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A Forthcoming Apple Multi-touch Tablet - Newton Returns?
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2007-09-26 13:55:44
We know Apple has had at least one PDA in development since the venerable Newton was axed in the late 90's - CEO Jobs admitted it, and that the company decided not to ship. And while Jobs has long maintained that Apple would not be getting into the PDA market, the iPhone and iPod touch are, more or less, PDAs.It seems our friends in Cupertino may be about to take things a few steps farther, as AppleInsider reports.It appears that Jobs and Co. never gave up hope, and instead returned to the drawing board. For the past 18 months, well-respected sources tell AppleInsider, a small team of Apple engineers have been at it again, this time tapping the company's revolutionary multi-touch technology as a foundation.
During that time, sources have observed the project slip in and out of limbo, as Apple struggled to meet its self-imposed June, 2007 launch date for the iPhone. In at least two instances, the company pulled software engineers off the project to assist in the completion of the iPhone software, only to return those same engineers to the their original task months later.
With the initial iPhone now out the door and two successive models well underway in Apple's labs, it's believed to be full steam ahead for the modern day Newton project. Like iPhone and the iPod touch, the new device runs an embedded version of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard operating system.
Externally, the mutil-touch PDA has been described by sources as an ultra-thin "slate" akin to the iPhone, about 1.5 times the size and sporting an approximate 720x480 high-resolution display that comprises almost the entire surface of the unit. The device is further believed to leverage multi-touch concepts which have yet to gain widespread adoption in Apple's existing multi-touch products -- the iPhone and iPod touch -- like drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste. We can only hope with fingers tightly crossed. Stay tuned.
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