In a press release issued by the company, Apple has today announced that the iPad mini, fourth generation iPad with Retina display, and the iPhone 5, will all be launching in China over the next few weeks.
Barclays Bank has become one of Apple’s biggest customers after acquiring 8,500 iPads. The devices will be issued to staff in Barclays branches throughout the U.K. in an effort to improve customer service. The company says it tried other tablets, but it found the iPad to be the best.
In addition to a range of charging accessories from Belkin and Scosche, Apple’s Lightning connector now has its first official audio accessories. Harman today announced what it claims are the world’s first Lightning connector speaker docks to market – the JBL OnBeat Micro, and the JBL OnBeat Venue LT.
Apple has posted a couple of new iPad mini TV adverts on its YouTube channel. The first advert, titled “Photos”, shows an iPad and an iPad mini being used to view images in iPhoto. Rather than showing the same photos on both devices, the two combine to complete one scene – for example, a snow capped mountain is shown on one, while a snowboarder is shown on the other.
Good news for anybody thinking of buying a fourth-generation iPad – Apple appears to have caught up with the demand for the new device already. Yesterday, the Cupertino company’s US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Singapore online stores all started showing the device as being “In Stock”, and today the same has happened here in the UK.
Apple’s new Lightning connector, which was unveiled with the iPhone 5 back in September, now has its first official accessories. Belkin today announced a car charger and a dock, which it says are the first of several new Lightning compatible products that the company will be launching this year.
In a press release issued by the company, Apple today announced that it has sold three million iPads since the launch of the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad last Friday. Unfortunately, Apple has not revealed how that figure breaks down between the different models, or whether or not it also includes sales of the iPad 2.
Following yesterday’s launch of the iPad mini in 34 countries, Apple has started airing a television advert for it. Titled ‘Piano’, the advert opens with one hand playing the tune “Heart and Soul” in GarageBand on a full-sized 9.7-inch iPad. This is then joined by a second hand playing along on the 7.9-inch iPad mini.
Apple’s flagship retail store on Fifth Avenue in New York City sold all of its iPad mini stock this morning within two hours. Despite relatively short queues elsewhere, and the effects that Hurricane Sandy has had on the city, more than 800 people were waiting in line for the device at the Manhattan store when it opened its doors at 10:00am