iPad 2 launch ready

You may have heard already, but Apple is set to launch the next iPad. The super/ultra cool electronic window pill (iPad 2) is yet to be named but is believed to be available some time in April next year (according to "reports"). The company that manufactures products for Apple, Foxconn Electronics is getting pumped to make 600,000 units of the iPad 2 over the next 100 days in their massive Chinese slave powered sweatshops where no-one gets decent pay or pay at all  factories.
The electro-powered tablet will be shipping around February after some crappy firmware set the whole thing back schedule (not that you'd actually care because you can't buy them til' their in shops).
Lots of people are expecting a huge number of new features in the new iPad such as the over-rated Retina Display (smaller but more numerous pixels for a better image quality), dual-cameras (camera on the inside and outside) to enable the Facetime chat, bigger/smaller screens (for more variety = more money) and a thinner shell (for posh people that are convinced the smaller a computer is, the better). Not to mention a built in USB port for (obviously) "USB's", cameras, printer cords, mouse cords, keyboards, speakers and lamps. Oh wait! Apple is too stupid to put something as simple as a USB port in because it's not cool.
Ok fine if there is a USB port, let's hope for a USB 2.0 at the least (USB 3.0 optimal).

The thing I'm confused with is why are they releasing a new iPad when the old one is pretty good and is only about a year old? They could squeeze so much more cash out of the bad boy before laying smack-down with the new one. One could say that the reason for this quick release is that Apple consider the iPad 2 so damn good that it just can't wait. Or maybe people are complaining that they can't see their girlfriends/boyfriends on video chat. Or maybe it's that long line of wannabe professional competitors that are hastily producing iPad equivalents. But then, dear Apple fan who cares? Just hope it's a good one.

Apple ipod Nano Gen 6 Preview

As you might have heard, the new gen 6 ipod Nano has been released. It features a small square design with a screen of 240x240 pixel resolution. It has a clip just like the ipod Shuffle and is available in seven colours that make collectors drool. The 6th gen is 46% smaller and 42% lighter then the gen 5 model. But even with these features, the biggest thing is the ipod Nano's heat sensitive touch screen. Now with the ability to respond to your spinning, sliding, tapping, swiping and shaking commands, the ipod Nano is just like a compact, baby version of the ipod Touch (which there is also a new model). Though still with only a max of 16GB of flash memory, the new design really brings out the meaning of "nano".
Although Apple fans will be over the moon with the upgrade, others will find many faults. For the first (and least significant), the new ipod requires you to download iTunes 10. A massive filesize for people with slow internet connection. The screen is over 100pixles shorter then the last one (generation 5) and features no camera or microphone. Worst of all there is no video playback, meaning all those movies, clips and other things that you might have would have gone to waste. All this means that it isn't much more then a slightly larger ipod Shuffle (which there is also a new model) with a touch screen. Don't worry sport people, it's compatible with Nike +
Overall, I'd stay with the 5th generation or get the ipod Touch. Shuffle is not recommended.
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