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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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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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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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Now that we are officially in the month of the iPad launch, a scary rumor has popped up about the iPad. According to some analyst, there has been a technical problem at Hon Hai Precision’s iPad production and has a result the first launch of the iPad will be limited to the US and will have a low number of units available. Hon Hai Precision is better known as Foxconn, Apple’s manufacturer of choice for many Apple products.

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen — we all saw this one coming from miles away. iPad was the most talked about thing at this year’s MacWorld and Apple wasn’t even there. Not only that, the iPad is not even available for purchase yet. However, these are probably the things that give it the mystical value that it seems to have. In fact, we can only experience it through the few select people who got to touch it and the many people who developing or making accessories for it. The latter two were aplenty at MacWorld, as is only to be expected.

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You know, ever since Apple released its first ‘i’ product, the path for a lot of brand names starting with ‘i’ was paved in stone. But that didn’t turn out so good for Apple because a lot of other companies felt like it was a great way to name their products and hence they started using the ‘i’ prefix.

Many ‘i’ jokes later, we had the iPhone which faced trademark heat in multiple areas in the world. But since Apple cannot give up its penchant for naming devices generically with the ‘i’ prefix attached, it has run into trademark trouble once again with the iPad. After Fujitsu, it is turn for a French-Italian company called STMicroElectronics. Looks like they spent a lot of sleepless nights coming up with that name.

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