5.6-Inch and 7-Inch OLED iPad Models Coming in Q4 2010?

[keiths29]

Not likely

Not likely. Apple has proven track record of not offering alternatives. One phone (form factor). Remember the long rumored iPhone Nano. One flavor of desktop, only two sizes of iMacs. Heck, Apples gone nuts with three screen sizes for laptops. The iPad is selling to well to confuse the market with three sizes. Lastly, lets drop OLED, not going to happen. Supply is too limited and price point isn't at the Apple level of "lets make a killing on profit margin." Best you can hope for is the same 9.7 with 128gb or a Retina-type display (but don't hold your breath on that one either).

 

[sishaw]

yeah its an app. actually several apps i have can print. i guess iOS4 then doesnt officially print but i dont see that bothering me as it has not prevented me from printing anything from my iPad.

Fair point. It just makes it a more complete OS if it prints.

 

[fletch33]

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Man, this totally SUCKS for early adopters of the iPad. I knew the next generation would be out before the holidays (or shortly after) and have a TON of improvements and features.
-more RAM
-Better screen
-Faster
-Cameras
-Print output

So glad I didn't buy the generation 1 iPad prototype!

i can't believe i am writing this as i was totally pissed about what Apple came out with when i saw the specs for the iPad and refused to even look at one. of course after a few weeks of them being out i had to now own one even if i sold it on Craigs a few weeks later for a small loss i had to see why they would do this to something i had waited for so long.

the day i got it Spirit was released and within a few hours i knew i was not going sell it anymore.

i do not feel like an early adopter now and did not feel that way when i bought the iPhone 1. it is what it is and if you are someone that wants to be using the newest stuff you buy it or you can wait and wait and be assured that when you buy it a new one is sure to follow it. never going to stop happening and you either decide to jump on the train or wait for the next one.

i am doing so much more with the iPad than i had thought it would/could do. of course most of what i really enjoy comes from being Jailbreak and from the Cydia store but that doesnt bother me at all. if Apple keeps making the hardware and Cydia keeps dishing out the good stuff then im happy.

when the next one comes out then i will sell this one for a good penny and and a few to it and get the next but i am not one to wait cause it never ends.

 

[darrenbeige]

My mistake... By desktop computers I meant the pro-line Macs. Mac Pro is all I want. Been waiting for at least 10 months now. Really starting to get to me. If I knew it would have taken this long, I would have bought the current model when Snow Leopard came out.

They had new MacBook Pro's?

Just because the Mac Pro hasn't recieved an update in a while, doesn't mean they have abandoned it.

 

[darrenbeige]

iP4 is great, but just too small to do much work on, iPad is too big to to be portable without a bag.

Waiting till there is an ipad that fits in a suit pocket.

The perfect form factor for portable reading is the paperback

What size do you want to do good work then? Paperback is too small to do work on IMO.

I think the iPad is the right size.

 

[RawBert]

I don't believe this for a second.

Rumors, just rumors.

 

[darrenbeige]

I assume you used an external keyboard, or have you mastered the on screen keyboard? It's one of the key reasons that I haven't jumped on the iPad bandwagon yet. I've tried it in stores and just had a hard time envisioning getting good enough to do any real typing. Would love to hear how that's going for people now that they've had time to get used to it.

I thought that at first, and you don't immediately gel to the keyboard, but after about a month I was typing at a comfortable 40 words per minute in landscape.

The portrait keyboard is fine for a couple of sentences but that's it. Apple could really do with putting a number row and Swype on that portrait keyboard.

 

[mikechan1234]

The ipad is a little big and a little heavy so I think its a good idea

little heavy? you must be weak...

 

[ilmolto]

They had new MacBook Pro's?

Just because the Mac Pro hasn't recieved an update in a while, doesn't mean they have abandoned it.

I sure hope you're right. I'm just pissed because it's Tuesday morning and once again there's no new Mac Pros.

 

[ctdonath]

Waiting till there is an ipad that fits in a suit pocket.

It's called an "iPhone", and as a bonus includes a cell phone (the WiFi-only version is called an "iPod Touch"). Pretty nifty, maybe you should research it.

Sarcasm aside, I understand the sentiment. Reality is there's just a clash between wanting something small enough to fit in a pocket and, at the same time, big enough to handle page-sized content. Intermediary device sizes don't solve the problem since they don't do either well enough (too big for pockets, too small for larger uses).

Maybe Apple's best bet is to create a symbiotic pairing between the iPhone and iPad: seamless auto-syncing and auto-sharing of hardware & content so each device "just works" having your content & apps available on each, and sharing hardware (say: touch a phone number in an email on the iPad, and the iPhone makes the call; camera on iPhone makes iPad a viewfinder/editor; 3G on iPhone usable by WiFi-only iPad, or 3G on iPad enables surfing & VoIP via paired iPod Touch). That way you get the best of both worlds: content you want on the device size you prefer.

 

[darrenbeige]

I sure hope you're right. I'm just pissed because it's Tuesday morning and once again there's no new Mac Pros.

Jobs said Final Cut Pro was still in production. Because of this, I'm pretty sure the Mac Pro isn't being abandoned either.

 

[ctdonath]

I thought that at first, and you don't immediately gel to the keyboard, but after about a month I was typing at a comfortable 40 words per minute in landscape.

I'll second that. I took to the virtual keyboard pretty fast, forgiving the typos from finger drift (thanks to the auto-correct being so forgiving in return). The limiting factor on typing isn't so much the keyboard as the cramped space most websites give you to type in.

For serious hardcore typing I'd rather have a physical keyboard, but absent that the virtual one is more manageable than some suspect.

Your mileage may vary; it's really up to user preference (but don't knock it until you've given it a fair chance).

 

[darrenbeige]

little heavy? you must be weak...

It is heavier than I would have liked. That's one of the reasons I'll be eBaying iPad and then moving to 2.0 because it'll be lighter.

 

[BJB Productions]

Sounds like the "iPhone Nano"

 

[iMacThere4Iam]

Hey, DigiTimes, is that a new 5.6" iPad in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us?

 

[talkingfuture]

Here's a wild idea. I think these screens are for other products and not small iPads. How about the 5.6 is a touchscreen mini display to act as an oversized laptop trackpad for some kind of iOS Mac integration. Perhaps the 7" will be for the desktop equivalent.

 

[Marx55]

A pocketable 5.6-inch iPad would be great, but even better is a pocketable 5.6-inch Mac. Not for heavy work on it, but for Keynote and PowerPoint presentations.

 

[darrenbeige]

It's called an "iPhone", and as a bonus includes a cell phone (the WiFi-only version is called an "iPod Touch"). Pretty nifty, maybe you should research it.

Sarcasm aside, I understand the sentiment. Reality is there's just a clash between wanting something small enough to fit in a pocket and, at the same time, big enough to handle page-sized content. Intermediary device sizes don't solve the problem since they don't do either well enough (too big for pockets, too small for larger uses).

Maybe Apple's best bet is to create a symbiotic pairing between the iPhone and iPad: seamless auto-syncing and auto-sharing of hardware & content so each device "just works" having your content & apps available on each, and sharing hardware (say: touch a phone number in an email on the iPad, and the iPhone makes the call; camera on iPhone makes iPad a viewfinder/editor; 3G on iPhone usable by WiFi-only iPad, or 3G on iPad enables surfing & VoIP via paired iPod Touch). That way you get the best of both worlds: content you want on the device size you prefer.

Seamless syncing will come. I don't know when but it just will.

The two I've bolded in your quote are big wants though.

 

[ilmolto]

Jobs said Final Cut Pro was still in production. Because of this, I'm pretty sure the Mac Pro isn't being abandoned either.

Awesome. Also pretty sure iLife is due for an update too. Hopefully that will come out around the same time. Thanks for the info

 

[ctdonath]

little heavy? you must be weak...

Have you guys making these snide "you're weak" remarks actually held a 1.5 pound content device, unsupported, for prolonged periods? 1.5 pounds is fine if you can shift it around a lot, but holding it still without support while reading it for extended times, and esp. when holding it in one hand while hunt-and-peck typing on it for a while, it does get to you pretty fast.

 

[Rocketman]

What would be practical is an iPad resolution device with a higher density screen in a smaller form factor so there is an iPad nano (iPhone4), iPad maxi (iPad), and iPad midi (the new form factor.).

If this midsized device is a full fledged iPhone 4 in a mid sized form factor it is the exact device I have been hoping for and my company will buy several. Larger visual size than an iPhone is what we are looking for and the iPad is more closely a "luggable".

Rocketman

 

[cvaldes]

I can believe a smaller iPad (heck, I would prefer a 7" iPad to the current one), but it's not going to have an OLED display (in the near future).

Let's face it, the supply chain couldn't provide enough parts for what would probably be a production run of 2-3 million per month.

Plus, with Apple moving to IPS displays, it seems unlikely that they would create another iDevice with significantly different display properties within the same product family. While people in tech forums might understand, it would simply cause confusion with Joe Consumer (Apple's target audience and main customers).

 

[darrenbeige]

A pocketable 5.6-inch iPad would be great, but even better is a pocketable 5.6-inch Mac. Not for heavy work on it, but for Keynote and PowerPoint presentations.

I'm hoping the iWork apps will get there some day. Even if editing was limited to a subset of features, if they could just view at 100% replication to a desktop Mac I'd be over the moon.

 

[neutrino23]

I'm skeptical of the configuration but I have been expecting an upgraded iPad in the fall. The competition won't give Apple a two year pass like they did with the iPhone. The competition won't be sophisticated but they will be feature rich. The easiest and quickest thing to do is add features: cameras, more resolution, lighter weight, memory slots and so on. These don't have to work well, they just need check marks for a comparison table to make them look good against the iPad. To fend this off I expect Apple will come out with iPad II which will have a richer feature set though it won't go overboard.

 

[darrenbeige]

What would be practical is an iPad resolution device with a higher density screen in a smaller form factor so there is an iPad nano (iPhone4), iPad maxi (iPad), and iPad midi (the new form factor.).

If this midsized device is a full fledged iPhone 4 in a mid sized form factor it is the exact device I have been hoping for and my company will buy several. Larger visual size than an iPhone is what we are looking for and the iPad is more closely a "luggable".

Rocketman

Would you want apps to be different on the iPad midi to the iPad nano (the iPhone)?