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Intel Confirms Atom-based Larger iPhone (Mini-Tablet)?
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This:
With this (the nano, duh) as a 3G tether (via BlueTooth) when WiFi is not available:
With this (the nano, duh) as a 3G tether (via BlueTooth) when WiFi is not available:
This tablet rumor makes me think of what I wrote about last December. Not blowing my own horn but reading through my article again, it kind of is turning out the way I had thought.
http://octumo.com/blog/2007/12/steves-vision-for-the-iphone/
I know, terribly self-congratulatory, but I even surprised myself!
http://octumo.com/blog/2007/12/steves-vision-for-the-iphone/
I know, terribly self-congratulatory, but I even surprised myself!
Nothing. Hasn't this issue been completely beaten to death?!? They aquired PA SEMI for their technical expertise with embedded systems and NOT for their POWER chips.
For a smaller iPhone model, you can just shrink down the current form factor. It doesn't work --- the on-screen keyboard would be much to small to be able to use comfortably. Also, It wouldn't make any sense to remove the web browser for a smaller model. Internet access will be an intrinsic part of every phone in the future.
Fake
It has bee marked as fake.
http://www.golem.de/0805/59706.html
Just in german.
It says that a intel man has stated on the phone with golem that it was not meant to be this way, because his boss does not know even a thing^^
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It has bee marked as fake.
http://www.golem.de/0805/59706.html
Just in german.
It says that a intel man has stated on the phone with golem that it was not meant to be this way, because his boss does not know even a thing^^
TOD
Jobsian/Ivian Show-offy Smallness Niche: MacBook Air, Mac Mini, MacTablet
or... MacPhoneAirTabletPro, umm, iPlus.
or... Kickin' it old skool, the PowerPhone. Yo.
Nokia already makes one. On it's second generation, I believe. And since you're basically describing it as a new device Apple should make, you pretty much already know how popular they are...which is to say, not very.
It's what happens when you use Intel products.
And when you become a tech bellweather stock, with a market cap over 100 billion and virtually every portfolio manager owning some.
I totally agree with the line of though of having 3 iPhones (which are ultimately much more than a phone as we know) The iPhone as we know it will remain the same size but with different colors and redesigned/perfected case and 3G -- Then the mini with limited functionality but attractive price and the tablet like one, still with phone functionality but closer to a portable mac in essence.
Mac UMPC - Intel Atom?
Is it finally how is it going to look like?
Link
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/413824/
Is it finally how is it going to look like?
Link
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/413824/
Translation by Google.
http://translate.google.ch/translate?u=www.golem.de/0805/59706.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
Funny, nuclear-chip^^
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EDIT: German Link: http://www.zdnet.de/news/hardware/0,39023109,39190870,00.htm
english translated: http://translate.google.ch/translat...09,39190870,00.htm&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
http://translate.google.ch/translate?u=www.golem.de/0805/59706.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
Funny, nuclear-chip^^
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EDIT: German Link: http://www.zdnet.de/news/hardware/0,39023109,39190870,00.htm
english translated: http://translate.google.ch/translat...09,39190870,00.htm&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
Why would you need a GPS in a tablet, unless of course you live in a trailer and move it around a lot?
Nokia makes one with OSX in it?
Does it also sync with itunes and has a touch based safari browser?
Will it sync with .mac as well?
If the answer to any of the above is no then we are talking about completely different devices and the fact that nokia is not doing well has nothing to do with the potential success of this device.
A 300+ppi display, please find me a source for that info because it would be truly amazing!
Anyone think that this purported tablet is Apple's answer to the Kindle?
I could see it paired with an iTunes book library, with downloadable books, wifi and bluetooth. Sure it'll be an ipod as well and be great for watching movies but i think the focus will be better battery life than the iPhone & touch in order to provide a handheld computer that's going to own the Education market.
The extra neat thing is that we'll probably get the book store on the iPhone on macs/PC's. So yes if your stuck on a train you could download a book and start reading it on your iPhone but the tablet (i vote iBook to come back from the dead) will provide the optimal reading platform.
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I could see it paired with an iTunes book library, with downloadable books, wifi and bluetooth. Sure it'll be an ipod as well and be great for watching movies but i think the focus will be better battery life than the iPhone & touch in order to provide a handheld computer that's going to own the Education market.
The extra neat thing is that we'll probably get the book store on the iPhone on macs/PC's. So yes if your stuck on a train you could download a book and start reading it on your iPhone but the tablet (i vote iBook to come back from the dead) will provide the optimal reading platform.
M.
Lets get a touch more specific here. The Atom is a cpu. Analysts are saying that Apple wants to use PA Semi to make other supporting system chips for mobiles and other computers.
So you know where you are when you use Google Maps, or your GPS navigation software while on the road.
Remember, this new tablet is going to be the iPhone Pro with the professional features that business users have been craving for so long.
A message to Apple:
I would like to say "thank you" if you are going to release this product, the tablet iphone thing. I am going to be a 3rd-year med student on rounds sooner than I'd like to believe, and this is exactly the kind of machine I need.
Please be smart and make it compatible with microsoft garbage, because my hospital uses that stuff. Please make it good with PDFs - we use a lot of them. I would give anything to use this device instead of some Windows-mobile-95 piece of junk they'll try to make us use. I am afraid to say that if there are incompatibilities, I will simply have to shrug and buy a windows mobile platform.
Also please get on the ball with fully integrated docx and xlsx support. It is 2008.
I would like to say "thank you" if you are going to release this product, the tablet iphone thing. I am going to be a 3rd-year med student on rounds sooner than I'd like to believe, and this is exactly the kind of machine I need.
Please be smart and make it compatible with microsoft garbage, because my hospital uses that stuff. Please make it good with PDFs - we use a lot of them. I would give anything to use this device instead of some Windows-mobile-95 piece of junk they'll try to make us use. I am afraid to say that if there are incompatibilities, I will simply have to shrug and buy a windows mobile platform.
Also please get on the ball with fully integrated docx and xlsx support. It is 2008.
It's all about the money
It's all about how Apple can make more money. Apple needs to pump out new devices to capture different categories of users. The iPhone captures the affluent "American Psycho" early adopters. The AppleTV captures the average TV consumer. There are still lots of consumer groups left to go after.
Apple likes consolidate their devices - if they can produce one device that casts a wide net of consumer behaviors that can grow their revenue base, then they have a business case. There could be a business case for an iPod Home, which is focussed more on family-based usage, particularly with Tweens+Teens, a massive growth market.
Some examples of what we might use the iPod Home for:
If the price came down far enough, they could be marketed as something each person in a household would have. Maybe a 4-pack for $399?
These could also be designed to work in tandem with your mac, so that multiple people could access their own desktop at once (using screen-sharing), no more waiting your turn.
It's all about how Apple can make more money. Apple needs to pump out new devices to capture different categories of users. The iPhone captures the affluent "American Psycho" early adopters. The AppleTV captures the average TV consumer. There are still lots of consumer groups left to go after.
Apple likes consolidate their devices - if they can produce one device that casts a wide net of consumer behaviors that can grow their revenue base, then they have a business case. There could be a business case for an iPod Home, which is focussed more on family-based usage, particularly with Tweens+Teens, a massive growth market.
Some examples of what we might use the iPod Home for:
- Purchase + Watch TV shows in bed
- Watch movies in the back seat of the car
- Read the New York Times online in the bathroom
- Listen to NPR podcasts in the kitchen while chopping vegetables
- Portable iChat at christmas - pass the device from one person to another
- Take vacation photos and videos
- Lipsync to Britney Spears and upload to YouTube
- Check soccer practice times on the calendar
If the price came down far enough, they could be marketed as something each person in a household would have. Maybe a 4-pack for $399?
These could also be designed to work in tandem with your mac, so that multiple people could access their own desktop at once (using screen-sharing), no more waiting your turn.
I like the look of that. I wouldn't mind a slightly bigger tablet that had phone functionality. I see the phone functionality working as a speaker phone or bluetooth option only, as holding something that large to your face might look stupid (and not be too comfortable).
It should have a connector on it so, when it is charging on the dock, the bluetooth can charge by connecting to the iPhoneTabletTvThing. Lastly, it should little "legs" that unfold so I can put it on a table and watch movies/vid/tv stuff.
