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Apple Tablet With 7-Inch Screen to Be Announced in January?

Clix Pix said:
No need to plug in anything -- just use the already-tiny BT wireless keyboard and pair it with your new tablet! Wouldn't that be ideal??
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Sounds very nice.

I always wanted some device for writing that can also display images, play music, connect to the web, but is smaller than a laptop. And you can put it into a larger pocket.

(I see clothes manufacturer put a iTouch or MacTouch breast pocket into jackets).

PS: If the iTouch could also cook a decent meal, now that would be great ;)
 
MickdyMickdyMAC said:
The Kindle is 6" diagonal, but with all that extra trim real estate for the buttons-n-stuff - 8" x 5.3" x 0.36".

Apple would probably lose all the extra trim real estate on any tablet they do, so this 7" could dimension out to something like 6" x 4.75" x .3something". Probably wont be able to put in your pants pocket, but a jacket pocket maybe and for sure a purse (man purse?). And if this tablet is also open for app development to do whatever somebody may dream up it to do, this thing could gobble up the Kindle marketplace in a few years.
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A rimless design would be cool.
 
Pockets???

Scarpad said:
Too big.... But biggest of all it still fits in my Pocket.
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cmaier said:
Someplace in between it gets small enough for large pockets...
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pmz said:
Pocket vs. no pocket. = buy vs. don't buy
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Bye Bye Baby said:
Too big for you pocket...
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Ryn0soR said:
Have you tried holding a 10" diag screen in your hand and tried to guess what it would be like to type on? Where do you carry it? How do you use it while your walking around? A little 10" tablet can be kinda cumbersome. However, A 7" screen can fit in the front pocket of a pair of man-pants (sorry ladies). There are some real benefits to the smaller, more portable 7" -- it can impact your life every minute of every day -- that's what made the iPhone so great. A 10" that needs to be put into a sleeve, and then into "bag" is not as usefull if it's too hard to get to...:confused:
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Nostromo said:
And you can put it into a larger pocket.
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I think everyone has become pocket-obsessed.

(Perhaps due to the iPhone's success at its size/portability? Or perhaps due to the iPod's original tagline of "1,000 songs in your pocket"?)

Does every valuable thing have to fit in one's pocket?? Laptops -- the mainstay of coffeeshops everywhere -- have never fit in a pocket, yet people continue to like and use them outside of the home. Even "ultra-portable" netbooks -- flying off shelves, touted as the hottest items -- don't fit in pockets.

Forget pockets! If you want something that small and portable, um, buy an iPhone, not a tablet.

The tablet needs to be a new/different/higher level of interactive experience than the iPhone, or people. will. not. lust. enough. to. buy. it. (see Cube, Mac)
 
TheSlush said:
I think everyone has become pocket-obsessed.

(Perhaps due to the iPhone's success at its size/portability? Or perhaps due to the iPod's original tagline of "1,000 songs in your pocket"?)

Does every valuable thing have to fit in one's pocket?? Laptops -- the mainstay of coffeeshops everywhere -- have never fit in a pocket, yet people continue to like and use them outside of the home. Even "ultra-portable" netbooks -- flying off shelves, touted as the hottest items -- don't fit in pockets.

Forget pockets! If you want something that small and portable, um, buy an iPhone, not a tablet.

The tablet needs to be a new/different/higher level of interactive experience than the iPhone, or people. will. not. lust. enough. to. buy. it. (see Cube, Mac)
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Yours was the most pocket obsessed post. I liked your pocket gallery ;)

As for me: I want bigger pockets :D
 
From the images that i've seen, doubt they are the real product, it looks pretty nice!

Anybody know how much it will approximately cost?
 
TheSlush said:
I think everyone has become pocket-obsessed.

(Perhaps due to the iPhone's success at its size/portability? Or perhaps due to the iPod's original tagline of "1,000 songs in your pocket"?)

Does every valuable thing have to fit in one's pocket?? Laptops -- the mainstay of coffeeshops everywhere -- have never fit in a pocket, yet people continue to like and use them outside of the home. Even "ultra-portable" netbooks -- flying off shelves, touted as the hottest items -- don't fit in pockets.

Forget pockets! If you want something that small and portable, um, buy an iPhone, not a tablet.

The tablet needs to be a new/different/higher level of interactive experience than the iPhone, or people. will. not. lust. enough. to. buy. it. (see Cube, Mac)
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Sorry... It's all about mobility and usability, so it's all about pockets. As soon as I have to pack it up and put it away, or pull up a table and chair, this thing has missed it's mark.

As you said, laptops have coffee shops -- in fact, they NEED coffee shops to be useful outside of your office/living room. Netbooks are a price-point product, they are not any more mobile or useful than a laptop, they're just cheap.

Pockets are important! Do you remember bag phones in the early 90's... seeing some dude walking around the mall thinking he was SO IMPORTANT that he had to carry a phone around with him... hanging in a bag... ridiculous. 5 years later they (mobile phone companies) fit them in your pocket and everyone started buying them...

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a powerful 10" tablet serving as a laptop replacement, but what I like even more is the thought of a product that offers the portability of my pocket-sized iphone and the functionality of a laptop -- a product that changes how I interact with the world at anytime from anyplace -- and that would come in a 7"-ish screen that fits in my pocket.
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7" would require a purse-like sized thing to carry nicely, which I'm not into since I'm a dude. 10" would work well if it ran osx. I'd buy it if I could run the full FM Pro, bottom line.
 
Did anyone see the leaked spec sheet on Gizmodo ealier today that was then removed? OTTOMH, it had a 2.26 GHz Intel processor, 2GB RAM (expandable to 8GB), 120GB 4200rpm HD, 7.1" multitouch display w/ oleophobic properies, OS X 10.7 Clouded Leopard, etc.
 
Dioscorus said:
Did anyone see the leaked spec sheet on Gizmodo ealier today that was then removed? OTTOMH, it had a 2.26 GHz Intel processor, 2GB RAM (expandable to 8GB), 120GB 4200rpm HD, 7.1" multitouch display w/ oleophobic properies, OS X 10.7 Clouded Leopard, etc.
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LOLz. Not even close. A traditional hard drive? Would doom it from the start. OS X 10.7 Clouded Leopard - that's just too funny
 
rdowns said:
LOLz. Not even close. A traditional hard drive? Would doom it from the start. OS X 10.7 Clouded Leopard - that's just too funny
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Yea, I didn't quite expect that it would have a hard drive. Why do you think it was removed though?
 
Not everyone for sure, but every time I read these types of threads it sounds like some people are simply describing a Hackintosh netbook!:D
 
It just strikes me that 7" would be a little too small and would not be good for OSX but great for multimedia. I hope the 7" is the big iTouch and the 10" is a fully fledged mac running snow leopard with a large on-screen keyboard.

I can only hope. :apple:
 
I have a 7inch LCD at home, modded onto a bamboo wacom tablet and it does seem a bit small but with higher resolution and used vertically, I can see it being just right.
 
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