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Intel Germany chief Hannes Schwaderer reportedly spilled the beans during the company's 40th birthday celebration at BMW World in Munich, adding that the device is expected to be powered by one of his firm's Atom ultra-mobile device chipsets.
"Schwaderer today confirms what has long been a rumor on the Internet: namely, that there is an iPhone with Intel's new Atom chip," reads a report in the German edition of ZDNet. "The device is slightly larger than the current version, Schwaderer said. This is not [because of] the Intel chip, but [because of] the larger display used in the new iPhone."
AppleInsider exclusively reported last September that Apple, which helped spawn the PDA market with its Newton MessagePad line in the '90s, was planning to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation based on the its mutli-touch technology.
The device has been described by sources as an ultra-thin "slate" akin to the iPhone and running an embedded version of the Mac OS X Leopard operating system.
Artist depiction of future tablet device alongside Apple's existing handhelds | Artwork by audiopollution.
In a followup report published in December, AppleInsider went on to reveal that Apple would adopt Intel's ultra-mobile PC platform — later renamed Atom — for use in the much rumored Newton mini tablet and possibly future generation iPhone devices.
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124 Comments
If real, I sure hope it's not bigger than 5.5"x8.5".
I doubt it will be a phone if it is bigger than the current iPhone. Maybe built-in HSPA feature for internet access only.
However, this sounds interesting. 3G iPhone this week and the tablet on WWDC08?! Probably explain the AT&T vacation memo and todays iPhone limit memo. I might be wrong.
Ok, waiting for the comments saying that because of this comment, Apple will change chip sources to AMD. As though that could happen.
Ok, waiting for the comments saying that because of this comment, Apple will change chip sources to AMD. As though that could happen.
I don't know Mel. An Apple tablet with a tri core Phenom would ROCK.
As Jobs has publicly stated that the Kindle is a piece of crap and people "don't read books anymore" - I predict this is the Apple iKindle.