This Week in iPad Episode 34

Cold Open
Today on this week in iPad, Andrea demos the new Lego Harry Potter, Jacob shows off iOS 4.2, and a musical Planet of the Apps.

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iPad Game of the week
Lego Harry Potter years 1-4 is our game of the week. Andrea likes the game despite the lack of a joystick or controller, and thinks it's well worth the $4.99.

News

iPad 2 will have a camera
The company that will supply Apple with the camera for iPad 2 has been outed. Largan Precision filed paperwork with the Taiwan Stock Exchange indicating that the company will begin shipping the cameras in the first quarter of 2011. Largan currently makes the cameras for iPhone 4.

Richard Branson launches an iPad only magazine
This week, billionaire Richard Branson launched Project a magazine/app that will be updated each month. The app is free but each "issue" will be available for $2.99 as an in-app purchase.

iPad is amazing
Apple recently released a new iPad commercial to illustrate the features of iOS 4.2. Enjoy.



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Planet of the Apps
Music apps
With the launch of iOS 4.2, we wanted to revisit this category since music apps are much better when they can run in the background.

Album Vista
Andrea's first app this week is Album Vista a unique app that will search your song library and find relevant videos from YouTube. It's interesting because they're not always music performances so there's a discovery aspect that Andrea likes.

Pandora
Jacob's first app is Pandora an app that was featured during the announcement of iOS 4. The reason Jacob decided to feature it this week is the fact that Pandora supports AirPlay.

Songatron
Next, Andrea reviews Songatron an app that is the MadLibs of music.

djay
Next, Jacob looks at djay an app that turns your iPad into a DJ table. It's neat but Jacob doesn't think you can get $20 of value from it. However he is not a professional DJ. If you are a professional DJ, get this app and let us know what you think about it. We'll send you a $25 iTunes gift card for your troubles.

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