Apple rolls out 128GB iPad with Retina display on Feb 5th 2013.

Apple rolls out its first device of the year 2013 with 128GB iPad on 5th of February. Current models of iPad comes with different memory capacity with a max of 64GB. There is no much change in the device when compared to its predecessor. 

Price:-

1. Wifi Only - $799
2. Wifi + Cellular(4G) - $930

Are you an Apple's die hard fan and afford it just for increase in storage capacity, then go ahead. Please leave a comment in the comments section about the new iPad.

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Apple rumored to launch iPhone in many sizes and colors

Apple has reached to huge amount of users with its products and quality. As we have see from couple of years, Apple has announced different models of iPhone, iPod, iPads and MAC with lof of features such as Retina display, Processing speed and designs. Earlier, some users thought Apple do not launch hand-held devices in different sizes or colors(except 1 or 2 colors) but Apple proved them wrong by releasing iPhone and iPad in new size such as iPhone5, iPad mini. Some users thought they do not get chance to select device color as Apple has their devices only in 1 or 2 colors, so Apple came out with iPod touch in different colors recently in 2012 and now it might be the turn of iPhone as Apple might launch iPhone in different colors and sizes.

New model of iPhone which is rumored to be released by the end of 2nd quarter is reported to be called "iPhone5s". It is said to have about 8 colors and different sizes so as to reach lot many users and compete in the market. 

As reports, when Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller was asked whether Apple would launch iPhone in different sizes, many colors and also at cheaper price, he stated "Apple will never sacrifice quality in order to gain greater unit share in the market". 

Well, what do you think? iPhone will be available in different size and colors?

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Load SVG images in iPhone / iPad using Objective C

You might have struggled a lot to load SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)  image(s) in your iPhone or iPad application using Objective C XCode. Objective C with Cocoa helps us to load png, jpg, tiff and other image formats file using UIImage and UIImageView but UIImageView will not allow you to load SVG files. 

What are SVG images?

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a XML-based file format for two-dimensional vector graphics. SVG images and their behaviors are defined in XML text files. This means that they can be searched, indexed, scripted and, if required, compressed. As XML files, SVG images can be created and edited with any text editor, but it is often more convenient to create them with drawing programs such as Inkscape.

Now lets know how we can load SVG images in our iPhone or iPad application using Cocoa Objective-C.  UIWebView allows us to load SVG images directly to our app. The code to load SVG image is given below.

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"image" ofType:@"svg"];

NSURL *fileURL = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath:path];

NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:fileURL];

[webView setScalesPageToFit:YES];

[webView loadRequest:req];

Found interesting? Stay tuned at TechSpace for much more interesting solutions. Please leave a comment in comment  box if you have any queries.

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Android Tablet for 99$

People once thought, in a country like India tablets can never click a good monopoly here. But they're proven wrong. Not just by ipad or samsung tablets, India is now being a competitive market for tablets. Even the Government of India has shown its support with the 35$ tablet, cheapest tablet in the world. But now, a not-so-known company called LACS has released a tablet named Magnum Pepper M74V for 99$. That would be around Rs. 4500.

Magnum Pepper M74V Specifications -

7 inch LCD sensitive touch display (800*480)
WIFI enabled
Supports  10/100 BASE-T  Ethernet  LAN (RJ45)
Support  USB 2.0
Support Micro SD card (maximum 32 GB)
3G compatible dongle
3.5 mm stereo headset jack
G- sensors 360  degree
Front camera
Built in 2GB memory
Android 2.2 version
Supported  audio formats  eg: MP3,AAC,WMA,AAC+
Supported Video formats eg: 3GP, AVI, MP4, H.264,720P

Not many photos are available as of now. More details can be found on their website.

Stay tuned on Techspace for updates on Magnum Pepper.

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