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Apple Reportedly Planning to Launch Smaller iPad in Early 2011

My source hasn't mentioned anything about this so I'm thinking this isn't planned. I've never received wrong info or had something missing.

All I know is that the next iPad which will be released early next year will have the camera that was pulled from this one due to the software conflict.
 
jamesryanbell said:
Pointless. THere's no room between iPod and iPad.
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I don't think they expect people to have and iPhone/iPod, iPad, and this rumored device. I think this one is simply for people who would like a larger iPod Touch and find the iPad too large for their needs. Maybe they primarily want a color book reader, for example. It's not about "room between" this time, it's about leveraging the mobile OS into enough devices of different formats that everyone of the 6 billion people on Earth will want at least one of them.
 
Sweet, ever since last Saturday when I got the iPad, I have been thinking about needing a device to bridge the gap between iPhone and iPad. Sometimes I need to carry something in between and this would hit that sweet spot. ;)
 
I want to play Risk or Agricola on that iBoard, right now! :D

I think many iPad owners will be excited about a 7" or a 13" iPad.
I want a 15" iPad. lol.

My best long-shot hope is an iMac Touch with an iHinge and clever cable placement that lets you lay the screen at 45 degrees or so and also completely flat. I wouldn't expect that until 2011 at the earliest, however, to possibly coincide with the next major Mac OS X release.

The iPhone is probably going to end up being called the trojan horse that began bringing both customers and developers into the multitouch paradigm. The iPad is just bringing them a little closer to the desktop. Mouse and keyboard won't go away for a long time, but most consumer use of computers won't need it.

Will be interesting to see what iPhone OS 4 brings today. Maybe it will shed a little light on the smaller iPad possibility or the convergence with desktop computers. Probably a bit early for that.

Maybe that vision is a little too sweeping, but I enjoy it, nonetheless. :)
 
Oh, and to those saying smaller iPad = iPod Touch.

Have you held up an iPod Touch to an iPad? It looks like a tic-tac. Suggesting that there is no room for a size in-between is bizarre.

Having both does make the iPod Touch feel cute, though. Sort of like a super deformed version of the iPad. It is funny how my perception of the iPod Touch has turned into a smaller less functional iPad pretty much over a couple of days.
 
I hope the new iPad Nano fits in your pocket.

That'd be SWEET! Imagine, e-mail, games, multi-touch, media all on the go. I'm really excited about this device and will probably get one when it comes out.

But then what would I do with my iPhone?
 
larger iPad

I personally look forward to an 8.5x11 or (even better) 9x12 iPad to use for PDF sheet music. A musician's dream... Apple, please, please! :)
 
Smaller??? Why not bigger? I'd buy a 14" or 15" iPad. I know; the cost of such a screen is way beyond reasonable right now. I'm quite pleased with my iPad (and am composing this on it right now) but when that larger touchscreen comes along and Apple has voice recognition built into iPhone OS 5 (or 6?), that will be my Knowledge Navigator. (That dates me, eh?)
 
Actually iBoard sounds like a great idea. If they keep the price tag under 900-1000 bucks then every school would get them. Imagine, chalk-free schools means healthier children. Surfing the web in class. It should be a big one though. Height should be like 1m and width should be at least 3 meters.

And there are a lot of schools, means a lot of sales, if kept in the right price.
 
If this happens we´ll see a lot of posts explaining why the Ipad nano mini or whatsoever will be the Apple product what everybody has to have. Even when the already have a macbook, Ipod touch, Ipad and an Iphone they will say it is important to have this device.
And if you say this a lot of peolple here will not understand cause you have to have all Apple devices :)
This reminds me on something said in this forum. He said that his relationship with his wife has changed positively with his new Ipad cause he was playing with his new toy and let his wife watch her TV soaps. Maybe he should have played with his wife then the relationship would not be the problem :):D
 
Hmm...I might go for a 5" iPod over the 3.5" model. Could make it more usable, and I don't know that the size difference would make it any less portable to me.
 
Has anyone made the "They already have one. It's called an iPod Touch!" joke yet? What? Everyone did? Sorry.
 
Now we are talking!

Hope this rumours are true since I would get such device straight away...

Main reason why I will never buy iPad is exactly its size which is way too close to the size of laptop...

I already have portable device - MBP!

I need MOBILE device and currently own 2nd g. iPod Touch but slightly larger screen would be welcome - in short - exactly what this rumour is all about :)

Bring it on!
 
Getting the price down is great for the platform (and for the people who can then afford it), as long as it allows iPad-style functionality that the iPod Touch cannot. Still, this sounds a little April Foolsy to me! Especially if the next iPhone—and thus the next Touch—get higher-res displays anyway.

Sounds fishy. But I realize that for doing iPad-style work and browsing, physical inches matter more than pixels. Maybe, if the iPad market is huge enough, there’s room for a middle option.

More useful, I think, is the machine I’m certain is coming one day: a hard-core production iPad for professionals: non-portable, no tilt, massive widescreen display, meant for desktop use. Lying flat for comfort, (or a slight tilt), not propped up. Apps for that could truly replace Photoshop and the like. Some other year...
 
Personally, an iPad with a 5-7" screen is exactly what I wanted in the first place. I will order three of them. :)
 
If they made a small ipad with a camera, 3G, and the same $30/mo data plan, I'd replace my iPhone with it. I never use the phone anyway.
 
This is good. Choice. Users can buy what fits their needs.

It would be great to have everything from wrist watch up to 50" displays. The big units would have space in them for many processors, hard drives, DVD and BluRay optical drives, Flash memory cards, etc. This would act as the business or family main system with multi-users. Using something like Wormhole or other VPN client the processing power of the server could be used from anywhere in the world (by authorized users of course). iPads, iWrists, iPods, etc would be windows into our data and our data would automatically synchronize between the main machine and our portable machines providing data redundancy and backup. Wonderful!
 
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