5/12/2010

A Software Fix for iPad Troubles

A software update to solve wireless network connectivity issues with some iPads will be forthcoming from Apple, but the company has not offered a time frame for the fix.

In an updated support document on the Apple site, the company says: “A very small number of iPad users have experienced issues with Wi-Fi connectivity. This article outlines workarounds for these issues. Apple will also address remaining Wi-Fi connectivity issues with a future iPad software update.”

Apple did not respond to a request for amplification on the matter.

As I reported in Gadgetwise last month — days after the Wi-Fi iPad went on sale on April 3 — Apple acknowledged that iPad user may have problems connecting over third-party routers, and that, “under certain conditions, iPad may not automatically rejoin a known Wi-Fi network after restart or waking from sleep.” The annoyances include weak Wi-Fi signals or the inability to connect to a network.

While router issues were to blame for some problems, the troubleshooting tips currently posted on the Apple Web site and the prospect of a downloadable fix indicate that the trouble is also related to iPad software.

Among Apple’s suggestions for do-it-yourself resolutions for iPad owners are to insure that the router’s firmware is up to date, increase the screen brightness control if brightness is set to a low level, and try using WPA or WPA2 settings for wireless security encryption, since WEP settings are older and less efficient.

China Mobile interested in bringing Apple iPad to China

China's dominant mobile carrier, is interested in selling Apple's iPad tablet computer in China, the company's chairman said.

The company was also talking to Apple about developing a next-generation iPhone that runs on TD-SCDMA, the home-grown third-generation (3G) mobile standard being used by China Mobile, Chairman Wang Jianzhou said at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday.

China Mobile announced on Tuesday that it had set up a unit in Taiwan, paving the way for its long-stalled purchase of a 12 percent stake in Taiwanese mobile carrier Far EasTone.

Ipad can't be alone for along time !

Google/Verizon Tablet: Android-based tablet is going to compete with the iPad.

Google and Verizon Wireless are working on an tablet together. That bit of scuttlebutt comes from a pretty well-connected source: Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam, who spilled the beans to the Wall Street Journal today. The device will run the Android OS, and that's about all we know about it so far-but Verizon says it'll have more details later this week. (And maybe Google will have something to say at its I|O conference next week.)

This gizmo will, of course, compete with Apple's iPad. It joins the land rush of would-be iPad killers that don't actually exist yet (and, in some cases, may never exist).

Does iPad has problems with wireless communication !?


Does iPad has problems width wireless communication !?
iPad will be commercialised in 10 countries this month

May be its too early to talk about evaluating the Apple's iPade and its compatibility with the Arab market, because the device has not been raised for commercialization outside the United States, but the problem match the specifications of wireless connectivity in the device with the regulations in force in some countries call for a halt.

Although the overall impression left by the device when users via Web sites and blogs was positive, it appeared some of the problems often associated with the first version of any device or system.

Most important of these problems were related to wireless communication - a key feature in any iPade - both in the United States or abroad, in the United States, the problem of disconnection and weak signal reception for the network card integrated with the device.

And wireless 802.11 a three criteria is that the lobby Ji (n, g, b) The difference between them is an area of coverage and data transfer speed, where the device to select one of these versions of the wireless transmission automatically based on signal strength and the type of network card.

But in the case of any ThinkPad does not device so when you reconnect, and to solve this problem temporarily requested the manufacturer users to identify the network name is different for each version.

Outside the United States has emerged the problem of match and harmonize the force signal with the standard the U.S., although the communication standards of the European (802.11 a, g, n) using the same frequencies, the strength of signal of the standard itself is less than in states that adopt European standards, which may lead to prevent the use of the device in these countries.

Specifications and standards
Israel was the first countries that had prevented the entry of any ipade - Although the power of attorney manufacturer (Apple) owned HEMI Perez I'm the President of Israel - under the pretext that the strength of signal of the device can be confusing to other communication devices associated with the defense systems, but returned and let the device without giving any explanations .

To avoid the problem of matching specifications assumed in the product to get a certificate from the body competent to do so in each country so as to allow negotiable, but the after the rapid spread of Internet and communication devices over wireless networks States have become dependent on the commitment of manufacturers specifications and standards without being examined organs before authorizing use.

Will present the device in the markets of nine countries - not Arab - in 28 of the current month, and we'll see then how identical specifications of those versions of the regulations and specifications of States that would be delivered by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and Britain.