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And the frenzy has already started. Apple started the pre-order quite early today at 5:30am PT. The store was down as usual before that but this time at least we knew what was going on. There’s isn’t much to report. The shipping date has not changed (thankfully) and when you go to the Apple store now, you will see the iPad right before the iPhone and it has a prominent ‘Pre-order’ sticker above. Shipping seems to be free. WiFi-only models ship on April 3rd and the 3G models ship later the same month. The exact date has not been declared.

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There’s still no answer to the question whether or not Apple will sell the iPad in China any time soon. Just like with the iPhone, there is a lot of demand for the device in China that is fueling the existent cloning attempts made by chinese manufacturers. In addition to that, there is a burgeoning grey and black market that is getting ready to make money off iPads imported from countries where they are officially on sale.

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ARM is a company that is in a very good position to know and guess exactly how many tablet devices are coming out globally. Since most of these devices use ARM-designed low-power, high performance chips, it is easy for ARM to keep a track of these things. Even Apple’s iPad uses what is suspected to be a modified ARM Cortex A8/A9 chip (we are actually quite sure about it being an ARM chip, we’re just waiting for the tear down reports). So ARM has spilled the beans — it expects over 50 different tablet devices to come out globally by the end of this year.

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I have covered the Entourage eDGe dualbook several times on this blog. It has almost been a charting of growth as the company moved from alpha to beta to final release. Now they have acquired a content deal with PressDisplay which allows eDGe users to received select newspapers on their Dualbooks.

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Yes, that is what you should do when you legal notices bring you nothing but a tiny bit of media coverage that calls your bluff anyway. The Great Loong brother, China, is a manufacturer of Tablet devices. They had issued a legal notice against Apple with the claim that Apple copied their design with the iPad. What actually happened is that they basically made a tablet that carried the iPhone aesthetics very accurately and released it before Apple launched the iPad.

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Of course, this is not much to get excited over, just that Apple has released a new beta version of the iPad SDK and there are a few significant omissions. And as you might know — omissions are extremely important when it comes to causing rumors and telling us things without telling us.

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As with the iPhone, Apple debuted it’s iPad Ad during the Oscars this Sunday. Everyone saw it and everyone thought what they did. But a lot of people took the pains to go through the entire ad frame by frame and uncover hitherto unknown tid bits. TUAW even analyzed the air time that each feature got and made a pie chart out of it! We are lucky to be surrounded by such people.

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Asus is saying that they want to compete with the Apple’s new iPad and hence they are planning and working on similar products which they hope to release in the near future. The company wants to build on the things they see as the Apple iPad’s weaknesses.

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Apple has recently announced the shipping dates for the iPads. The pre-orders will begin soon — 12 March and the WiFi-only models are expected to hit the shelves on April 3rd. Will there be a mad rush like usual? Well, since this is Apple and it is one of their major products — my guess would be yes. What about the 3G model and what about the rest of the world though?

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Sony — a company that has its fingers in so many pies, it has to have a zillion fingers to do that! They are practically in every consumer and prosumer gadget category you can think of and hence, they too are going to try their hand at defeating Apple in the handheld segment. Not that sony is new to the whole handheld market (hello, PSP!) but this time they are looking at the whole hog.

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