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iPhone, iPod Touch and then what? An Apple PDA?

Wed, Sep 26, 2007 | by Stéphane Dion

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After releasing two amazing OS X based mobile devices this year, do we really think that Steve Jobs is going to stop here? The future of Apple now holds in the portable device market (and by the way my Apple shares are sky rocking at $153 today!). Right?

After hitting the cellular market like a storm with the newly released iPhone, Apple reinvented, with the iPod touch release, what they already almost invented, the media player. But what about the PDA market? With a powerful OS X based platform already available and compatible with Safari, Wi-Fi and a lot more, there’s only one step to make to reach the PDA market. Well, it didn’t take much more to Appleinsider to publish a post talking about how and when Apple could release such a device.

According to sources close to AppleInsider,
Apple is currently working on a PDA version of the iPhone-iPod Touch
platform. The device would be 1.5 times the iPhone size and the screen
resolution would be 720×480.

A device could be announced as early as the Macworld keynote next January for an availability not before mid-2008.

Folks,
even though this sounds promising, let’s keep this under the rumor file
for now. Any idea for a product name:  iPDA, iGo, iNewton, iPC…

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1 Comments For This Post

  1. Doodlydood Says:

    Sure thing….

    Add to it a few features and you really do have the ubiquitous computer and a killer platform:

    - WiMax
    - Wireless USB for KVM interface
    - ~30GB/40GB flash
    - Full OSX/Debian support
    - Fingerprint scanner
    - Proper corporate management tools
    - Next rev of iPhone applications

    Forgt the network is the computer, the iData (iPDA? iWorld?) could drastically re-write portable and desktop computing in as little as two years. The killer portion is leveraging wireless USB or local wireless protocols at high bandwidth to allow for use of a supportable LCD monitor keyboard and mouse at the desktop.