Sometimes, i just wish to have a laptop without keyboard, just the screen to read some soft copy magazines, notes, pdf esp. or just browse some bookmarked websites. or even watch a short series. for all that. i do not need a bulky full size keyboard. it'll be nice to have a osx max tablet out on the go. i can feel the world is changing soon. XD
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Apple Snapping Up 7-Inch Touchscreens Ahead of January Tablet Launch?
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i love this statement, so what the hell does "little more than speculation based on a rumor" mean?
exactly, a little more than absolutely nothing.
and yes, i will be buying this apple tablet whenever it makes its appearance - regardless of screen size - as i definitely have a need for ultra-portable computing.
How long are you going to emulate a coach potatoe?
Seriously you read your material and then throw the device on a charger. It is not a big deal. Notably if the unit has the imagined ARM processor implementation it won't use much power anyways.
Think about it a main PC board that isn't much larger than what is in Touch leave a lot of room for a battery. The battery will be driving the most advanced low power tech available, you should be able to easily realize the same on time as the Touch, especially if the RF radios are off.
The other way to look at this is do you want to read your favorite magazines with a monochrome display. Like it or not color is very important to some publications. Finally a color screen provides for enhacements to publications that can't be had any other way.
Dave
Seriously you read your material and then throw the device on a charger. It is not a big deal. Notably if the unit has the imagined ARM processor implementation it won't use much power anyways.
Think about it a main PC board that isn't much larger than what is in Touch leave a lot of room for a battery. The battery will be driving the most advanced low power tech available, you should be able to easily realize the same on time as the Touch, especially if the RF radios are off.
The other way to look at this is do you want to read your favorite magazines with a monochrome display. Like it or not color is very important to some publications. Finally a color screen provides for enhacements to publications that can't be had any other way.
Dave
Steve, may we please have a double battery BTO option? External batteries add a lot of unnecessary thickness and width.
Thank you.
Rocketman
Thank you.
Rocketman
While that might be nice, I'm sure Apple wants this tethered to an AT&T (or other) data plan and the App Store so Apple can rake in the $$$$$ on monthly fees and a cut of developers work.
I know how you can have it both ways. Have downloadable "near traditional Finder" with cloud based but remnant apps locally. External bluetooth keyboard and trackpad you break out when it is time to do some findering. The rest of the time you are mobile and touch.
Lifestyle example. You are roaming, you get home, sit at the desk or plop onto the couch, grab the keyboard, and start doing primary email and grouplist parsing and replying, update the word files and annotate the files from work. Set aside the keyboard and go back to touch mode for the few things you do while listening to music, watching TV, phoning people, browsing, whatever.
While you are typing it is in a dock that acts as a viewing stand and recharging. Wherever it can see LTE, 3G, EDGE, Wifi, it grabs it and Apple's server stripes larger downloads over multi-channel to reduce time to completion and save battery. When docked, it synchs all store-forward and flagged content.
This just cracked. me. up.
I'm not seeing any man i know carrying a man purse - heck, i'm a girl and don't even carry one
And how would a BTO "double-battery" not add thickness/width? If Apple could compress even more battery into the same shell I'm betting they would.
It would add (minimal) thickness like an iPod Classic with higher capacity HD. But it would add less thickness than an external battery pack with all the added enclosure layers volume and mass. More to the point it would be Apple-ly. One might even imagine smart ways to manage two batteries. . . . .
How much would you pay for an iPhone 3GS with an internal double battery option?
Rocketman
im not that excited for a 7 inch one. this has been proven already with the first line of asus eee mini computers that its a weird resolution to work with. its also stated many times all over the place that for the general person 7 inches was to small. hence the 10 inch netbooks.
7 inch I wont bother with but if its 10 I will buy.
7 inch I wont bother with but if its 10 I will buy.
Given news like this, I'd say it's more likely Apple is going to be looking at offering something with much more limited storage, and built-in WiFi and 3G, and have users store their stuff in the cloud. For the things this tablet will be designed to do, there's not a lot of need for local storage...
It will run iPhone OS +. But with a set of extra apps that are made for this specific device. If people already know and are familiar with the iPhone OS, why make a completely different one?
It's a mass market device. It will run the iPhone OS. If it ran OS X it would be a Mac and sales would suffer.
As for a 7" size, I think it's the right size. Anything bigger and I might as well use a netbook.
As for those of you who think ity's too small, it only seems that way becasue you're not really 7".
As for a 7" size, I think it's the right size. Anything bigger and I might as well use a netbook.
As for those of you who think ity's too small, it only seems that way becasue you're not really 7".
Hoping it's marginally affordable but I doubt it. Anything more than $800 CND, I'm not biting.
Oh, who am I kidding?! I need to sell more blood and plasma.
Oh, who am I kidding?! I need to sell more blood and plasma.
7" is too small, because...
If true, this must be calculated misdirection on Apple's part. 7" is just too small for a tablet to be more useful than an iPhone/iPod touch and thus too small to be differentiated in Apple's product line.
If this thing is going to "save the publishing industry as we know it," as has been ventured, it's simply going to have to be bigger and more versatile than 7" would allow. Newspapers and magazines don't have any compelling future at 7".
If true, this must be calculated misdirection on Apple's part. 7" is just too small for a tablet to be more useful than an iPhone/iPod touch and thus too small to be differentiated in Apple's product line.
If this thing is going to "save the publishing industry as we know it," as has been ventured, it's simply going to have to be bigger and more versatile than 7" would allow. Newspapers and magazines don't have any compelling future at 7".
It’ll be optional or two different models, just like iPhone/iPod Touch and netbooks with WWAN modules. Apple won’t sell a lot of tablets if they restrict it to a contract.
Not to mention people don’t usually read a book more than 8 hours in a day which is what the tablet should last on a single charge, all people have to do is charge it before they go to sleep.
The current state of ebooks and the e-ink screens are going slow because they are very limited by the technology. The current e-books don’t often include the graphics that was published in the physical books, they skip it because many of the original e-ink displays couldn’t display them well. Kindles only display 16 grayscale levels, which is not enough for some of the graphics that shows up in heavy graphic novels, mangas and technical manuals that show screenshots.
So magazines, ebooks with graphics, technical manuals, videos, and so on will be awesome on the tablet. However we do have the issue of showing PDF at full view since they are designed at the letter size (8.5"x11"). So it should be interesting to see how Apple’ll be able to take advantage of better integration with Preview on reflowing, changing font styles or sizes, something Kindle or any other e-ink reader can't do.
Most people are just going to put it in their current bag like most people do with Kindles, books and so on. This isn’t designed to fit in your pockets.
People have no problem reading on their iPhones for many of the text related tasks like email, ebooks and so on. Unlike Kindles, Apple can release software that’ll be tailored to the tablet to produce the best reading experience. Have you seen some of the ebook readers on iPhone? The customizations to fit a person’s need are huge ranging from background/foregound colors, font style, size, and so on. Something that’s not possible with Kindle or any of the einks readers.
We still have no idea if Apple'll take advantage of the PixelQ technology.
Wait til you see it in person before comparing it to some netbook. This will run a custom OS that’ll take advantage of all the real estate and use the multitouch technology.
Apple or somebody else can produce software that’ll be much more interactive and more specifically tailored to the tablet screen. That’s the problem with netbooks, there’s no “App Store” for them. Many of the browsers take up too much space in their menu bars, scroll bars (with touchscreen, this isn’t needed) and so on that can be reclaimed by producing special version of those browsers for the Apple’s tablet.
Let's give Apple the benefit of the doubt.
The problem is the cost; if it is set too high, it is not going to be a mass market device. Apple may be selling tens of millions of iPhone but that’s because of the discount offered by the carriers. Will people put up with more monthly price to include the tablet in the wireless data plan and how much would it take off on the hardware device?
Also, iPhone OS is just a custom slim build of OS X, so it is already running it. The problem is, we rather have full control of our documents on a tablet computer, which means we need a file manager to store our files with.
Apple could go with iDisk solution and offer the iDisk app instead but people rather use other applications to manage their files. Office 2008 on the tablet would be killer for viewing PPT files and so on.
You haven’t seen the Time Magazine’s concept and the NYT’s Trimmer or their AIR app? Trust me, the newspapers and the magazines just need somebody to produce the hardware so that they can do the custom work and make it interactive on it. They can’t do that on eink readers, too slow and the netbooks can just view the PDF instead, so there’s no point. But the tablet will have something that most netbooks don’t have, multitouch capability.
According to the Times, they ran a focus group on their concept tablet, a lot of people were willing to pay 50$ a year to get digital versions of their magazines that offer the interactive features.