A narrator talks about how he doesn’t mind being on hold because he can check his email, pay some bills and download games from the App Store.

A woman narrator tell us how she used her iPhone to capture video of her child’s first steps and shared them with her family.

It is expected this week that Apple will begin taking orders for their tablet iPad. According to SlashGear, first possible date is 25 February but it has not been confirmed officially by Apple.

Initially, on the market in North America will only be available iPad models with Wi-Fi. Versions of the tablet with 3G are expected in late March.

Price of the device from $499 for a model with 16 GB of memory. The 32 GB version costs $599 and with 64 GB – $699. Adding a module for 3G communications is more expensive with $130.

iPad prices surprised analysts and competitors to Apple. Many tablets expected to cost around 1000 dollars and rely on the market to push through similar but less expensive devices.

Undoubtedly, there will be tablets under $500 but they would hardly be interested in the faithful fans of Cupertino. In principle, Apple’s customers are accustomed to paying “an idea” more costly for the company’s products and will hardly make an exception with the iPad.

Since Apple has now come out with the iPad the big question is – will the Apple iPad have the success that the Apple iPhone has? First let’s compare the two products – both the iPhone and the iPad pretty much have the same applications available such as the internet, email, photos, maps and watching videos. The iPad is much larger than the Apple iPhone and one of the greatest advantages with the iPad is that you can see the websites as a whole page and view pictues in a larger scale as well as looking at google maps in a more broader view.

With the iPad you will not have to do a lot of scrolling unlike using the Apple iPhone. The iPhone has great capabilities but it is a lot smaller than the iPad and that is what makes the iPad more desirable to use because of the larger view you can get from it. The Apple iPhone even though it is smaller and more compact it is easier to carry around with you but that still doesn’t compare to the iPad as far as usability – being able to view content in a larger view.

Even though most people are out for what is convenient for them such as being able to carry around the iPhone in their pocket or in a small carrying case it still doesn’t compare to the larger iPad as far as being able to view web pages and other applications in a more broader area. That being said the usability of the iPad very much outweighs the convenience of the Apple iPhone. Most people are used to using their home computers and will appreciate the iPad in a sense that the iPad is like carrying around a portable computer with all of the up to date applications.

The Apple iPad is going to be a great success and is the next best thing to a personal computer compared to the iPhone. Who knows, the Apple iPad may even in the future replace the use of the notebook computer as far as using it for business purposes and more.

CTVOlympics.ca
This is the official iPhone app for the Vancouver Winter Olympics that gives you complete coverage of all the breaking news and medal updates along with a comprehensive TV schedule.

Download CTVOlympics.ca from iTunes

2010Guide – Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games: The Official Mobile Spectator Guide
This is a useful iPhone app if you are in Vancouver and plan to watch the events live.

Download 2010Guide – Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games: The Official Mobile Spectator Guide from iTunes

SportLogik
This is an iPhone application that will be of great use to those of you who are new to the winter games arena.

Download SportLogik from iTunes

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics
The iPhone app is a great guide to take you through all the venues hosting the Winter Olympics.

Download Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics from iTunes

1. Sweethearts
Write a special message to your loved one on Valentine’s day.

Download Sweethearts from iTunes

2. iLoveHim/iLoveHer
iLoveHim/iLoveHer ensures that your valentine is always just a couple of taps away.

Download iLoveHim/iLoveHer from iTunes

3. ValentineMaker
Create adorable Valentine’s day cards with pictures from your iPhone photo library.

Download ValentineMaker from iTunes

4. iWrite: Love Poems
iWrite features eight different Valentine’s-appropriate styles of poetry.

Download iWrite: Love Poems from iTunes

5. Valentine – Postage
This app has a lot of high quality e-card designs and lets you easily insert your own pictures into its templates.

Download Valentine – Postage from iTunes

6. Creative Romantic Ideas
This app is more than a little cheesy, but it has some genuinely good ideas.

Download Creative Romantic Ideas from iTunes

7. Be Mine Hearts
Shake your iPhone to get a different heart (and message), add your own note at the bottom, then send it in e-mail.

Download Be Mine Hearts from iTunes

8. Send eFlowers
Flowers are a Valentine’s Day classic for a reason, and this app allows you to send virtual flowers to everyone you care about (or even people you don’t) with the touch of a finger.

Download Send eFlowers from iTunes

Microsoft is considering the possibility to create a specialized version of its Office package for the tablet iPad. Such information appeared in various websites which refer to Mike Tedesco, product manager at Microsoft.

The company however has not taken a final decision to place a similar modification of the office suite. If Microsoft ever does begin to develop, it will build upon the Office suite for Mac, writes t3.com.

iPad-version of MS Office will need to be tailored to the specifics of the iPhone OS platform and the technical characteristics of the iPad.

Tablet shown recently by Steve Jobs provides 9.7-inch touch screen, 1-GHz processor Apple A4, 64 gigabytes of memory modules wireless Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

iPad is managed by the operating system iPhone OS 3.2 which does not support multitasking.

Norwegian company Opera is ready with a new 5 Opera Mini browser for iPhone. They will show ot on Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.

The message is bold: Opera claims that Opera Mini is faster than Apple Safari. The developers are positive that this is due to the use of compression which shrinks a web page with up to 90% before it sent to your mobile device.

Opera Mini 5 will have other nice features such as tabbed browsing, automatic management of passwords and others. Synchronization between the desktop browser and mobile browser is also provided.

Opera already had some success in placing its Java-based cell phones such as BlackBerry or on the Android smartphones. Debut of the new Opera Mini will be next week before a narrower audience.

About a year ago Adobe and Apple announced they would work together to provide users of Flash to iPhone and iPod touch. As you may guess the project is clearly not advanced much since we have not heard anything about the subject. Instead, relations between the two companies are very strained and Steve Jobs even called Adobe “lazy”. We do not know what in fact they do work in Adobe but it appears that in December the company’s servers have been targets of 7 million queries for iPod touch and iPhone to download the software. If this is not a figure that can motivate Adobe to work faster and Apple reconsider their position to allow the standard in mobile phones we really do not understand what could be motivating.

iResQ is a site for iPhone support. Because of the work performed by the device, the company received the parts which are allegedly from the 4th generation iPhone. Of course, things change and the design can also be changed out before the final product. But if this were indeed parts of the next generation Apple iPhone then design changes are minimal.

As with the first model, LCD display is affixed to the touch panel, while 3G and 3GS two are separated. This is important for technicians repairing equipment that will raise the price to repair the screen because both parts will be replaced simultaneously. The front panel of 4G is about 6 mm longer than that of previous models. Over the speaker has a mirror surface which is perhaps the proximity sensor. If so it is located in a different place compared to previous models of iPhone.

If these parts are actually 4th generation iPhone then Apple clearly adhere to the old tested formula rather than to make radical change. Yet nothing is known with certainty and may have new hardware changes, however, specifies the expected major changes to the software.