If you were holding off from buying an iPad due to it not having enough storage capacity you are in luck. Apple has released the new 128GB iPad 4. It’s gone on sale in the UK today. The price is a predictable £639 for the Wi-Fi only version (as the storage doubles from 16GB to 32GB to 64GB to 128GB, £80 is added to the unit price), add yet another £100 and you can have the Wi-Fi & cellular version. Meanwhile hackers have released a new Jailbreak program which is able to unchain your Apple iOS 6.1 mobile device.
Both versions of the new 128GB iPad 4 are available to order now but Apple’s UK website is indicating a wait of one to three business days before the tablet will be despatched. This new addition to the iPad lineup was announced last month but we thought it wasn’t really newsworthy as all that is different is the price and the storage capacity. All else remains the same; the 9.7-inch Retina display, Apple A6X chip, and FaceTime HD camera. For your convenience your new iPad comes with the latest iOS 6.1 mobile operating system update already installed, an update only released a week ago.
Apple’s press release, when it announced the 128GB iPad, suggested that the extra storage capacity would allow users to “Create and enjoy even more incredible content”. It could be used to store more photos, documents, projects, presentations, books, movies, TV shows, music and apps. “With more than 120 million iPads sold, it’s clear that customers around the world love their iPads, and every day they are finding more great reasons to work, learn and play on their iPads rather than their old PCs,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With twice the storage capacity and an unparalleled selection of over 300,000 native iPad apps, enterprises, educators and artists have even more reasons to use iPad for all their business and personal needs.”
The Apple iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro, head-to-head in retailers shortly
Conspiracy theorists might have an inkling that Apple has released this “iPad Pro” (so called by The Guardian) to disrupt the launch of Microsoft’s Surface Pro, due later in the week. However a purchaser would have had to have done very little or no research at all before setting off to purchase, to confuse these two rivals. However there’s a whole article about the clash in release timetables published upon TechCrunch.
iOS 6.1 jailbreak utility released
Yesterday a new utility was released which allows iOS 6.1 users to Jailbreak their device. The Evasi0n jailbreak utility allows iOS 6.1 users to load applications from outside the official Apple App Store and to access iOS system files usually hidden from view. The new Evasi0n jailbreak is an untethered jailbreak so once it’s done the device remains jailbroken, even after a reboot.
Forbes magazine today called the new Evasi0n utility “The Most Elaborate Jailbreak To Ever Hack Your iPhone”. Frobes reveals that the “crack” was used at least 800,000 times within the first six hours of its release and that by today the count was already at 1.7 million. Please be careful if you intend to use the utility as there has been some teething problems reported with the hack.
