iPad 3 - 2019-2021

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 My iPad's suddenly drain to zero and unable to recharge it again. Last night it was still 49% battery and today it is kaput.

The total usage date is 24 months , 2019-09-22 until today 2021-10-04 

Consider it is second hand device price at RM420, can consider the device is value for the buck.

One thing confirm is that once go for the retina screen, I can never use back the iPad 2 even the device still able to be used. 

iPhone 5 random shutdown

The used iPhone 5 lately have issue, it will randomly shutdown even it is playing song. I have tested the battery and the condition is still okay. Very weird. I only purchase this a few months ago. Headache.

iPad 2 with iOS 6

It seem like Apple have remove the signed iOS 6 for iPad 2 and iPhone 4s. That might mean we cannot restore it back to iOS 6 officially. Luckily I managed to restore both device to iOS 6 before the removal. Now I will keep these two in the version for the sake of performance. 

Macbook Air Cooling System

I watched a YouTube clips that showing a guy repairing a Macbook Air. He said the CPU is burned. When he open the laptop, he was surprise that the CPU is using a heatsink instead of fan for cooling. The fan is not directed to the CPU. Maybe this is a fanless CPU but irony is many CPU has burned out.

Battery Cycle Count

Each battery has its own cycle count, once the cycle count reached, say goodbye to the battery, either you change it or you can throw away the devices. Last check, iPhone 5 original battery replacement by authorized service center charging RM300++ but my device is only RM240.

These kind of stuff keep people from keep using older devices for longer period.

Talk about saving environment  by these giant corporate.

iPad 10.2 review by youtuber

Before the iPad 10.2 is availability, I watch a few video bashing the device's spec is disappointing, how Apple is still playing cheap by providing the same A10 chipset used by iPad 2018.

Now the device is out, these reviewer change their thought saying the reason Apple still keep using the chipset is because the A10 chipset is still powerful to run the latest iPadOS.

Did they not know how the chipset performance before the device launched? Isn't they have done benchmark saying the CPU is slow compare to newer devices?

Much of these reviewer if review Apple product, I always keep reserve regarding their opinion. Often they will flip flop which a bunch of non-sense reason.

Garage Band

This is the only app from Apple that I am interested to install. It allow me to play some music instrument. Lucky iOS 9 and 10 can still install the apps, iOS 6 unable to install anymore.

I just play it casually. Maybe once an month. Due to the file size that reach around 1GB. It is lucky that my devices storage is larger to be able to spare the space to install, unlike the iPad 2 that has limited space.

Gadget battery

One of the most important aspect of gadget is the battery. The battery determine the usability of the gadget. For now Microsoft is the worst on this part.

iPad still have a solid usage for single charge, now still monitor the iPhone 5 battery, at a single charge, it can play around 20 hours of Podcast but the claim is music playback for up to 40 hours. Half of the claim.

20 hours is around 2 and half days of usage during office hours.

Actually not to complaint too much already.

iPhone 5 : Frist Impression

I just got the device. At first glance, the device is not lag as like the 4s with iOS 9. I reset the device first for security purpose. After I setup all basic as I do to any of the iOS devices with wifi turn on, my battery drop 10%. Need to do more testing on the battery life.

Here is what I do to my used iOS devices.
I remove all iCloud synch since this is not my daily drive device.
Disable Find my Phone feature
Disable Location Services
Disable Facetime
Disable iMessage
Disable Background App Refresh

These are the feature that I won't be using.

The Podcast version is 2.6

iPad 3 - Battery

Based on the early usage, iPad 3 loses around 13% after usage of 1.4 hours. So the battery should be able to usage for around 7 hours max for each full charges. This seem a bit better than my Surface Pro 3.

My usage is only limited to single app usage only which is reading comics and using iBooks to read pdf.

More will be monitor to see the battery performance.

iPad 3 Screen

I tried to read comic and books using the device and I notice the wording is much sharper and easy to read than iPad 2. The higher resolution really make the reading experience much better. I should have bought the the device a few years earlier.

Now if the battery can hold up to iPad 2 standard, then I am in no need to purchase the entry level of iPad due to the screen felt like the same par as the current device. Not unless it is the laminated screen in iPad Air which doesn't have air gap or other higher spec that have better screen compare to this one.

iPad 3 in 2019

I just bought an black iPad 3 wifi with 64GB of storage because the LTE doesn't support 850 which is Unifi Mobile band. It has 56.2GB left for starting point. I only installed 2 apps which is Comic Flow and Garage Band for now.

I retired the iPad 2 again after using it for 3 days while waiting for this to arrived. At first glance, the device take a long time to charge the double size battery compare to iPad 2. According to the sheet, its usage will be the same as iPad 2 due to the screen resolution is double the size of iPad 2. It is one of the reason I bought this devices.

It felt that the screen quality is almost the same as iPad 2018 because the size and pixel is still the same. The dpi is the same.

I estimate the device to be used for another years before either the death pixel is too much to be ignored or the battery die out like my Surface Pro 3

It is a 7 years old devices. How much longer I can expect it to last? After this, I will tried to see if iPad Air  can be cheaper by that time.

A10 CPU

Current in market Apple device that still using A10 CPU is iPod Touch 7th Gen, iPad 2018, iPad 10.2 2019 and just retired iPhone 7.

The CPU was introduced in 2016 Sep and Apple still think the CPU is capable to handle the current OS requirement. So either the CPU is really ahead of its time or Apple just cheap out.

In software cycle, the new devices should entitled for a few updates before Apple decided to retired the CPU.

Current already retired CPU is the A8 which where launched at 2014 Sep. In theory, the A10 will have another 2 years of software  update.

iPhone 11 Pro/ Max

Apple finally make it, they have produced the three eye raven for iPhone. The main focus for iPhone is the camera. The event practically now is a camera introduction. The rest of the features is just a bump from previous specs. The claim of the battery is to be tested in real world later. Now we just hear what they say it would be.

iPad 10.2 2019

The entry level iPad had being given an update on the screen size, from 9.7" to 10.2" with a smart connector that allow you to purchase another Apple Smart Keyboard.

Beside that, I guess that's all. The rest is the same with 2018 version. Same CPU same RAM same camera same storage option.

The price different between the early iPad Air 2019 is RM 1K with better CPU and higher RAM and camera, screen quality.

But is the RM1 K justify the better spec?

I am still thinking.

iPhone September 11 Malaysia time

Apple will announce the latest iPhone models in September 10th USA time which mean the next day in Malaysia.

The leaked images show that this version will have Triple camera and the design is beauty lay in the eye of beholder.

A lot of early feedback is design is not so important, the important is the features.

Since when Apple is not about design anymore?

Android Pie One UI for Samsung

Samsung J7 Prime 2 has almost identical spec with J7 Prime 1 yet it entitled to receive Android Pie with One UI. This is a bit bizarre. Maybe the software support has pass 2 years and Samsung decide not to waste any resource for their customer anymore.

With this decision, it create a huge different between them and Apple. Apple user when they purchase their product, they are secure with around 4 years of software support. The update to newer version is faster than any Android devices.

Event Google only provide 3 years software support.

Entry Level iPad 2019

Apple is rumored to launch a new size for the basic iPad soon in September. The new size might be 10.2" which increase 0.5" from the previous. Wonder what will be the trade off to maintain the price tag? Surely CPU couldn't have been A12 as it will hurt the iPad Air 2019 but if they maintain the old CPU A10 then the performance will be not much different with current version.
My guess is they keep the current storage option and only increase the screen size and a small bump on CPU which using A11.

iPadOS

iPadOS is currently under beta mode and it gain a lot of praise from those who review or use it. The latest OS finally enable the iPad do what everyone envision it can do during iPad 2 era.

Better late than never, right?

MacBook

Once Apple launched a super thin laptop that is fanless. It has a single port for charging and others usage. Nobody know what is the usage of the device beside look cool. The CPU is weak due to the fanless. The battery is no where impressive.

My friend at that time ask my opinion on whether to get the MacBook or MacBook Air that is consider a bit outdated but still way way more powerful than the MacBook. I said no matter what I said you will choose MacBook. He asked me why, I replied that because it more cool. He didn't like my answer.

So in end, I saw him purchase the device but he complaint that it is under power and cannot much on the device, he end up still using his old MacBook Pro.