Apple's iPad was famously called 'magical' by more than a few of Apple's executive team, and after using one for 18 months, it's hard to disagree.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
We've said it before, and we're not afraid to say it again and if required, once more. Notification Center is quite possibly one of the most important additions to iOS since multitasking and, ironically, it's also one of the most underused aspects of Apple's latest release.
Apple's latest big thing is undoubtedly Siri, the digital assistant locked deep inside the new iPhone 4S. As soon as people began getting their hands on the iPhone 4S and, more specifically, Siri, they started to ask her (or him) increasingly random questions, just to see what the response was.
If there's been one polarizing feature of iOS 5, beyond the Notification Center that just won't stop notifying, and a battery issue that drains juice faster than a 4G Android phone, it's the lack of an iPod app.
Those of you keeping up with developments in the world of iOS gaming may remember how we told you, not so long ago, that Rockstar's epic game, Grand Theft Auto 3 is on its way to both the iPhone and the iPad. Pretty awesome, right?
Back when Google first showed off Google TV, there was great optimism amongst the technorati. What could really go wrong? Google, the world's top search company was promising to bring a little more order to the complicated world of television. Finding movies and TV shows to watch was no-longer going to be the hunt for content that we've all come to hate, and all was going to be shiny and happy in the world of Google TV.
Unless you've been living under a rock, or perhaps an oversized Android phone, the chances are you know that both Samsung and Apple have been at each other's throats for some time now, with both claiming and counter-claiming all kinds of weird and wonderful things.
It seems we can't go longer than a couple of weeks without the Apple rumor mill churning up another, well, rumor. We've barely let the dust settle on our freshly ripped open iPhone 4S boxes, but the iPad 3 claims have already started to circular with alarming frequency.
When Apple released its latest and most changed version of iOS two weeks ago, bringing us up to version number 5.0, there was little-to-no doubt that the update would be considerable. If there is one thing that the iOS eco-system has over its Android competition, it's the fact that users tend to update their handsets and tablets to the latest version of iOS.
We might not have to wait much longer to see the fruits of the new relationship between Nokia and Microsoft, if reports are to be believed, with Nokia set to announce two new Windows Phone 7.x handsets at Nokia World.
