that needs to be addressed is the notch. A lot of the leaks suggest that the full-screen and notch design initially seen in the iPhone X is almost surely going to be incorporated into the upcoming iPad Pro. The crowd’s reception of the notch has mostly been mixed with some people absolutely hating it, a few others loving it, and a lot of people being indifferent to it. However, some suggest that bezels are essentially needed for the tablets in order to be able to hold it so there is a chance that Apple might not go for a fully bezel-less design and just settle with a close to 99% screen-to-body ratio. It wouldn’t be a difficult feat to accomplish since the screen is so much larger on the tablet.
However, for the most part, the bezel-less feature of the screen which people love, when coupled with the ProMotion display and HDR technologies already on the previous models can potentially make the new model possess one of the most technologically loaded screens on the planet. The TrueTone feature of the display is also a screen feature that is expected to make an appearance in the new iPad. It basically adapts to the changes in lighting situations making the tones on the iPad different when under sunlight versus when it’s under a lamp. This makes it a content consumption powerhouse that makes movies look great, web pages brilliant, and colors absolutely accurate wherever you choose to consume them.
As for the size, it’s not clear whether the 12.9-inch version is going to be carried over to the new Pro but what’s for sure is that it’s going to be similar to the current 10.5-inch display size. This means that Apple might either make the screen bigger or just reduce the size of the chassis in order to make the bezels smaller.
Same Old Good Stuff
To make room for the bezel-less design, the iPhone X had to give up the fingerprint reader. The iOS 12 beta hints at the new iPad Pro going the same route. This would make various software touches such as the Animoji and Face ID available to the new tablets.
Internals-wise, the processor on the iPhone X is expected to be adopted by the iPad albeit a bit more supercharged for tablet use. Therefore, it might be called the A11 Fusion chip similar to how the previous iPad Pros' chips were named. As for storage, like the previous iPad Pros that came before it, the 2018 version is expected to have options from 64GB to 512GB.
The tablet-centric features of the iOS 11 are surely going to help with the loss of the home button. The gestures like swiping up to access the multitasking dock that allows for speedy app switching and the introduction of the Files app are excellent additions for tablet functionality. More improvements are expected to greatly enhance the new home-button-less norm for the iOS 12 reportedly coming at the developer conference later in September.
Verdict
Apple has been historically good at keeping secrets but leakers have also been historically good at digging into the annals of Apple-related news in everything including published iOS beta builds and even patent applications. The accuracy of the predictions of some of the leakers makes the leaks extremely credible. If so, it truly is an exciting time to be shopping around for a new iPad.
Many have been mesmerized by Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man, he is the complete package: wealthy, genius, handsome, and charming. Not only that, he also wields the most sophisticated and powerful man-made armored suit. In sum, he is probably what many men would aspire to be.
Central to Mr. Stark’s jet-set lifestyle is J.A.R.V.I.S (stands for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System), an artificially intelligent digital personal assistant which helps Mr. Stark’s run his multi-billions businesses and assists him in designing his iron suits. More than just intelligent, J.A.R.V.I.S is able to converse and understand Mr. Stark and execute his commands to control everything from his iron suit down to his personal computer. So much for a science-fiction movie.
Today, not just in science-fiction, one can actually get a taste of living up the Tony Stark lifestyle by having a J.A.R.V.I.S-like digital personal assistant. At the forefront of such technology is Apple’s Siri with speech recognition feature that can be utilized to control, activate, and deactivate different features of Apple devices such as iPhone. More recently, Apple has brought this technology to a new a height. Catching-up on the trends of internet of things (IoT) and smart-home appliances, Apple launched HomeKit, an iOS framework that allows users to configure and control their smart-home appliances through Apple devices. Along with the launch of HomeKit, a number of third party vendors release smart-home appliances that are compatible with iOS.
If you combine Apple’s HomeKit framework, smart-home appliances and Siri, you will find yourself closer than ever to having a real-life J.A.R.V.I.S that not only controls your phone but also your house. One cool yet simple HomeKit device you could try and play around with is the Phillips Hue Lights. The hue light is able to emit different shades of colors of lighting. If you install a number of these hue lights together in a room, you can produce a particular lighting effect to create a certain ambience and help you ease into a particular mood.
In order to control the hue lights using Siri through your iPhone, you have to connect your iPhone and the hue lights to an intermediary device called Phillip Hue Bridge. You can actually use any of your Apple devices (iPod, iPad, and even Apple Watch) to control the hue lights as long as they are connected to the hue bridge and iCloud. Phillip’s in-built software also allows you to assign the hue lights into different groups for control purposes. You can then put lights that are placed in the same room under a group and control them simultaneously.
Here are some cool commands you could try out with the set-up:
“Turn on/off the lights in the living room.”
"Turn the living room lights all the way up."
"Make the lights blue in the bedroom."
"Hey Siri, set my reading scene."
You can now start living out your Iron Man dream!