Apple May Be Planning a Replacement for the Newton

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  1. Ed Hardy

    Ed Hardy TabletPCReview Editor Staff Member

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    According to an unconfirmed report, Apple, Inc. is developing a mobile computer larger than an iPhone but smaller than laptop or tablet PC. The rumors of itssize and shapeare drawing comparisons to Apple's Newton, the original PDA.

    Seeking Alpha cites unnamed sources when it says Apple is prepping a device with a 5.2-inch, 800-by-480-pixel touchscreen. This will supposedly have a landscape orientation, and be held by the the user between their hands.

    It is not expected to have a hardware keyboard; instead it will depend on a virtual one, as the iPhone and iPod touch do, with the user entering text on the screen with their thumbs.

    Details are very sketchy at this point, and there is no word on whether this model will run the embedded version of OS X as Apple's handhelds and smartphones do, or the full version of this operating system.

    Thisdevice will reportedlynot be thetablet PC that Apple is also rumored to be working on. Thatmodelis expected tohave a significantly larger screen --7 to 10 inches -- and will likely run the full version of OS X.

    It is not known when Apple willintroduce this portable device, but Seeking Alpha says it is probably still on the drawing board, andtherefore is likely targeted for release late next year.


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  2. Matt J

    Matt J Mobile Deity

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    This is a great time to be alive. So many options to choose from! Who declared the traditional handheld dead?! (Oh, yeah, that was Palm Inc.)
     
    Matt J, Dec 28, 2007
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    Tom LaPrise Absent-Minded Professor

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    Sounds like a scaled-up Tapwave Zodiac with an Apple OS. Interesting.
     
    Tom LaPrise, Dec 28, 2007
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    I expect, or at least hope, this to have a 3G connection, and if so, why not also have telephone functionality? Palm has done their best to kill off the traditional handheld by means of a slow, agonizing death of starvation of imagination. But Apple is alive and well.
     
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    ain't that the truth!
    just hope my TX can last until such an alleged device is available. :p
     
    berylrb, Dec 28, 2007
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    RobbM Big Shot in the Lab

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    Here's a little additional info

    http://arstechnica.com/journals/app...ay-use-intel-menlow-platform-in-upcoming-umpc

    A UMPC would explain the iPhone's lack of onboard "Office" capabilities, unlike, say, the Treo & BlackJack. Although Apple has been known to cannibalize its own products, its rare. I think this product may have been in the works for quite some time (provided it exists) and although the iPhone is the flagship portable device, Apple may have purposefully left features off.

    I'll bet the iPhone and the UMPC will work together like Palm's Foleo. That would be neat.
     
    RobbM, Dec 28, 2007
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  7. RickAgresta

    RickAgresta Peanut, leader of the Peanutty Forces

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    it'd also be something of a slap in the face for Palm, imho :newpalm:
     
    RickAgresta, Dec 28, 2007
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  8. DragonHunter

    DragonHunter Bow, bow, bow, bow

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    Sounds similar to the Nokia 800 series...but with an Apple OS...give me something the form factor of an Asus Eee and add a PCMIA slot and then we'd have something! (But I guess, if as mentioned above, you throw phone capabilites internal, you could leave that off....)
     
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  9. Adama D. Brown

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    Between the iPhone and the iPod Touch, I think that that would be the least of all the ways that Apple is backhanding the Big Orange.
     
    Adama D. Brown, Dec 28, 2007
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    I'm gonna wait for the Tablet PC.
     
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