Patently Apple has found new iPad design patents from China that show an extra 30-pin dock connector port that’ll allow for landscape docking and a mysterious feature which may be Apple’s “Smart Bezel Feature”. If this new design is real, it makes some sense (at least, more sense than a 7-inch iPad). Having the option to dock the iPad in landscape mode would double the convenience for iPad owners who, well,...

Ever wondered how the Kindle and iPad displays compare if placed under a microscope? Me neither, but some folks decided to see how things look magnified. They even got closer than the picture above:The first image shows the displays at 26x while the second gets extra close at...

What happens when a Windows 7 tablet takes on the iPad head to head in a series of every day usage battles? This video happens. Place your bets! The Hanvon Windows 7 slate shown here is presumably one of the many Windows 7 tablets Microsoft expects by year’s end. The surprise here isn’t that the Hanvon’s a clear winner—it’s not—but more that it’s able to at least keep up with (and often beat out) the iPad...

While web site Jailbreakme.com offers a one-click jailbreak for your iOS devices via mobile Safari, it also exposes a major security vulnerability. As it turns out, jailbreaking your iDevice may provide additional security options that make jailbreaking a more secure option. Because jailbreakme is able to function through a PDF vulnerability in iOS and can be easily adapted for malicious attacks, loading a PDF through mobile Safari may pose...