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The AAPL Sanity Board have crunched some numbers, and come up with what they think is a fairly accurate breakdown of the day 1 pre-orders for the iPad. They’re saying around 120,000 iPads were sold. They got this by taking all of Apple’s orders for Friday (124,596) and subtracting the average number of online orders for other products (16,500) and multiplying the result by the number of iPads bought on average (1.11). From their numbers, two-thirds of people got Wi-Fi only, and the different storage sizes were an approximately even split.  Read more...

At Google’s panel today at SXSW in Austin, a Gmail team member named Jonathan Perlow asked the crowd to raise their hands if they think Gmail is too slow. We love Gmail, but certainly we can sympathize with the fair percentage of those audience members who raised their hands—the problem is pretty much limited to those, like us, who are power users with hundreds of thousands of messages (most of which are junk, we’re not bragging, but still). Perlow had a response, confidently saying “We are fixing it.” He didn’t elaborate, but Google’s always improving Gmail—hopefully this means we’ll be seeing some improvements for power users soon. [TechCrunch] More »  Read more...

Not much here in the way of verifiable detail but we’re hearing that a CDMAified Nexus One is en route to Verizon (or Google’s warehouses, anyway) from HTC’s factories. The Economic Daily News (EDN) adds that Verizon will begin to “market” Google’s superphone this month or in April at the earliest which lends some credibility to that March 23rd date tossed about previously. As for the Vodafone branded handset; EDN says HTC will ship it “soon” — something we’ve been hearing since January.

Nexus One shipments headed to Verizon, Vodafone soon? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

In Brad Stone and Miguel Helft’s NYT piece on Apple and Google, they say Apple’s feud with Google can be reduced to one key point of tension: The iPhone versus Android:  Read more...

The Dell Laser 1600n printer is a multifunctional device that can scan, copy, fax, and print. These four features are combined into one machine, which costs around $600. This laser printer is a perfect choice for people who are concerned with space, with the Dell 1600n cartridges removing any worries as to print quality.  Read more...