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INTERNET New Ipad TALES from SOUTH the PACIFIC Bringing Wireless to the Disconnected 030912 #31 + Apple‘s INTERNET New iPad TALES from SOUTH the PACIFIC Bringing Wireless to the Disconnected BY DARREN MURPH Is Lytro’s Light Field Is Dell’s XPS 13 All And Steve Wozniak Camera Infinitely Better? Beauty and No Brawn? Takes on the Distro Q&A ADVERTISEMENT DISTRO Issue #31... “I can see the BlueSky cell tower from my fale; it doesn’t look like a detraction of the natural beauty. It looks like a broadcasting beacon of hope.” »Enter »Features »ESC EDITOR’S LETTER REVIEW Q&A The New, New iPad Lytro Light Field Camera Apple Co-Founder By Tim Stevens By Dante Cesa Steve Wozniak »THE WEEKLY STAT REVIEW LAST WORD The Travel Habits of Dell XPS 13 Tech Talk with Engadget’s Senior Editors By Tim Stevens Albert Quimbly By Billy Steele By Sean Pryor PREVIEW SWITCHED ON Forget the Numbers, This Is The iPad’s Landscape the ‘New’ iPad Orientation By Darren Murph By Ross Rubin FEATURE RECOMMENDED READING » Internet Tales from Google’s Watchful Eye the South Pacific and More By Darren Murph By Donald Melanson DISTRO | ISSUE #31 MARCH 9, 2012 The New, New iPad Editor’s Letter Well, we can finally stop talking about the iPad 3, reap the sweetest rewards. iPad 2S, iPad HD and the rest of its ilk. We now know But, even if the mere idea what the new iPad is going to be called — just that and of owning an Apple product nothing more. This finally signals a dose of sanity in makes you uncomfortable, the product naming for Apple’s iOS devices, which you’ll still be a winner in the are all more or less falling into annual releases like long run. Apple pushing this the company’s line of MacBooks, iMacs and so forth. resolution pushes the entire So, this means we’ll probably industry to keep up and it’s not get a “the new iPhone” this fall hard to imagine a time where — ending years of speculation all higher-end tablets and even on what the iPhone 5 will look laptops have Retina-caliber dis- like — and we can merrily go on plays. I wouldn’t be surprised if our way to a somewhat uncom- we get there within a year, and fortable future where the iPad is as a fan of things that look nice, actually newer and cooler than that makes me pretty excited. the iPad 2. This also begs the The other advancements in question of what Apple might the new iPad are rather less choose to call a smaller, lower- groundbreaking, but that end tablet should it ever decide doesn’t change the fact that to aim directly at Amazon’s the thing is going to be a huge Kindle Fire. Perhaps the iNote? seller, and the iPad 2, at $100 We have the full run-down ina LCD, looks like it will truly cheaper, won’t slow down. of the thing courtesy of Dar- push the industry forward. That wasn’t the only news ren Murph later in this issue, For ages we’ve been limping from the event, with Apple but name aside, we got exactly along with low-res portable unveiling some great new iOS what we expected with the new devices and only recently have apps, including a mobile ver- iPad — that is to say a device smartphones pushed into HD sion of iPhoto that is surpris- that looks almost exactly like territory — albeit only the land ingly powerful even for reason- the current one, including the of 720p. At CES a few tablets ably serious photogs — if they same visual styling and same showed promise of 1080p on a can find a good way to get their 9.7-inch glassy expanse on the slate, but Apple’s the first to get pics in the tablet. front. But, what’s beneath that something that chock full of Apple also upgraded the glass, the new 2048 x 1536 Ret- pixels to market and so it will AppleTV, moving it DISTRO | ISSUE #31 MARCH 9, 2012 up to 1080p support. It’s a nat- phones and the PS Vita as well. ural update since the iPad itself That’s good news for owners of now supports 1080p content, such devices, but we can still but still no sign of a proper TV think of a couple-dozen origi- from Apple. nal PlayStation games we’d There was one last interest- Apple pushing like to see ported over first. ing bit to the event that came this resolution In this week’s Distro we’re at the tail end of things. Tim pushes the entire naturally going to give you the Cook closed by saying “We’re run-down on the new iPad, just getting started” while industry to keep but there’s a heck of a lot more standing before a slide that up and it’s not than that. We have an amazing said “2012: There’s a lot to piece from our resident globe- look forward to.” It’s almost as hard to imagine trotter Darren Murph, talking if Apple was saying “Okay, so a time where all about the challenges of bring- this announcement was maybe ing broadband to the masses just a little tame, but we have higher-end tablets and, in a related feature, we’ll some really good stuff coming. and even laptops give you a look at just how Promise.” With two predomi- many frequent flier miles the nantly evolutionary product have Retina- Engadget team collectively launches down, maybe it’s time caliber displays. racked up last year. We have to start expecting something Dante Cesa’s review of the truly bonkers for the next. An revolutionary Lytro camera, Air-thin MacBook Pro with a my take on Dell’s evolution- Retina display? That’s my pie- ary Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, in-the-sky wish. Ross Rubin discusses where Now, you might not believe 22 Cans. No word on what the the new iPad fits in and Apple it, but there was some other Bullfrog veteran will be cooking co-founder Steve Wozniak sits news in the tech world this up next but we have it on good down for our Q&A. You won’t week, particularly from the authority that it will be slightly want to miss it and, if you’ve gaming front since the Game kooky and potentially zany. managed to get this far, you Developer Conference is going Also on the gaming front, shouldn’t have to. Enjoy. on — across the street from Sony announced the release of Apple, interestingly. a beta SDK for developers who Storied game producer Peter would like to push games to Molyneux of Lionhead Stu- the PlayStation Suite. It’s free dios, the creative voice behind for now but titles developed the Fable series among many through the full $99 version other amazing titles, stepped (which arrives “later this year”) TIM STEVENS away from his role at Microsoft will be eligible for deployment EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, to found a new outlet called through PlayStation Certified ENGADGET DISTRO | ISSUE #31 MARCH 9, 2012 ENTER: THE WEEKLY STAT Vancouver Seattle Portland Dublin London Berlin Montreal Paris Tokyo Albany NYC Barcelona Taipei Philadelphia Hong Kong San Francisco Washington DC Las Vegas Los Angeles San Diego DANA WOLLMAN MICHAEL GORMAN RICHARD LAI TIM STEVENS MYRIAM JOIRE DARREN MURPH BRIAN HEATER DON MELANSON AMAR TOOR RICHARD LAWLER CHRISTOPHER ZACH HONIG TROUT SOURCE: ENGADGET STAFF The Weekly Stat DISTRO | ISSUE #31 MARCH 9, 2012 ENTER: SWITCHED ON THE IPAD’S LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION Switched On Operating system advances have in many ways driven the two major classes of tablets seeking to grab a share of the iPad’s market. Windows 8 will bring the new Metro user interface and ARM support to allow the PC-class to scale down. While Android 4.0 unifies the platform’s tablet and smartphone op- erating systems, encouraging it to take better advantage of the larger screen capabilities, and scale up. ¶ Indeed, the full po- tential of the new iPad won’t be known until the next release BY ROSS RUBIN of iOS, as is typical of Apple’s historically tight pairing of can function as both a notebook PC hardware and software; that and a tablet, manufacturers have a other shoe will likely drop powerful marketing message that at its developer conference the best tablet is the one you don’t in June. Despite the lack of have to buy as a second device. a new operating system or On the software side, however, form factor, the third-gener- Microsoft is arguably asking Win- ation iPad and its now price- dows developers to make at least reduced predecessor have set as great a shift between the classic the stage for how Apple plans Windows user interface and Met- to defend against Android ro as Apple has between the Mac and Windows tablets. and iOS. Apple’s recent announce- ments better prepare the company Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) The View from Above for this challenge in three ways: is executive director and For a company with such a bolstering the device’s processor, principal analyst of the rich software history, Micro- improving its first-party produc- NPD Connected Intelligence soft challenges the iPad with tivity and creativity applications, service at The NPD Group. Windows tablets that seem to and showcasing how increasingly Views expressed in Switched rely more on bits than atoms. sophisticated apps such On are his own. In offering form factors that as Sketchbook Ink and DISTRO | ISSUE #31 MARCH 9, 2012 It is a level of favoritism that Google and Microsoft can never have for any given device..
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