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Last Minute Leaked Photos of Apple Tablet?
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Yeah, check post #400. I already stated it was a typo and even edited the original post.
Would be nice, but I think you're dreaming. Once can always hope, though.
Agree.. There is no reason to have a public event for a processor and harddrive update. All updates that were announced during an event usually included new form factors.
I expect that the MB and MBP lines will remain the same in form factor the coming year and that updates will be silent.
Apple is moving away anyway a bit from smaller public announcements. There was a flurry of minor and medium updates in the last quarter of 2009 (alu remote etc., small chinned iMac.) and these were also silent.
Absolutly, I'm of the same opinion. I only had reported before the point of view from apple. their first goal is to earn money and not given it to the bluray industry. besides this, video on demand is very handy.
They're calling the device itself "Zune HD," but that's just marketing nonsense. The videos themselves are not high definition.
Apple does offer 720p videos from their store, which they accurately call HD (though the bitrates they encode at are somewhat laughable). But just because the device can play those videos doesn't mean it will be able to play them at their native resolution. If it has to scale the video down in order to play back at full screen, it's no longer HD.
All you have to do is look at the image, if you can't see that it's extremely high resolution to start with, and the fact that most 10" panels of any kind all have roughly the same resolution these days (1024, 1280, 1366, 1440 wide, etc, 720, 768, 800, 900 wide, etc) then... well... I can see it's that high already.
The images are real, the question is are they current enough to be the actual tablet... that's the smart question. With so many ideas, concepts, and potential prototypes, it's tough to say.
I'm gonna stick with "Highly likely" myself, and will get confirmation in about 6.1 hours
The device can play back 720p videos natively - no it can't play them on the tiny OLED screen at that resolution, but they are true 1280x720 videos, which is what defines the "HD" meaning, but it's two-fold on the Zune HD because it also has an HD Radio tuner in it. And yes it's a bit laughable since it doesn't mean "high definition" audio; it's still just FM radio on sidebands offering more content.
Hence, the Zune HD.
Hell, I have a Dell Axim with a 640x480 screen but it can actually play 720p native files using TCPMP so, I could call it an Axim HD I suppose.
The Dell Mini 5 looks promising as well, sort of another in-between device, not quite a phone (too large), not quite a full blown laptop either but functional just the same.AT&T has taken its sweet time to add tethering features. Did they delay the service for a reason? Tomorrow is the perfect time to surprise iPhone users with a tethering option to the tablet.
I'm sure it won't happen, but here's hoping....!
This is exactly what I'm thinking will happen today when the curtain is lifted. What better time to rollout iPhone tethering capability than with the tablet unveiling, right?
I think there will be a direct symbiosis between the two devices in fact by way of tethering and OS transparency. Just a hunch that the new OS will run on both platforms but with greater functionality, media consumption, and interactive environment from the tablet. I think Apple will pitch this as though ultimately to have the optimal experience, you'll need to have both devices. Feasibly the tablet could stand on it's own, but the experience would be greater with iPhone as it's little brother - functioning as it does now as a phone, etc., but also as an external drive, etc. for the tablet.
No, it cannot. "Natively" means at a 1:1 resolution of the source content. The Zune HD does not have a 720x1280 screen, so it cannot, by definition, play back any HD content "natively."
Yes, as long as you're watching them on a 1280x720 screen. Just because you start out with a video at high resolution means absolutely nothing if you aren't viewing it on a screen that can resolve that same pixel density.
To put it another way, a video encoded at 1280x720 will look no better on the Zune HD than one encoded at 480×272 (the resolution of the Zune HD screen) because it cannot resolve any greater detail than that. That doesn't mean that acquisition at higher resolutions is not important, because it absolutely is. But copying an HD movie to the Zune "HD" brings nothing to the table because it doesn't have an HD screen. The same will hold true for the Apple Tablet if it has a screen smaller than 1280x720.
I'm surprised no one has even said a thing about…new iDevice…new iTunes?
What about iTunes 9 64 bits today?
What about iTunes 9 64 bits today?
Why on earth would you want the tablet - which is a mobile computer in itself - to have to "tether" to an iPhone for internet connectivity when they could just build it into the device itself?
In this days, the HD-logo is everywhere. On so many products, also on products wich haven't HD support (or the support is a joke). I reminds me to the german "bio" logo (in english organic?) wich is on a lot food packaging. Its nearly on each product. Also on prodcuts wich have nothing to do with the initially idea of ecological food.
its really similar to the HD industry, a lot of marketing, only a bluff.
its really similar to the HD industry, a lot of marketing, only a bluff.
Is it going to be at least 3G capable? Of course.
Is it going to have Wi-Fi? Of course.
Will it have Bluetooth? Of course.
I doubt that in the lab situation they'd have active SIM cards inside the devices unless they were actually testing that functionality at any given time, so the "No Service" thing can be laid to rest there.
I've never understood the tethering thing myself, and since this device will at the bare minimum be a 3G-capable one, that pretty much covers it. As for actual phone use, who knows. But I'll bet that with the introduction and with whoever is the data provider for the device, we'll see an entirely new line of data plans for 'em.
Is it going to have Wi-Fi? Of course.
Will it have Bluetooth? Of course.
I doubt that in the lab situation they'd have active SIM cards inside the devices unless they were actually testing that functionality at any given time, so the "No Service" thing can be laid to rest there.
I've never understood the tethering thing myself, and since this device will at the bare minimum be a 3G-capable one, that pretty much covers it. As for actual phone use, who knows. But I'll bet that with the introduction and with whoever is the data provider for the device, we'll see an entirely new line of data plans for 'em.
Maybe if you have an iPhone you can tether it to the Tablet and share the 3G? If not, then it has its own 3G, albeit at a monthly rate?
What about tactile feedback ?
On the pictures we can't see any kind of 'frame' that would be used to provide a tactile feedback when in keyboard mode. If you don't understand what i'm talking about, take a look at this patent :
https://www.macrumors.com/2009/12/2...-feedback-for-touchscreen-keyboard-revisited/
It would be great if they include this feature
On the pictures we can't see any kind of 'frame' that would be used to provide a tactile feedback when in keyboard mode. If you don't understand what i'm talking about, take a look at this patent :
https://www.macrumors.com/2009/12/2...-feedback-for-touchscreen-keyboard-revisited/
It would be great if they include this feature
Well, the point of tethering is to provide an internet connection to a device that doesn't already have one. In that case, it's extremely useful. But it's pointless if the target device already has its own connection (which most people assume the tablet will have).
The only drawback is that if the tablet requires a second data plan over and above the "unlimited" data plan that iPhone users already pay for, then it's a bit absurd. I would actually rather tether my phone to the tablet at no cost than pay for another plan, as silly as that would be.
I wouldn't expect iTunes to be 64-bit for a long time.
And if this thing really does look like a larger iPhone/iPod touch I'll be disappointed. It works great for a phone, won't work out well at all for something of this size.
Bingo.
This is exactly how the iPhone was developed. The software team developed and tested on a circuit board / hardware stuck in a wooden box. They were totally separated from the hardware team -- only 30 people at Apple saw the completed iPhone before Macworld.
Whether the image is 'projected' or not, this thing in the photo may very well be just a big box with a circuit board for testing the software.
The pic on engaget looks fake and i hope. WTF is up with those screws on the sides of the tablet?