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Intel Confirms Atom-based Larger iPhone (Mini-Tablet)?

an 8 pounder with a ten inch screen!

How many of you remember the quote below from one of Jobs' keynotes. Looks like he wasn't joking.

"Hi, I'm Steve, welcome to my weekly podcast, "Super Secret Apple Rumors," featuring the hottest rumors about our favorite company. I have some pretty good sources inside Apple, and this is what I'm hearing; the next iPod will be huge, an 8 pounder with a ten inch screen! ..."
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Mobile movie device would be nice to replace portable dvd player. Decent screen could be attached to a head rest. Don't see the demand being that great although target sells 5-7 different versions as do other retailers. I suppose you would need built in ripping in iTunes for an average consumer who does not know what handbrake is...

But, if I were a sales guy that just needed to be able to read email click through a presentation with an apple remote, touch screen a 3d product rendering and could touch screen everything else for $500.00 or less....
 
TMay said:
Bigger screen, same thickness, multi-touch, reader, more performance, more battery life, more memory, card reader...blah..blah..blah..blah..blah, and omg what about the games!

Nah, who would want one of those...(as he carefully maps his position for a 48 hour siege of Summit Sierra Apple store).
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Word. Let me know if you can save me a spot in line. ;)
 
This tablet is the next logical step for Apple after the Macbook Air. Just remove the keyboard on the air, slim down the bezel, and add multitouch to the screen ala iPhone. This makes so much more sense to me than the MacBook Air. Ill be first in line.
 
askthedust said:
But, if I were a sales guy that just needed to be able to read email click through a presentation with an apple remote, touch screen a 3d product rendering and could touch screen everything else for $500.00 or less....
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Give it a DVI port and Keynote Companion (run-only Keynote) plus the other iPhone apps, and I will never need another laptop.
 
Could this be the iphone HOME by any chance?

All the functions of an iphone, but on your landline?

Makes sense for people who wanna email / surf the net and have an mp3 player in their living room, but dont wanna shell out for a laptop or have room for a desktop!
 
The reason I like this rumor is that it approaches the tablet problem the way that Apple would. There are two reasons that tablet's don't resonate with computers the way they should. First, they're too large and bulky. The correct form factor that correlates to the functions that most consumers would use them for is somewhere in the range of slimmed down Newton.

And second, tablets lack a very important feature that a slightly larger iPhone would possess, mobile connectivity both for voice and data.

Truth is I could really use an OS X tablet like device for both business and personal use that is slightly larger and more powerful than the current the iPhone. I hope Apple finds the right formula to make this succeed.
 
jemo07 said:
Well,

There is a lot of talk about this recently, there was some info coming from WSJ and EETimes regarding higher definition on the Iphone, and a bit larger screen size, making the Iphone a serious game platform.

Apple can pull this off since they can tie it all to iTunes and a user with a contract could possibly rent a game for $1 a day! that could have a tremendous impact in the gaming industry.

Now, about the Atom, it would have to be a custom chip, maybe close to 800Mhz and less than the 6 W ratings that they discussed a while ago.. (it was to go down to the 3~2W range) and Apple would need to make the Iphone bigger to accommodate for a larger removable battery.

It's all speculation, but we will have to see.

JM
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The Silverthorne (Intel Atom) has a maximum Thermal Design Power of 0.6 to 2.5 Watt.

It's a big power draw for a mobile device, which should get solved in the future however.
 
MikeyC said:
Could this be the iphone HOME by any chance?

All the functions of an iphone, but on your landline?

Makes sense for people who wanna email / surf the net and have an mp3 player in their living room, but dont wanna shell out for a laptop or have room for a desktop!
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I want it to be able to control my TV too!! :) that'd be great, sitting there typing away (with the virtual keyboard that's the same size as a regular one) and then hit the channel up button there on my iHome device. Ah, one can only dream! :)
 
That would be amazing - the new newton!!!!!!

bet it doesn't have any phone support - it will just be the PDA though.
I would still get one, i <3 multi-touch
 
You want to know what I think?

Sure you do! Apple is clearly moving toward devices that are adjuncts to desktop computers, communicating via Back To My Mac. No need to schlep a full-blown laptop around when you can use an iPhone or a tablet as a terminal for your iMac, or whatever, when you're away from home (or, for that matter, in the living room). Already works pretty well w/ Remote Buddy. Bet you five bucks that's what the tablet is all about, and that we will see Back To My Mac capabilities in iPhone 2.0. Betcha!
 
Maybe its a tablet that integrates w/ AppleTV and iTunes from your Mac/PC in some way or another

And its small enough to take in your car and mount it somewhere and use the GPS from your iPhone and make bluetooth calls through it as well (possibly)?

Has fairly loud speakers and a decent microphone

Had a iSight camera as well so you can vid chat over iChat.

I would definitely buy one if it had that


Maybe it wouldn't need your iPhone for calls and need a subscription to a Cell Pone carrier (ie AT&T)?

Or what if you were able to share this device w/ the phone number on your iPhone and have a switch on your iPhone to have your calls go through the tablet instead w/o using bluetooth?


Maybe if it was something like this car manufacturers would offer an "in-dash Dock" for this instead of using their own NAV systems?


Should be interesting :cool:
 
imwoblin said:
This tablet is the next logical step for Apple after the Macbook Air. Just remove the keyboard on the air, slim down the bezel, and add multitouch to the screen ala iPhone. This makes so much more sense to me than the MacBook Air. Ill be first in line.
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You have got to be kidding. More sense than an Air? Everyone criticised the Air because it was so minimalist and had traded off so many features and your idea is to take away the keyboard. Well that's an award winning idea isn't it?
 
Form factor

Does everyone remember the concept video for the MS Oragami platform? (Zune swallowed the concept for now, IMO) But watch the video again. It shows both the limitations and the possibilities very well. I'm intrigued.
 
MY OPINION


This is the new iPhone we are going to see. 1.5 times the iPhone? That isn't much bigger, and i don't think Apple would have 2 products that do the same thing, but one is just a tad bigger than the one introduced.


$10 says this is the new iPhone, and this is what's going to be released at WWDC.
 
what about those who dont really use a desktop? and who really just use a laptop? ones that are always on the go?

what i dont get (and it may come with the sdk + 3g, who knows) is why not just make the iphone have the abilities to bridge this gap between the iphone + the laptop???

fine, create a device to bridge between iphone and desktop, but what about the laptop users? if i wasnt constantly moving my computer, which i've done in the past, i would LOVE this device; i'm still tempted at the taste of it. but, what a lot of people need i feel is iphone -> laptop, as well as iphone -> desktop
 
The "Tablet" that is in speculation.

Who actually thinks this is going to be the next model of the iPhone? I sure do.
 
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