Apple said to have settled on supplier for tablet display

A brief report out of the Far East on Friday appears to be corroborating a trio of earlier reports in stating that Apple has tapped its current iPhone touchscreen supplier to also provide the display panels for its upcoming tablet device.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 101

Apple to answer netbook market with $500-$700 tablet - report

With a conventional netbook clearly out of the question, researchers for Piper Jaffray said Thursday there's mounting evidence to suggest Apple next year will introduce its own take on the market in the form of a tablet-based device that will sell for $700 or less.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 243

Apple rumored in talks for Verizon budget phone, media tablet

The heat is stepping up for AT&T with word of negotiations to bring an Apple budget phone and a media tablet to Verizon, one of which may show its face within just a few months.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 94

Jobs active at Apple, still working on tablet-sized device

Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs is still very much involved in his company's direction even as he recuperates at home — and is said to be on track with a new portable device larger than the company's handhelds.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 174

Apple orders 10-inch touchscreens for mystery product

Adding fuel to rumors of a so-called "netbook" under development inside Apple, Reuters is now citing its own sources in saying the touchscreens ordered by the company measure 10 inches diagonally.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 243

More corroboration of tablet device brewing at Apple

Apple is indeed working on tablet-like device that may finally surface sometime next year according to a trio of sources who've been in touch with high-tech blog TechCrunch.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 60

Apple finally outed as mysterious PowerVR licensee

New evidence that Apple is the mysterious licensee of Imagination Technologies Group's PowerVR mobile graphics technology broke today, when the company publicly announced that Apple has subscribed to 8 million new shares of IMG, giving the iPhone maker a 3% stake in the firm. A press release also revealed Apple to be a licensee of Imagination's technology.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 28

Apple pushing for patent on versatile tablet docking station

Apple continues to file for patents on a versatile docking station that would be ideal for a tablet computer larger than the iPhone and offer the option of charging the device through either metal contacts or induction.

Slash Lane 17 years ago 35

Apple device sized between iPhone, MacBook detected online

Apple chief Steve Jobs' has dismissed any immediate plans to enter the netbook field, but a new discovery online points to a mystery device with a resolution in between its pocketable devices and its notebooks.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 81

Intel shows off working Moorestown MID device

Intel on Monday showed off a prototype handheld based on Moorestown, its upcoming Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform designed to enable a new generation of ultra-thin, touchscreen devices with extensive battery life.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 24

Apple suspected in new deal for PowerVR graphics in multi-touch devices

Apple is believed to have extended a deal with Imagination Technologies that will see graphics cores from the chipmaker situated in future multi-touch devices for years to come.

Kasper Jade & Prince McLean 17 years ago 8

Apple looks to take multi-touch beyond the touch-screen

With its competitors struggling to catch up with multi-touch technology introduced last year as part of the iPhone, Apple is already conceptualizing new versions of the technology that would fuse a variety of secondary inputs with today's touch-based gestures to produce more efficient data input operations.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 37

Apple details next-gen multi-touch techniques for tablet Macs

In a revised company filing discovered by AppleInsider, iPhone maker Apple Inc. illustrates a number of techniques that would pave the way for tablet Macs that display a near full-sized multi-touch keyboard and run an undiluted version of the Mac OS X operating system.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 107

Apple's Best Buy play makes 12m iPhones "very conservative"

An agreement for Best Buy to start selling iPhones will help make already strong estimates for Apple's device sales seem all too modest, according to an investment note from Lehman Brothers.

Aidan Malley 17 years ago 30

Intel may cater to Apple with system-on-a-chip, dual-core Atom

Intel's options for Apple and other customers interested in ultra-portable devices are about to expand thanks to the official launch of an all-in-one processor and a dual-core version of its Atom processor.

Aidan Malley 17 years ago 33

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