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Gingerlab’s Notability is also an #app that I think makes the #Apple #iPad user experience unique from other tablets.

The Tweetbot app by Tapbots is another one of those things that makes the Apple iPad a great tablet to use daily.

One of the things that differentiates an #iPad from the rest of the #Android tablets is the #Flipboard app

Can you spot the real iPhone? I borrowed a #KIRF #iPhone 4 to try it out. It looks genuine until I turned it on.

Recently my wife decided to join the new generation of people that have an always connected phone. She decided that it’s going to be an iPhone for her. With the recent introduction of the Apple iPhone 4S in the local market, she decided to get one from Globe. With her officemate getting an iPhone from Smart, I decided to make a comparison between the two offerings in order to help other people in weighing their decision if they wanted to get an iPhone.  
 

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Has your iPhone 3GS suddenly started vibrating and won’t stop? I know someone who has an iPhone 3GS and this is what exactly happened to her. Just this morning, her iPhone suddenly started vibrating and wouldn’t stop. Then the screen suddenly went blank and the unit was getting hot.

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I have this crazy idea that Apple would decide to combine a MacBook Air and an iPad into one iDevice. Although you might say that I should get an ASUS Transformer Prime, it is actually not what I had in mind. I want something better than that. A mobile device that gives a mobile user the best of both worlds. The benefits of an instant on device like the iPad and the availability of a workhorse like the MacBook.

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I’ve just read this news about Google’s Android Market reaching it’s 10 billion download. But I have this crazy idea that this is not enough. They need to do something to really make Android and the Android Market work for the global audience — that is add Prepaid / Gift Card functionality to the Android Market ecosystem.

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I was able to borrow one of those KIRF (Keeping it Real Fake) iPhone 4. I decided to take some photos of the fake iPhone 4 side by side with the real thing. I must say, it’s really hard to spot the difference between the two by just physically looking at it.

When I got to hold the fake iPhone 4, I noticed that it was a bit lighter than the real iPhone 4. The thing that gave away its fakiness is when I started to turn on the iPhone. It doesn’t have the Retina display of the real thing among other things.

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