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'Large Screen iPod Touch Device' in Fall of 2009?

akbc said:
I fail to see the point of such product.

7-9"... Too small to be any useful and too big to be any portable.

iPhone/iPod Touch is doing their job well.

If it's 11" - 13" thin-ass and useful touch-interface device, it's going to be mine :)

Hey, what the heck, make it on-par with MacBook Air. And it's MINE :D

I don't mind smaller HDD to keep the cost a little lower, and maybe one more USB :)

11.1" screen, touch screen (multi-touch), MB Air - like spec, $1599 :)

YAY!
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I would buy that in a heartbeat.
 
regarding article: sweet device. i have been thinking if only Apple could make the iTouch's screen larger. this would be the perfect 'subnotebook'.

theyll just need to figure out disk mode and copynpaste, but this is a viable rumour and i really hope it comes true. wallet out. :)
 
So, maybe it has a foldable screen, like this.
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Highly doubt that--it has to have a capacitive digitizer and the high-impact glass crystal...makes it slightly less easy to fold.

What would happen to the current Apps on the App Store and the iPhone OS itself if Apple just decided to up the resolution of a device or the phone itself? I had a Windows CE PDA with a 640*480 LCD instead of the conventional 320*240 once; after hacking the OS to turn off scaling, I noticed that some programs worked pretty well and had really small UI elements, but other programs looked rather retarded, either pixel-doubled or only displaying on 1/4 of the screen. Wouldn't Apple be pretty much SOL with respect to things like prior compatibility if they just threw in a say, 800*480 display?
 
so now another rumor about a tablet/netbook/bigger ipod device.....

i dunno what to think... surely apple has tossed ideas around for these things,
but are these just a bunch of sites feeding off each other or are they actually onto something?

a tablet could also be used as a home wireless keyboard/remote for all your itunes home theater gadgets....new server included... hmmmm
 
Toe said:
There's a photo and/or vid out there somewhere of some execs from Apple and IBM(?) playing with an over-sized "iPhone-like-device". Can't remember where I saw it and can't find it, but... I'm almost positive that was real and not some sort of dream. :) I think it was around the time the iPhone was released.
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you mean this?? took 2 seconds of googling apple tablet images.


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Well atleast my thumbs wouldnt block 1/4 of the screen when I'm playing BiA, that would be a nice school/note taking device and some web browsing and movies but that would be it.

ChrisN
 
The rumored iPhone nano has the same resolution on a screen 2/3 (or so) of the size.

The possible iPhone Apple Tablet Not Nano (ATNN) could have the same dense resolution screen with 3-4x the pixels and only be about 1/3 to 1/2 again as large as the diminuitive iPhone 1G or 3G.

The future is bright.

Rocketman

cites:
http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1024
http://jkontherun.com/2008/12/05/first-qualcomm/
http://www.lonnypaul.com/lonny.paul/2004/12/06/sony-releases-new-vaio-u70p-wi-fi-micro-tablet-pc/
 
a) If they add the ability to add a mouse/keyboard via bluetooth etc, (or the keyboard is more workable than my iPod touch and
b) Citrix gets off their ass and releases the Citrix ICA client

Then, I will do my entire job on this.

c) a nice perk would be the ability to dock into a monitor as well.........like that patent we saw a long time ago where a tablet docks into an iMac like monitor.
 
hmm... at first i think, i can fit my iphone into my pocket, and if i need anything more i just take my MBP.

but then it hit me, i often take my laptop to show clients their website that i am building, but all too often they want to put their fingers or pen ends on my screen - most annoying thing ever - so if i had a touch screen this size i could probably effectively show them their site without them grubbing up my laptop.

maybe useful after all.
 
Bah... give me a MacBook that size that can run all Mac OS X software and I'd care.
 
akm3 said:
a) If they add the ability to add a mouse/keyboard via bluetooth etc, (or the keyboard is more workable than my iPod touch and
b) Citrix gets off their ass and releases the Citrix ICA client

Then, I will do my entire job on this.

c) a nice perk would be the ability to dock into a monitor as well.........like that patent we saw a long time ago where a tablet docks into an iMac like monitor.
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I hear you perfectly. Citrix, PCAnywhere, and a few specialized apps are the only reason I keep parallels around to run my windows virtual machines. the rest is all either web based, native on the mac, or mac compatible. thus why I said this thing needs full mac os x, so that I can run normal apps as if I was on a macbook. and since the new Cisco firewall we implemented at work supports macs, nor more being tied to having a PC for a backup work machine. My macbook is my backup work machine and works better than my work machine (Dell).

would be nice to have a hybrid device. One that can run full OS X, but can also run the app store apps. Just think of the possibilities. man I wish I could run app store apps on my macbook. So many cheap neat little add ons that would just make my work eaiser and life more enjoyable. No big bloated apps just for tracking little stuff, yet full suites for my more extensive works.

Image what I could do with a device that ran all the apps I have now on my macbook - plus apps in the app store. How sweet life would be.....
 
I would like to see a clamshell type touch in addition to the regular one.

Maybe a little thicker, but not much. Double the screen size. Automatic screen protection. Sweet.

The issue of course will be the screen at the seam. Will it be glass with a thin line, or some sort of flexible screen?
 
firewood said:
But an iPod Touch with a double or quadruple size display? That would be great. The screen would be bigger than most iPhone apps need, not smaller. There will be so many apps in the iPhone app store that most people won't miss their usual laptop/desktop apps, which are unsuitable for touch control and require too big a display to easily use. The device could weigh less than a paperback book. Not pocketable, but at least one hand carryable and usable without a briefcase.
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Sounds silly to me. A very awkward size for carrying around. If it's too big for my pocket I'd rather have a full laptop.

iPhone apps would zoom up in size for all the baby-boomers with declining eye sight.
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I've had bifocals since my 20s; the iPod touch really isn't a problem. :cool:
 
How exactly is this consistent with a 1.5x iPod Touch rumor?

This thing would be at least ~4x the size of the current iPod Touch.

Simple math.
 
HiRez said:
I guess my question is how do you carry that and why is that better than a small laptop? It's too big for a pocket, you need to carry it laptop-style anyway, but it'll have a smaller screen than a laptop and probably no physical keyboard and less ports, so where's the advantage?
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The advantage here is that it's neither a laptop or a phone. Think about all the things people use to collect information: waitress, store/flight attendants, students, execs at meetings, finding something when you walk into a large store (wifi to your device for where the pickles or overhead fan switches are), etc... Rather than having a dedicated hardware devices for each need, you have, like the iPhone, a blank palette, the interface and functionality free for defining by a programmer, creating any virtual machine/device you want with any input/output feature (keyboard) you want. No more lines to reach a service....the service becomes mobile. We see this already (for example in Apple stores), but they're forced to use dedicated hardware devices. The iPhone is an example of a all-in-one device, but it is a little too small visually, while a full laptop is a little too big. As we move to a cashless society, the need for cumbersome registers becomes obsolete.
 
Ummmm....

If it's compatible with the App Store...

That would mean that a 4.5" or 5.0" display would be 480x320 pixel... EUCK! It would be illegible!

Simply not possible.

As much as I want an iBook, it just ain't happening if it's 5.0" and 480x320px screen.........

Apple would never do that....
 
commander.data said:
So analysts say there will be an iPhone Nano and now an iPod Touch Mega in addition to the regular iPhone/Touch.
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CORRECTION: Analysts have not and never will say anything about an iPhone Nano. The only "evidence" of an iPhone nano is case manufacturers websites with no products. Yet another reason why the iPhone Nano doesn't exist and will not be announced anytime soon, possibly ever.
 
shervieux said:
Other than gaming... If it is thin enough, think of people who could use it in a portfolio. Imagine OS X (inkwell / handwriting recognition), and if it has enough ram and storage; imagine having all your docs in a mini portfolio rather than an entire laptop bag. great for sales people on the go.

Sorry, did not have time for a proper photoshop.

then couple that with the slide in docking patent that led to people producing this mockup (yes I googled this one)

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Sound like a winner to me. If I had that and my livescribe pulse smart pen, who would need regular paper anymore.

Then I would have this and everything I need on the road. No more laptop bag.

just imagine having this tucked into a little journal sized portfolio (thus the need for 1 or 2 USB ports - for the cradle and loading my apps).
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Your close, but no cigar. This is what I have in mind:

macbooktouch1.jpg



To be Docked in:
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For the patent filed by Apple click here.
 
SuperMacMan said:
Ummmm....

If it's compatible with the App Store...

That would mean that a 4.5" or 5.0" display would be 480x320 pixel... EUCK! It would be illegible!

Simply not possible.

As much as I want an iBook, it just ain't happening if it's 5.0" and 480x320px screen.........

Apple would never do that....
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OSX is supposed to be Resolution independant I think with Snow Leopard. Couldn't they scale it up?
 
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