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iPad used as passport to cross US border: that’s a first!

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:18:26 +0000

This is a story you have to hear: some Canadian guy was just about to cross the border into US and realized he just forgot his passport at home, some two hours away. What he did next seems like a joke, but I swear it’s true (I’ve read the news on many websites): he used a scan of the passport stored on his iPad to convince the US border officers he’s the person claiming he is, Martin Reisch. Maybe the holiday spirit is the one responsible for his success, or maybe the fact the situation didn’t happen in an airport, [...]

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Apple has a special limited time offer for 1st gen iPads

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:29:16 +0000

The first gen iPad is still a formidable tablet, even after Apple improved it with the launch of the iPad 2. While you can’t officially get a new iPad 1 from Apple anymore, the company still sells refurbished models, and since they’re always in stock it means you can still get a good tablet for a bargain price. Now Apple has sweeten the deal even more, as for a limited time you can get a refurbished iPad 1 for $100 less that it was before. Details of the clearance event are here. So if you want a cheaper brand tablet [...]

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Watch TV on iPad 2 with Elgato EyeTV Mobile dongle

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:49:04 +0000

The iPad 2 can do a lot of things but up until now watching over-the-air TV was now an option. Sure you could get TV channels streamed over the Internet, but a true TV watcher needs an iPad 2 accessory like the Elgato EyeTV Mobile dongle which connects on the charging/sync port of your iPad 2 and brings DVB-T radio transmissions directly to your tablet’s screen. Elgato EyeTV Mobile dongle costs only 99 EUR (possibly $99 in US and Canada when the ATSC version is ready) and features a small body with an extensible antenna that facilitates getting a better [...]

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The iPad is the best mobile gaming console. Consoles are going down

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:55:13 +0000

We all know that people use tablets for gaming, a lot, but we didn’t knew the iPad was such a good mobile platform for gaming, until we’ve heard Electronic Arts’ CEO saying they’re putting new software every 90 days on the iPad platform which didn’t exist 18 months ago. That’s because consoles, who used to account for 80% of the gaming industry are now down to only 40%. Ouch, that’s got to hurt Nintendo, Sony and even Microsoft, the trio that makes the most popular gaming consoles on market. Lots of people seem to enjoy gaming on the go on [...]

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97% or tablet web traffic in US is iPad traffic

Mike Andrew — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:18:51 +0000

The iPad is clearly the best sold tablet today. There’s no doubt about that, but if you want to get a better idea about iPad’s dominance let’s take a look at the most interesting report of this month: web traffic by country comparing tablets, PCs and smartphones. It’s the best way to understand how widespread the iPad really is. Globally, Apple’s tablet (1st and 2nd generations) account for 89% of tablet web traffic. In US it’s even better, at 97%. Sure you may argue that the iPad uses more data, but even if that’s the case it still dominates other [...]

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Top 7 uncommon but practical uses for the iPad

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:07:27 +0000

While we know the iPad is mostly used for playing games, searching for information, emailing, reading the news, accessing a social network, consuming music and videos, reading eBooks, and shopping online there are some folks finding new and exciting uses for their slate tablet. Reading this post I’ve come up with the idea of making a top of the most uncommon uses for the iPad, which proves the sky is the limit in finding new ways to get your money back after spending them on a tablet and maybe even save a life. Most of those uncommon and cool uses [...]

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Blackberry Playbook vs iPad – Browser speed comparison

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:33:02 +0000

One of the apps I found myself using most on the Blackberry Playbook and iPad tablets is the browser, as there’s always something I want to check out or just read various pages from the comfort of my sofa. That’s why I’ve decided to pit together the two tablets in browsing speed, to see which one delivers the best experience overall. As users perception varies and a scientific measurement doesn’t always reveal the true story I’ve decided to put together a video where I load various websites and check out things like page load time, the quality of rendering, Javascript [...]

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7 inch vs 10 inch tablet typing: Playbook vs iPad

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:19:17 +0000

One of the things tablet won’t ever be able to do better than PCs and laptops is typing fast and comfortable. That’s at least my opinion, but the fact virtual keyboards are inferior to plain keyboards doesn’t mean they’re unusable. That’s why I’ve decided to run a comparison test on the most popular tablet formats today, the seven and ten inch diagonals, so I took the iPad and the Playbook and shoot a video showing how fast you can type on them. It’s not a comprehensive head to head test and I didn’t run any special software to give you [...]

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How to tether your Samsung Galaxy S internet connection to the WiFi iPad

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:16:34 +0000

I thought past days about ways to make AllTouchTablet better, and one of the ideas was to make more how to articles and videos to help those who already have a tablet. I’m not talking about complex articles, but small ones that each cover one topic. I hope you’ll help me by telling what you would like to read about, what tutorials you might want to read/see and what are your interests concerning tablets. You can use the contact form, drop a comment anywhere in the site or write me an email (john at alltouchtablet dot com). Anyway, let’s not [...]

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Blackberry PlayBook vs Apple iPad: web browsing comparison

Ionut Popa (John Pope) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:24:32 +0000

We’ve talked a bit about the 7 inch Blackberry PlayBook tablet, RIM’s own child that’s supposed to be a mix of business and entertainment on the go, one that could take over the iPad (or at least that’s what they hope). If you had doubts about that, RIM released a video showing a head to head comparison of Blackberry PlayBook against the all mighty iPad on web browsing experience. As you expect, RIM outlines the fact that iPad doesn’t support Adobe Flash and also takes hints on iPad’s inability to properly display some elements on various websites, even if it [...]

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