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Retina iPad mini leak points to upgraded processor and cameras
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Cars.co.za launches new iPhone & iPad App
Cars.co.za has announced the launch of its brand new App for iPhone and iPad.
The Cars.co.za App, which has been in development since 2012, plans to take car buying in South Africa to the next level, and comes with many groundbreaking features.
Powerful used car search
As the backbone of the Cars.co.za offering, the latest search technology has been incorporated into the Cars.co.za App’s used car search facility. The revamped search facility offers the following functionality:
- Simple “Quick search” facility
- Advanced search facility
- Multiple criteria support
- Comprehensive sorting options
- Favourite tagging
- Multiple images
- Tilt for full screen images
- Simple contact form
New cars support
The Cars.co.za App is one of the first Apps in South Africa to support new car buying. The App comes with a new car research tool, comprising of a full database of new cars available in South Africa. A list of new car specials is also available.
Latest motoring news
To complement our research tools, the Cars.co.za App also provides users with all the latest motoring news and reviews. Find out everything you need to know about your car of choice prior to purchase.
Other services and tools
The Cars.co.za App’s tools section includes a car finance calculator and insurance quote generators as supplementary services.
Download the App for iOS here.
iPad is top selling tablet, but Android now most common tablet OS, says IDC
More tablets were shipped during January and March this year than the entire first half of 2012: 49.2 million units during the three-month period, according to IDC. The analyst firm’s Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker was published Wednesday and it shows that tablets continue grow at a rapid clip. Every major tablet maker saw large gains in shipments during the first quarter — and one of the notable results of that is that Apple’s overall share of the tablet market is decreasing.
Apple is still the world’s largest tablet seller; it shipped 19.5 million in the last quarter, up from 11.8 million the same quarter a year ago, according to IDC and its own numbers released earlier this month. That’s an increase of 64 percent. Its No. 1 mobile competitor, Samsung, saw its shipments grow even faster, from 2.3 million tablets a year ago to 8.8 million in the latest quarter. Rounding out the Top 5, Asus and Amazon also more than doubled their tablet shipments from a year ago. Microsoft, which did not start selling tablets until October 2012, shipped 900,000 Surface units between January and March.
The overall growth in tablets means Android is now the most popular mobile OS in tablets shipped during the quarter; a year ago it was on 8 million of tablets shipped worldwide, compared to the 11.8 million iPads. This past quarter saw Android shipped on 27.8 million tablets that were shipped and 19.5 million iPads and iPad minis.
All this does not mean doom and gloom for the iPad. Apple’s tablet sales continue at a rapid clip, increasing every quarter – faster than the iPhone right now. And while its overall share of tablet shipments may be slipping, it’s still selling more than double the number of tablets each quarter as its closest competitor, Samsung (see chart below).
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One designer’s quest to make a better Netflix iPad app
How would Netflix’s iPad app look like if you scrapped everything and restarted from scratch? That’s exactly what Joel Grenier, director of UX for the Ottawa-based design agency YOU i Labs did.
“Now that I use Netflix every day and love the service on many levels, I find myself frustrated with the current state of the application experience and design,” he wrote in a blog post earlier this month. That’s why he came up with a very different approach.
Grenier’s prototype comes complete with a sign-in option for personalized profiles — which Netflix is set to roll out in the coming months — custom artwork for movies and TV show pages, the ability to drag and drop titles for custom watch lists and more. And everything is tied together with some very smooth animations.
Grenier even mocked up some second-screen functionality for the Netflix iPad app, allowing users to tweet about titles they’re currently watching and even buy things related to a movie or a show.
It’s unlikely that the Netflix iPad app would ever get such a radical overhaul — Netflix famously A/B-tests each and every potential new feature and only implements features that notably lead to higher engagement — and some features don’t actually make all that much sense. For example, one could argue that a pure on-demand service doesn’t really need a live Twitter stream, as the viewing experience is largely asynchronous.
But Grenier’s app mockup is nonetheless food for thought — and proof that there is still a lot media services can experiment with on mobile devices.
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iPad mini reportedly accounted for 64% of all iPads shipped last quarter
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New ‘iPad 5′ rear shell photo points to upcoming redesign yet again
Apple’s fifth-generation iPad hasn’t yet been unveiled, but at this point we likely have a fairly good idea of what to expect. The new “iPad 5″ will be thinner and lighter than Apple’s current model — which seems like an obvious assumption unless you consider the fact that the third-generation iPad was both thicker and heavier than its predecessor — and it will seemingly have a smaller overall footprint as well. In line with a series of earlier leaks, a newly published photo from case maker Tactus allegedly shows the next-generation iPad’s rear shell. It also reinforces numerous earlier reports suggesting the iPad 5 will feature a big redesign that adopts the iPad mini’s design aesthetic. According to a recent report from KGI Securities, which has a solid track record when it comes to information about unannounced Apple devices, the next-generation iPad will launch this coming August or September.
iPad 5 said to be 15 percent thinner, 25 percent lighter
The side of the current iPad.
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Apple’s next iPad will be both thinner and lighter than its predecessor, bringing back the company’s old habit of iPad shrinkage.
That’s according to KGI Securities analyst Mingchi Kuo, who in a note to investors last night said to expect a full-sized iPad that’s 15 percent thinner than the fourth-generation iPad, and that weighs 25 percent less.
That size reduction is due to a handful of tweaks, Kuo says. That includes a battery that’s 25-30 percent smaller, and improvements in display panels and A-series chip technology, which now slurp up less juice. Apple will also use the same touch technology found on the iPad mini, which is thinner than what it currently uses on its full-sized iPads.
“Thinness and lighter are key attributes,” Kuo said in the note. “We think one of the reasons iPad 3 and iPad 4 didn’t sell as well as expected was they are both heavier and thicker than iPad 2.”
Apple, of course, released both of those models within seven months of one another. The move ticked off third-generation buyers, but likely kept people from holding off on purchasing third-generation units with the company’s obsolete 30-pin connector.
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iPad mini shipments may drop by 30% in Q2 due to ‘lacking demand’
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