Let’s face it there are some of us who love the iPad and some of us who hate it to bits. Those who love it point out to everything it can do and how great everything looks on it. Those who hate it point out that it is just a glorified iPod that has been blown up in size which still can’t perform true multitasking.

Whichever way you swing, the truth is that Apple reigns supreme in the tablet market. The design is good, the software is virtually bug free and the iPad is a nice size to hold. All of this makes it a very decent product indeed. Yes, it can’t multi task and no, you can’t play the latest PC or Mac games on it; but then it wasn’t designed to do any of that. The iPad is aimed at a very specific market and from the latest figures to emerge, the iPad seems to have cornered around 95 percent of it.

Yes, that’s right, the iPad is the king of the tablets – for now at least. It’s only real competitor is Android. Now, although Google does not have a tablet PC of its own (yet), other manufacturers are coming out with a variety of different tablet PC’s; all of those tablets are being powered by Google’s Android OS. The head start that Apple has in the Tablet market may soon be cut down drastically as people find that they have a varied choice of Tablet PC’s to choose from.

Losing a phone is traumatic enough for most people, but if you happen to work for Apple and the phone you lost was a prototype iPhone 4G, then you probably will have a heart attack. Gray Powell recently went to German beer garden to celebrate his 27th birthday and promptly lost his iPhone 4G. The person who found it apparently tried to locate the owner and upon failing to do so sold it to the gadget blog known as Gizmodo.

According to Briam Lam, the editorial director, the iPhone 4G was soon remotely shut down by Apple. This led to the interesting question of what type of control Apple has in store for us with the 4G or even now with the devices we have. After the news broke, Apple sent a letter to Gizmodo asking them to return the device. The website complied after making a few observations.

The prototype has a camera with a bigger lens at the back and includes a flash as well. A front facing camera was also present which hinted at video conferencing capabilities. An extra microphone was also spotted at the top of the device and this will probably be used for noise cancelling purposes.
Although the device looked more “boxy” than the 3GS, it is widely acknowledged that this may not be the final design. There are also several conspiracy theories going on about the find, including one that suggests that this was a plant by Apple to generate interest in the upcoming product.