The Verge has just confirmed that despite the new iPad’s super fast download speeds over LTE, FaceTime video chat still requires an active Wifi connection to work. Apple has once again blocked the use of FaceTime over regular data connection, without considering the blazing fast speeds of 4G networks. As noted by the source, Steve Jobs said “FaceTime’s going to be Wi-Fi only in 2010. We need to work a little bit … Read More

The embargo has just been lifted on new iPad reviews, and the major publications that received demo units have started to publish their reviews. Here’s a round up of reviews posted so far (we’ll update this post as more are published):

Walt Mossberg from AllThingsD
Joshua Topolsky from The Verge (and The Washington Post)
David Pogue from The New York Times
Jim Dalrymple from The Loop
MG Siegler from TechCrunch
Jon … Read More

In a report by Bloomberg yesterday, it was claimed that Samsung was Apple’s sole supplier of new iPad’s Retina display panels after LG and Sharp failed to meet Apple’s quality requirement. However, Reuters is now reporting (via MacRumors) that LG is also providing Retina displays for the new device.

According to Reuters:

Flat screen maker LG Display Co Ltd is supplying touch-screen panels for Apple Inc’s new Read More

Patently Apple is reporting that Apple has been awarded 7 new registered designs in Canada, which are considered equivalent to the US Patent and Trademark Office’s design patents. These designs cover the iPad an the Smart Cover. Interestingly, there’s a peculiarity in one of the registered designs which involves its classification detailing including the word “TV”.

Quoting from the source:

The breakdown of the registered Industrial Designs fall into three distinct categories which are:

The First Category … Read More

Apple earlier today confirmed their 8AM retail opening on Friday to start new iPad sales. Now, confirmation has come that Future Shop will do the same (and probably Best Buy too). The Future Shop community forums noted the time by an associate from their Burnaby Head Office (thx @paulmontag):

Hi Everyone,

We just got word that all stores will open at 8am this Friday Mar 16 for the … Read More

We reported yesterday that Apple stores are likely to start selling the new iPad at 8:00 AM on March 16th and now, Apple has just made it official with a press release that the new Retina display iPad will indeed go on sale on Friday at 8:00 am in Canada, United States and 8 other countries which include Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, as well as … Read More

Just hours ago, we published the first ever unboxing video of Apple’s new Retina iPad and now, the same folks have published Geekbench benchmarks of the device. The results reflect that the new iPad’s ‘quad-core’ graphics A5X chip contains a 1 GHz processor while there is 1 GB of RAM on board.

Interestingly, the new iPad received a total Geekbench score of 756 which is almost identical to that of … Read More

Last year, Apple Canada started iPad 2 sales at 5pm in the early evening, and online pre-orders started at 1AM in the morning. Canada was also part of the second wave of countries to get the iPad 2. This time around for the new iPad, we were included as part of the initial launch on Friday, March 16th.

9to5Mac posts an image of a poster received … Read More

While the official launch date of Apple’s new iPad is March 16th, lucky folks at Vietnamese website Tinhte.vn have managed to get their hands on one of the new Retina iPads and have posted an unboxing video. The video doesn’t reveal anything we don’t already know but you can always enjoy watching the first ever unboxing of Apple’s latest creation. The video also shows the LTE toggle in the settings.app.

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Apple just sent out an email blast to customers that pre-ordered the new iPad last week that it will indeed arrive on Friday, March 16th for ‘Zone 1′ customers, with tracking to be available on March 15th. This essentially confirms what Apple told us with their Canadian delivery map we first noted.

The email is both in French and English, with the latter version looking this:

Dear Apple Customer,

Thank … Read More