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Apple iPad: could be cheaper, really!

Mauro Dalu

Steve-Jobs-and-iPadiSuppli Corp. reported that the multi-touch 9.7-inch display on the iPad could cost around $80, while its custom-designed A4 processor would cost about $17 per unit. The 16GB of memory is estimated to cost about $29.50.

Total parts cost would be $219.35… well below the starting price of $499 for the 16GB iPad. Manufacturing costs add just $10 to the total cost of the low-end model, bringing it to $229.35.

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iPhone hidden features: Bluetooth headset support and Voice Control

Mauro Dalu

iphone-voice-control-bluetooth-headset-musicThis is the first of an article series about features our iPhones have that are not-so-obivous until you find them and try them once. All these features are explained somewhere on the web, and most of them are well detailed on Apple’s website, but, if you’re like me, you’re not going to explore that website searching for features of your iPhone – you’ll search for a feature the moment you need it.

Voice Control is a new feature Apple introduced with the iPhone 3GS. You can use your voice to make a call or to play music… even through a bluetooth headset.

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Core Data Story: an introduction to iPhone SDK database abstraction technology

Ivan Kalaica

iphone-sdk-core-dataSo, what’s Core Data anyway? :)
Core Data helps you to save model objects (in the sense of the model-view-controller design pattern) to a file and get them back again. This is similar to archiving technology but Core Data offers much more than that. Amongst other things it…

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iPhone Christian Prayers App in the Top 10 for Reference apps in Italy

Mauro Dalu

iphone-prayer-appPrayers is an easy-to-use, multi-language Christian Prayers database. It represents the ultimate reference to Catholic Prayers for iPhone and iPod Touch.
The native iPhone app is in the top 10 of the Reference Category in the Italian App Store, and in the top 100 apps for the Reference Category in Spain and France.

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How to intercept navigation in a UIWebView

UIWebView is a great control to display formatted text (using HTML language). That text might contain links that you want to intercept in Objective-C and do a specific action (push a new view for example).

You can do this by implementing UIWebViewDelegate protocol…

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Some quick Rhodes tips: using helpers

Rhodes allows you to create and use helpers, short methods you typically use to DRY your views. Very much the same as the ones you encounter in Rails. There are a number of caveats though.

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iPad & iPhone GUI User Interface Elements for Photoshop Prototyping

Mauro Dalu

ipad-gui-prototyping-in-photoshopWe discussed in the past what are the best tools out there to create mock-ups for an iPhone application storyboard — a document that describes the app flow and the desired user interaction that will get you much closer to prototyping.

A few days since the iPad has been shown in public for the first time and the iPhone SDK with the iPad simulator has been released, the first Photoshop (PSD) library of GUI (User Interface) elements has surfaced on the web…

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Apple iPad: will it be a success or a flop?

Mauro Dalu

Apple-iPad-MosesThe new iPad. Will it be a success? Will it be a flop? Why people complain about it? Is it worth to get my apps optimized for the iPad? What if it will be a huge flop?

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iPad influencing the tablet market

Brad Midgley

Steve-Jobs-and-iPadMy first thought on seeing this image today was “wow… Steve Jobs looks really small now behind his big iPhone”. Fortunately, this isn’t a case of Steve shrinking, it’s the mobile computer that got bigger.

I believe there is a lot of potential for the Apple tablet and I’m excited to write software for it. I was a little bit disappointed with the realization that it is also a closed device…

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Apple iPad price starting at $499, available in March

Mauro Dalu

Apple-iPadApple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited Apple Tablet today: the official name is iPad.

“iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price,” Jobs said. “iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”

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