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Some 85,000 customers waiting patiently, and some not so patiently, were rewarded with good news about their Pebble smart watch. At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics show, the company behind the Pebble announced that after months of delays, the e-paper watch will start shipping on Jan. 23. The product is well known as one of the best-funded projects on Kickstarter, raising more than $10 million last May.

Originally, the Pebble watch was expected to ship last September. But the Pebble team informed its many backers of a number of delays. Some had hoped for delivery in time for the 2012 holiday season, but that time came and went. Perhaps as some consolation for the wait, the Pebble team announced Wednesday that two additional sensors would be part of the watch: a magnetometer, for compass-like functions, and ambient light sensors. Both will be enabled in a future update.

The black-and-white faced watch is compatible with both Apple’s iPhone and various Google Android handsets. When connected wirelessly to a supported handset, the Pebble can receive notifications for incoming text messages, calls, emails, and provides alerts for calendar appointments, weather alerts, Twitter and Facebook. Because the watch uses a low-powered e-paper display, it can run on a single charge for up to a full week.

Perhaps more important than the basic phone notifications and alerts, however, is the promise of third-party application support. A Pebble SDK is available for developers and one of the early partners is the RunKeeper exercise tracking application. Although the watch will ship later this month, the app integration with RunKeeper isn’t expected until March.

After the dust of this holiday season settles, it’s very likely we’re going to be looking at yet another quarter for the mobile industry that was dominated by Galaxy and iDevices. In a new report, IDC says Samsung and Apple will continue to lead the way in smartphone and tablet sales this holiday quarter as part of an estimated 362 million mobile devices shipped worldwide, which will be worth $170 billion, both records for the industry.

The predictions, which also include estimates for PCs, are informed by the expectation that a lot of people are going to unwrap mobile device gifts this month: Tablet shipments are expected to increase 55.8 percent this holiday over last year’s; smartphone shipments are expected to jump 39.5 percent in the same time frame, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device Tracker, published Monday. And yes, this all continues to happen at the expense of PCs, IDC says.

Total expected shipments this holiday quarter of 362 million devices would be a 26.5 percent increase over the same period a year ago. It would also be a big step up from the last quarter, which also broke records. The third quarter of 2012 saw 303.6 million mobile devices shipped worldwide, worth $140.4 billion.

As the above chart shows, worldwide connected mobile device shipments continue to be mostly a battle between Samsung and Apple. Samsung currently leads with about 22 percent of the worldwide market, and Apple is next with 15 percent. However, Apple continues to dominate in profits: IDC says Apple devices commanded an average selling price of $744; Samsung’s $430.

Together, the two account for close to 40 percent of all connected mobile device shipments. Lenovo, which is in third place, continues to see major growth in its shipments, but its market share is still half that of Apple’s and a third of Samsung’s.

Numbers like these helps explain why Apple and Samsung continue spending millions on court battles all over the world – no one else is remotely a threat to their dominance in sales or profits.

Apple is already preparing to ship early iPad Mini pre-orders of Wifi-only models for delivery on Friday, November 2, the official launch date for the device, according to MacRumors who is reporting with reference to a couple of its forum reports and a Twitter user from UK and Germany respectively.

Apple typically updates order status to “Preparing for Shipment” just before arranging with delivery companies like UPS and FedEx to have shipments held until the launch date.

The first wave of 16GB white iPad mini pre-orders in Canada sold out in less than 24 hours and is now showing 2 weeks availability. Similarly, the initial pre-orders for 16GB Wi-Fi models in black have now also been sold in Canada, though US Apple Store still shows availability for all black models. No estimated date for initial deliveries of Wi-Fi + Cellular models in Canada has yet been specified by Apple.

Are you seeing the updated status for your iPad Mini pre-order yet?

Apple Getting Ready To Ship Early iPad Mini Pre-Orders is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog – Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

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iPad mini pre-orders kicked off last night just after midnight PDT for customers in Canada, the U.S. and selected launch countries around the world. In what may seem like an interesting decision, the iPad mini ships with a regular USB Power Adapter.

Apple’s online store does not specify the adapters that come with iPads, only the Apple Store app reveals the charger type included indicated under “What’s in the Box”. However, as you may already know regular iPads ship with a 10W power adapter, and Retina iPad users have complained about long charging times. In response, Apple introduced a brand new 12W power adapter in the online Apple Store, and according to the company it will speed up the charging process.

While the 12W USB power adapter is compatible with the iPad mini, don’t expect the peripheral to be in the box when your iPad mini arrives. While finishing our pre-order in the first few minutes of availability, we noticed that the device will ship with a 5W USB power adapter, the only iPad-compatible power adapter that ships with iPhone or  iPod models.

Yes, this is the same power adapter you get when you unbox your iPhone 5, which may seem strange. As the iPad mini tech specs show, the 7.9-inch tablet comes with a 16Wh battery. This is three times the 5.5Wh battery found in the iPhone 5 and a third of the Retina iPad’s massive 42.5Wh battery.

So our first reaction was: this must certainly show that the iPad mini’s 16Wh battery doesn’t require a lot of extra juice to charge, because it is smaller than the regular iPad’s battery. That’s great–but how long will the charging time end up being? Will that be three times the iPhone 5 charging time? We’ll soon find out next week once early benchmarks and reviews hit the web.

The iPad mini display has the same resolution as the iPad 2 at 1,024 x 768, yet it has a smaller battery and it ships with a 5W power adapter. Will it live up to Apple’s standards?

Secondly: is Apple cutting costs here? Why can’t we have a 12W power adapter just like the fourth generation iPad? Maybe it’s just not necessary.

Apple’s iPad mini to Ship with 5W USB Power Adapter from the iPhone is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog – Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

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Apple.ca is now live and orders are available for the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad. If you want a seamless way to order your iPad mini, use the Apple Store app. It’s just too easy.

However, it looks like white iPad minis will take two weeks to ship to Canada versus black models. Check it out below–here’s black:

…and here are the white models which notes availability in ’2 weeks’:

The US online store shows one week shipping times for both colours, so let’s hope this changes for Canada. As for the fourth generation iPad, pre-orders are noted to deliver by next week.

What did you order tonight?

iPad mini Pre-Orders Start; White Models Ship in 2 Weeks to Canada is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog – Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

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There’s certainly no shortage of iPhone case manufacturers out there. You can’t even pick up beef jerky at the local Speedway without finding cases to buy. But how many of these iPhone 5 accessory
developers offer cases to be used with other cases? WaterField Designs does, and they’re ready to begin shipping them to you this week.

The iPhone Wallet, the Smart Case, the Suede Jacket, and the Hint come in two sizes: one to fit the iPhone 5 when encased in a third-party, play-through shell, and one for a “naked” iPhone 5.

We’ll let WaterField tell you all about them, via their press release:

The iPhone…

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If you’re hoping to be among the first to own the new iPad but you’re eyeing the 4G LTE version for AT&T, we’re sorry to inform you that you just missed your chance. If you place your order now for said version of the new iPad, Apple will not ship your device until March 19 as they’ve apparently sold out the initial stock of the new iPad WiFi+ 4G for AT&T.

This isn’t necessarily indication that this particular iPad model is selling well, because it’s unclear how much inventory Apple prepared. However, considering the new iPad preorder page ground to a halt soon after it reopened following yesterday’s iPad media event, we have to assume Apple saw a lot of business yesterday.

Those eyeing the Verizon iPad WiFi+4G can still get delivery on March 16th, at press time. The rest of the new iPad models also retain a March 16th delivery date.

So, which iPad are you getting? Are you willing to wait for the second batch of AT&T iPad WiFi+4G units or will you go with the Verizon version instead?

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According to new estimates by analyst firm Canalys, Apple could sell more PCs than current market leader HP during the first half of 2012. The key to Apple’s market dominance, however, is counting the category-busting iPad in addition to Mac sales.

The tipping point might come sooner, but Canalys thinks the launch of the iPad 3, expected sometime in the first or second quarter of 2012, will be the key to really putting Apple’s total shipments over the edge, propelling it from its current second-place spot to first overall.

Canalys estimates that global PC shipments will reach 415 million units worldwide by the end of 2011, an increase of 15 percent year over year, thanks in large part to tablet sales. In North America, shipment growth is predicted to be up around 18 percent compared with 2010, with all but one percent of that growth coming from tablet sales, and in Europe, without tablets, PC sales would actually be down from last year.

Apple recently crossed the 5 percent mark in terms of the global PC market, when only considering Mac sales, according to Charlie Wolf of Needham. It happened thanks to 22 straight quarters of Macs outperforming the general industry, with 43.8 percent growth year over year during the last quarter alone. With Mac sales growing, and Apple’s continued domination of the tablet market, it’s no wonder Apple will soon be on top of the game when you count the iPad among its PC offerings.

Some may see counting the iPad alongside PCs as something of a cheap move, but it actually makes a lot of sense. With the global PC market facing flat or negative growth, and tablets stepping in to replace traditional computers for a lot of use cases, it’s probably better to count them here than in any other grouping.

While Apple has a significant advantage now in terms of the iPad when it comes to tablet shipments, Amazon and Barnes & Noble are shaking up the low end of the market with their respective Android slates, too, so it’ll be interesting to see how those devices chart going into 2012. Who knows, maybe Amazon will eventually become a top PC manufacturer, at least according to scoring from firms like Canalys.

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If you’ve ever played Firemint’s Flight Control and gotten bored after landing your one thousandth plane, try Imangi Studios’ Harbour Master for a buoyant alternative. Rather than landing planes on their designated air strips, Harbour Master does as it implies and allows to you master the art of docking ships in their respective harbours.

The gameplay is really simple as your objective is literally just to drag the ships to their harbours. The interesting part is that dragging from the ship creates a path for them to follow, and you have to make sure that you can navigate the ships about the body of water so that they don’t collide against each other on their way to the docks. This may sound simple at first, but trust me the water gets really crowded really fast.

Even if you get bored of the normal game mode, there are other maps available that throw sea monsters, cyclones, and enemy submarines at you that you’ll have to get rid of by tapping and shooting. It shakes the game up a little and adds a whole other level to the mayhem that takes place.

The addictive gameplay and the smooth graphics make for a great title well worth checking out. If you haven’t checked out Flight Control, give that a gander as well if you’re more the “high in the sky” type. Either way, you’ll lose a good chunk of your spare time being the navigator for hundreds of vessels.

Click here to download Harbour Master, it’s $0.99.

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Apple finally launched the white iPhone 4 yesterday, and despite being just a new look for phone that’s nearly a year old (in a market where the vast majority of smartphone users feel obsolescence sneaks up quick), it made quite the splash. Some things aren’t exactly the same, either: the iPhone gained a little girth when it went white.

As mentioned yesterday, the white iPhone 4 did generate some lines, especially in Asia. In Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai lines were very long, reaching into the hundreds. Of the few reports of lines at North American locations, the longest seems to have reached around 10 people. It’s worth noting that the black iPhone 4 went on sale in China in September 2010, while in the U.S. it has been available since June. Conceivably, that could mean that U.S. buyers had more time to give in and buy the black iPhone rather than wait for the white model.

But it’s also a sign that Apple’s priorities may soon shift, as China and other emerging markets represent the largest potential growth markets for the company. Apple saw huge growth for the iPhone in China last quarter, and Strategy Analytics just released a report showing that Apple has passed ZTE Corp. to become the world’s largest handset maker as measured by shipments, for the first calendar quarter of 2011. ZTE is a Chinese phone maker, and arguably Apple’s biggest competition in the Chinese market.

The white iPhone definitely appears to be selling well in at least a few markets other than China, too, since ship times for the device have slipped to 5 business days from 3-5 days in some international stores, such as those in Italy, the UK, France and Spain. Apple typically prioritizes the U.S. when it comes to device shipments, so slipping ship times don’t necessarily indicate that those countries are the ones experiencing the strongest sales.

Finally, users who’ve had the chance to compare the white and black iPhones side-by-side have noted that the white version is just a hair thicker than the black one: 0.2 mm to be exact. It makes Apple’s marketing claim that the iPhone 4 is “the world’s thinnest smartphone” just a little less accurate than it had recently become. No word on what’s behind the extra girth, as Apple’s website still lists the official specs for both at the same at 0.37 inches. It could be that the extra UV protection the white paint requires accounts for some additional thickness. Reports so far suggest that the extra thickness isn’t significantly affecting the fit of most cases, but you should double-check before you buy one just to make sure.

The white iPhone 4 may be just a color change for a 10-month old device, but its reception provides a hint at the future of a possible shift in Apple’s primary buying public, and its production demonstrates Apple’s continued dedication to getting product design right prior to release. In the end, nobody can pull off new paint on an old barn quite like Apple.

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