Originally Posted by Lysandar:
“Silly question, perhaps.
My iPad3 is 18 months old.
Will PC World, say, do an exchange package for the new iPad Air?
And would they transfer all my data?”
As Gormond said, you can back everything up using iCloud. You can also use iTunes instead.
No need to pay some numpty to do it.
As for exchanging it... Don't know, but if they did I very much doubt they'd give a good price. Apple itself does "recycling" of devices and does not give a good price.
You can sell iPads via mobile phone "recycling sites", such as Mazuma or Fonebank. I did that with my iPad 2.
Or, if you don't mind the extra risk and the fees, you can try selling via eBay.
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“The iPad uses pixel doubling, so many, including games are really 1024 x 768.”
In the *very* early days, before apps were tailored for the iPad, you would need to hit the "2x" button to make an iPhone app fill the screen of an iPad.
But, before long, you started getting "HD" versions of apps, tailored specifically for the screen size and resolution of the iPad.
And then after that, but still quite some time ago, you started getting "Universal" apps: these are apps that contain an iPhone and iPad version in one package, specifically tailored for the size and resolution of the device you run them on.
Originally Posted by
alanwarwic:
“And the most important thing to many of us, is the web, I'm not quite sure what happens with Retina.
This is what Safari wants you to have
http://www.theguardian.com/technology?view=mobile
and this is Android set to 'desktop mode'
http://www.theguardian.com/technology?view=desktop”
I don't know what you get on an iPad mini, but when viewing "www.theguardian.com/technology" using Safari on a full-size iPad and using Chrome on a full-size iPad, I get the full and proper desktop site and not the mobile site.
Safari on the iPhone does tend to get served mobile versions of sites, because the sites see it is the iPhone version, but Safari for the iPad gets the desktop versions.