Due to some unknown reason, China had a law that disallowed the shipping of Wi-Fi devices; rather you had to use the version indigenous to China called WAPI. WAPI is a special wireless designation much like Wi-Fi that could potentially allow the Chinese government to eavesdrop on every transmission made. This was done according to the government to keep a check and as they say due to threat from other countries. This event is not something new. Because of their pride and unwillingness to pay royalty fees, the Chinese, invariably have copied a Western Standard and made it their own.

Nevertheless, the news: Soon, the official unlocked iPhone4 reseller of China, China Unicom, will be permitted to sell the models currently available in the West, which implies that they will finally be Wi-Fi enabled. As the black market for imported iPhones is rather large the operator was encouraging this quite enthusiastically.

As they have got cater to the needs of more than a billion people of the Chinese population.

It will be interesting to see whether the much hyped iPhone will be able to live up to the hype and cater to the smart phone audience in the booming economy of China. Speaking of the  iPhone 4, rumour has it that the Apple and China Unicom folks are working to bring not only the stainless steel phone but also the iPad, which recently got the government approval to China. But seeing the way things are in China it may take ‘ages’ for the iPad to arrive. China being one of the world’s largest economies, it is expected to embrace the iPhone like the “western world”. But in order to put up a fight against the grey market, the phones have to be priced strategically.

This is something which is always close to our heart for the people who have been into gaming when they were small. This will surely be the case when the new Space Invaders HD releases as a game on the Apple app store and can be used on the iPad. This version of Taito’s very popular game Space Invaders had released on the unlocked iPhone 4 but this new HD version is slightly different which can only be used on the iPad. Furthermore, this is not some kind of evolution of the new and improved Space Invaders Infinity which is not the original version of the game which we are pretty fond of. If we may say, this recreation of the older game is pretty good and we really like it when some classic game is recreated like this.

This game is of course slightly different from the version which was earlier released version for the mobile phone. First and foremost, the screen of the iPad can be used for this game with dedicated controls which will be there at the bottom of the screen. The game surface covers most of the top part of the screen and the lower part will sport the shot button and the joystick. The game will however only support a single player mode and the bottom controller can be used to control the ship in the game. Other than this you will also get the somewhat dicey Accelerometer control which can be adjusted from the iPad’s control which goes by the same name.

However for the people who do not want to only play a single player mode, there is an option for double player mode which is much like the classic arcade game where you can sit on the either side of the iPad and can control the game when it is your turn.

Apple finally announced the iPad.  This will be Apple’s attempt into the tablet market.  Since they announced it there has been a lot of praise about it, but there is also one major downside.  There is no flash on the Apple iPad.  This is a problem because it doesn’t allow people to check out flash websites or play flash games.

While Engadget was at the press conference they snapped a picture showing the blue missing plugin icon.

This isn’t a completely unexpected move by Apple considering the iPhone and iPod Touch don’t have flash either, but everyone really wants it.

I guess only time will tell if we will get it, but for now we want to know what our readers think

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The Apple tablet has finally been announced.  After a lot of speculation Apple’s big event today finally confirmed what Apple is calling the iPad.  It looks like an over-sized iPhone but with better specs.  It will be able to run apps from the apps store, work like the Amazon Kindle and have the ability to download books, and it will have Apple iWorks.

The specs are

• 0.5″ thick and 1.5lbs light
• 9.7″ IPS display, capacitive multitouch touchscreen
• Built-in accelerometer, mic, 30-pin connector, 802.11n Wi-Fi, compass, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• 10 hours of battery life and one month standby time!
• 1GHz Apple A4 processor
• 16GB, 32GB and 64GB Flash storage

With up to 64GB of storage this tablet looks like it will definitely make some waves in the technology world.  Stay tuned

[image courtesy BoyGeniusReport.com]