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Intel Confirms Atom-based Larger iPhone (Mini-Tablet)?
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I knew it!!!!!!!!! I knew it I knew it I knew it!
MACTOUCH FTW!!!!!
*slobbers*
*faints*
MACTOUCH FTW!!!!!
*slobbers*
*faints*
Good evening all. This is my first post ever and would like to say, I love Apple. Now let's take this trek. I'm picturing a tablet device with great battery power, and the ability to run pro apps. i.e. Adobe Ps, Ai, Dw etc... Aperture, Word, itunes, excel, powerpoint entourage and all that good stuff. Feel me?
i honestly feel like a tablet that mac would put out would fail miserably if it didnt have the power to run the adobe suite
I'm going to be on the edge of my seat during the WWDC live feed!
ARgh!!!! I'm not watchin some idiot from gizmodo type into a live blog while genius paraphrases Jobs keynote very innacurately......again! I want to see the friggin keynote....video and all LIVEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Didn't CNN carry a live video feed on their site from the last macworld?
Your thinking about a different kind of tablet. There are two types of tablets that Apple can come out with. One is a largish tablet which is basically a laptop without the keyboard.......there is your wacom tablet dream.
The other is the large iphone type of device which is meant to be an iphone on steroids.
I have a feeling the device debuting will be the latter. Perhaps down the line they will come out with laptop without the keyboard design.
nice work. I'm betting on "iMac Nano"
nice work. I'm betting on "iMac Nano"
The things you say to stop being called a newbie
OK if this were just a tablet i dunno, but if they make it like this, as a master home media controller/tablet/iPod/home network remote etc.... WOW now I would want that in my home with my Apple TV
i agree with you, i just *hope* they can find a common form factor for the two tablets.
honestly though, what do i really want?
a macbook (pro) where the screen is touch sensitive and flips around to work as a tablet (a la axiom mactablet), but still works as a fully functional normal laptop when open as one
god, i mean steve, please grant this one wish...
OK if this were just a tablet i dunno, but if they make it like this, as a master home media controller/tablet/iPod/home network remote etc.... WOW now I would want that in my home with my Apple TV
damn thats just sweet
I doooooooooooo hope it comes out in June. Just imagine the magnitude of uses dat Mr Tablet can do!! Exciting!!!!!!
I really do wish it will come out. But reports speculate that Mr Tablet's
ETA is in 2010 sob sob. I want it in june in june!
Mr Stevey...if you are reading this (which I know you are not), if Mr Tablet comes out in June, I'll buy Mr Tablet and a New Macbook too!
BY the way, check out the multi touch keyboard....!!!!
I really do wish it will come out. But reports speculate that Mr Tablet's
ETA is in 2010 sob sob. I want it in june in june!
Mr Stevey...if you are reading this (which I know you are not), if Mr Tablet comes out in June, I'll buy Mr Tablet and a New Macbook too!
BY the way, check out the multi touch keyboard....!!!!
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I so want that to be real.
But i thought the tech was still 6-12 months off making something like this real.
Still preparing credit card for post WWDC damage.
It will be a slightly larger and thicker iPhone, and likely be the iPhone Black. Simply a couple of hundred more, with more features than whatever a 16 GB regular (3G) iPhone has (which will be slightly thinner than today's phone).
Speculation
So here's my speculation. Steve Jobs announces that he has "a few things" he'd like to share with us today. First, he'll discuss the success of leopard and some of the milestones as well as the track for the future. Next he'll discuss the iPhone software and highlight the new features in 2.0. Then he'll say that there is "one more thing" and mention the rumors of a 3G iPhone, make a couple jokes, then blast us with the new iPhone, coming out with some sweet new features that amaze us all. Then he'll tell us all about the iPhone nano and iPhone tablet. BTW could the iPhone tablet be the infamous iPhone Black posted on AT&T's website? hmm... Cool name, doesn't take away from it still being an iPhone, it's like having a black macbook, it's faster and better and in this case it's got a bigger screen. The tablet will have a better version of OSX and be able to run things like Pages, Numbers, iPhoto and some other cool productivity apps. The iPhone Nano will be a smaller version of the iPhone with less memory at a cheeper pricepoint. Apple is covering all it's bases with the three iPhones. And expect iPhone Nano to come out in colors.
So here's my speculation. Steve Jobs announces that he has "a few things" he'd like to share with us today. First, he'll discuss the success of leopard and some of the milestones as well as the track for the future. Next he'll discuss the iPhone software and highlight the new features in 2.0. Then he'll say that there is "one more thing" and mention the rumors of a 3G iPhone, make a couple jokes, then blast us with the new iPhone, coming out with some sweet new features that amaze us all. Then he'll tell us all about the iPhone nano and iPhone tablet. BTW could the iPhone tablet be the infamous iPhone Black posted on AT&T's website? hmm... Cool name, doesn't take away from it still being an iPhone, it's like having a black macbook, it's faster and better and in this case it's got a bigger screen. The tablet will have a better version of OSX and be able to run things like Pages, Numbers, iPhoto and some other cool productivity apps. The iPhone Nano will be a smaller version of the iPhone with less memory at a cheeper pricepoint. Apple is covering all it's bases with the three iPhones. And expect iPhone Nano to come out in colors.
Basically. Except for the iPod Nano, the recent improvement in Apple rumors has truly led me to believe there is no more surprises. We knew about the Macbook Air, the fatty iPod Nano, the iPhone, 3G. I mean if we haven't heard any rumors yet about the Nano for some reason I doubt its existence. Jobs you've lost the cloak of mystery.
Some of us find the prospects of having a tablet as pointless, while some of us are excited by it. As for me, i m overly sexily excited! Haha. Being in the healthcare industry, having a tablet would be a boon!
Imagine looking through digital xray films, pictures of angiograms, and just zooming and out into the affected the area during surgery.
Freakishly futuristic!
Imagine looking through digital xray films, pictures of angiograms, and just zooming and out into the affected the area during surgery.
Freakishly futuristic!
That would be awesome. An Apple photo frame would not only work and look great, it would work by magic.
Wow. This would be a great way to sit on the couch and just casually surf during the day. Definitely not intended for pro apps (keep buying those other
products). Integrate with tv and your home wireless network. access files on enabled macs and edit with touch to your hearts content. This would be an AMAZING product that would be worth a huge announcement.Fills a niche
I think, much like the Air, that this thing will simply fill a niche. It doesn't have the mass market appeal of a MacBook, iMac, or iPhone.
This is OK... nothing wrong with filling a niche. However, I think there are still some huge mass market areas that have yet to be fulfilled by Apple. The whole home entertainment space is just waiting to be filled (and the Apple TV doesn't do it.) Look at your A/V rack right now. It is probably a few components piled on top of one another and interconnected with varying levels of interoperability. This isn't that much different from the A/V rack you probably had back in the 70's. Sure, you trade a turntable for a DVD player and improve the electronics... but the concept is old and outdated.
These stupid uber-remotes are only a band-aid for an age old problem. To me, it is like writing a screen-scraping app because someone is unwilling to rewrite an old mainframe CICS application.
I think, much like the Air, that this thing will simply fill a niche. It doesn't have the mass market appeal of a MacBook, iMac, or iPhone.
This is OK... nothing wrong with filling a niche. However, I think there are still some huge mass market areas that have yet to be fulfilled by Apple. The whole home entertainment space is just waiting to be filled (and the Apple TV doesn't do it.) Look at your A/V rack right now. It is probably a few components piled on top of one another and interconnected with varying levels of interoperability. This isn't that much different from the A/V rack you probably had back in the 70's. Sure, you trade a turntable for a DVD player and improve the electronics... but the concept is old and outdated.
These stupid uber-remotes are only a band-aid for an age old problem. To me, it is like writing a screen-scraping app because someone is unwilling to rewrite an old mainframe CICS application.
Why?
Why? I would want a maximum of 3 devices, ideally 2. (4 IF you include the shuffle I take to the gym). First of all, NOONE wants to have multiple phones, and I think that one of the first iPhone commercials with the "buff" guy clearly said, "hey we are trying to consolidate devices here." SO you have a phone and a laptop. MAYBE some sort of desktop if you need it.
Why have MORE options? Sometimes MORE is less.
Plus I feel like the 3.5-4.5"x5-7" size is just extremely awkward. What OTHER device is that size? A digital picture frame? High-tech TV remotes? Society (I believe) has settled on a large size (~ a piece of paper) and a small size (~a deck of cards).
(And yes, I DO want to see an Apple tablet, but I would like to see something...like, basically digital paper, with some scaled down OS for note-taking and maybe multimedia, but it would need a stylus)
Why? I would want a maximum of 3 devices, ideally 2. (4 IF you include the shuffle I take to the gym). First of all, NOONE wants to have multiple phones, and I think that one of the first iPhone commercials with the "buff" guy clearly said, "hey we are trying to consolidate devices here." SO you have a phone and a laptop. MAYBE some sort of desktop if you need it.
Why have MORE options? Sometimes MORE is less.
Plus I feel like the 3.5-4.5"x5-7" size is just extremely awkward. What OTHER device is that size? A digital picture frame? High-tech TV remotes? Society (I believe) has settled on a large size (~ a piece of paper) and a small size (~a deck of cards).
(And yes, I DO want to see an Apple tablet, but I would like to see something...like, basically digital paper, with some scaled down OS for note-taking and maybe multimedia, but it would need a stylus)
Call me crazy, but that Newton shell would make an interesting retro iPhone case.
That iPod Home pic is pretty awesome. I would take one for sure. Any odds Apple would still keep the single button aspect on a mini-computer?
I would think it would at least have a few option buttons that take you to something wherever you are on iPod Home.
One to Settings, one to Internet, one to Mail, etc. Even if not that, the one button on such a device looks a bit strange.
I really can't see Intel being privy to this much information. And if they are, that german exec has had it.
They would know that Apple is intending to use the Atom, but I see no reason for Apple to tell Intel what they are doing with it.
They would know that Apple is intending to use the Atom, but I see no reason for Apple to tell Intel what they are doing with it.
More likely to be a derivative of this, shown at CES this year...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/hands-on-with-intels-silverthorne-based-mid-prototype/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/hands-on-with-intels-silverthorne-based-mid-prototype/
I remember this concept ...
... and an Engadget article.
Time ago AppleInsider wrote this.
And Gizmodo too.
If there will be a mini-tablet, i think there will be a new Aplle Cinema concept too.
All of this in January 2009, I suppose.
... and an Engadget article.
Time ago AppleInsider wrote this.
And Gizmodo too.
If there will be a mini-tablet, i think there will be a new Aplle Cinema concept too.
All of this in January 2009, I suppose.
Why not have a Bluetooth headset can be kept in the body of the iPhone Pro when not in use (like a stylus) &/or the same hands free earphones & mic as per the iPhone.
This would be great for video conferencing!!
I remember this concept ...
... and an Engadget article.
Time ago AppleInsider wrote this.
And Gizmodo too.
If there will be a mini-tablet, i think there will be a new Aplle Cinema concept too.
All of this in January 2009, I suppose.
Reminds me of the duo dock but with a built in screen!!
Below with screen added;
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo
Now the above with as an iMac with a dock for tablet & syncing between HD's so you can work on the tablet or if you don't have the tablet from the err... "dock" would be SWEET!!