Jan 26
McGraw-Hill’s CEO stated on CNBC that their textbooks will be available of the Apple iSlate:
“Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now — we have a consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are in e-book format on that one. So now with the tablet you’re going to open up the higher education market, the professional market. The tablet is going to be just really terrific.”
This statement seems to confirm that the iSlate will run on the iPhone OS which had been previously speculated (Apple iSlate Reviews – September 28th, 2009).
Tagged with: iPhone • OS • textbook
Jan 07
A brief report by Engadget today suggested that the new iSlate will look alot like a “big iPhone” but will be much more. Additionally, sources indicate multi-carrier support for the iSlate:
“Rumor…indicates that the device itself will have the internal hardware to work with multiple wireless providers, with Verizon apparently getting priority but there being no single-carrier tie here.”
The Business Insider added that sources who have seen the OS say it has “A Good Bit Of New Sexy To It,” which has raised expectations for a unique UI in the new tablet.
Tagged with: big iPhone • iPhone • multi-carrier • unique UI • verizon
Jan 05
According to MacRumors the iSlate may run on the new ARM Cortex A9 processor. This would be a natural extension of Apple’s use of the A8 range processors (predecessor to the A9) in its iPhones.
Unlike the A8 processors, the Cortex A9 is a multi-core processor with a superior performance-to-power ratio.
“The Cortex A9 would be a particularly good fit for the rumored Apple Tablet, as such a device is seemingly positioning itself between a mobile phone and notebook. Such a device would likely be tasked with more processor intensive tasks and be priced against Atom powered netbooks. “
Tagged with: ARM • Atom • Cortex A9 • iPhone
Dec 25
MacRumors has found that a Delaware-based company, Slate Computing, LLC, founded recently in November 2006, owns the trademark “iSlate”. Now, it turns out that the signatory of said trademark is Apple’s Senior Trademark Specialist Regina Porter. Add the fact that Apple also owns the “iSlate” trademark in Europe, and that it has historically used other companies or shells to acquire trademarks as it did with the iPhone trademark… and could it be? Is “iSlate” the name of the new Apple tablet? It’s impossible to say at this point but all indications certainly suggest an interest in the trademark by Apple although for what purpose is not clear yet. With a major annoucement expected in January, we may all know with certainty soon enough!!
Tagged with: iPhone • iSlate • name • trademark
Dec 23
The Business Insider reports that Apple could be ready to demo its long awaited tablet in January according to an industry source. It appears that Apple has asked select iPhone App developers to prepare their applications for a demo in January:
“They’ve told select developers that as long as they build their apps to support full screen resolution — rather than a fixed 320×480 — their apps should run just fine.”
Tagged with: App Store • demo • iPhone
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