Posts tagged tablet
“Windows 8, I’m afraid, is too little too late…”
Well so much for my planned “bake-off” between the Apple iPad and the Microsoft Courier…I really had high hopes for this one. Bill Gates has indicated that although the Courier has been cancelled, there are other ‘tablet based’ projects in the works.
“After nearly a decade of rumors and speculation, Apple’s finally unveiled the iPad. It’s a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it’s running a custom 1GHz Apple “A4” chip developed by P.A. Semi, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It’ll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it’s got the expected connectivity: very little. There’s a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, and 802.11n WiFi. As expected, it can run iPhone apps — either pixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen — but developers can also target the new screen size using the updated iPhone OS SDK, which is available today.”
