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According to Apple Insider, the Cupertino crew has never given up on the Newton / Apple PDA concept, and could be bringing out a new handheld device in the first half of next year that will be ‘Apple’s answer to the ultra-mobile PC’.
Details are fairly vague of course, but the new handheld is said to be based on Apple’s multi-touch technology and to run 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 720×480 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.
This could be very interesting. Will Apple be the one to really kick-start the UMPC market? Or breathe some (more) life back into the standalone PDA area?
Also – notice that part in the quoted text about leverage … drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste? THAT needs to get itself leveraged across to the iPhone, Pronto!
Check out the Apple Insider piece HERE for more details and let them / us know what you think about the prospects for this sort of offering from Apple …
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