Apple’s 10” 3G

Whenever Apple comes on the market with something new it makes the other producers to redefine their products in order to keep up with the novelties Apple is bringing. It is the case with the 10” 3G enabled tablet which initially was conceived as an R & D project (according to a report that has been issued 2 years ago by ‘AppleInsider’) to regenerate the lost in time Newton MessagePad. Steve Jobs, the CE at Apple, is the one that originally designed the device and wants to release it in a flawless state of operating. That is why during these last two years it has taken a lot of revising and resetting with aspects of the device being re-evaluated and re-positioned. There were moments when people working close to the project had their doubts regarding the ever release of this product as it happened with PDA device he had stopped few years after coming back to the company. But it seems that it is not the case with this Apple’s 10” 3G enabled tablet announced to be released between January and March expected to have a price between the cost of an iPhone and Apple’s Mac notebook.

Rumors say that Apple might drop the relationship it has with AT&T wireless provider considering that because of some of At&T’s delays on iPhone experience, Verizon Wireless might take the place in providing Internet access for Apple’s tablet device. A lot of issues have been considered and revised while working at this project, most of them having to do with the image that the tablet may have in respect to the iPhone. When it was originally conceived, the device was supposed to be equipped with Intel’s first Atom processor for lately to be dubbed by Silverthorn. At that time the vice president of Intel’s Apple division showed a lot of excitement upon the possibility that Apple was reported to use the chipmaker’s technology on its gadgets. But in time it was proved that the products designated to adopt Atom never got materialized and this happened because Apple wasn’t satisfied with the battery life achieved from pre-production devices that used such chips. Therefore Apple had set forth an objective to create its own ARM-based designs famous for their superior characteristics in regard to power management.

Meanwhile Intel’s vice president of mobility, Shane Wall, together with the director of chipmaker’s ultra-mobility ecosystem, Pantaj Kedia, have censured the iPhone as being a device that depends on a technology far behind what Intel could offer. They declared that for running full Internet one has to do it on an Intel-based structure, claiming the problems iPhone encountered while trying to run any sort of application that asks for horse power. They added the fact that the flaws existing in iPhone do not belong to Apple, but to the ARM-based designs which even if they prove to be capable they still lack high performance. But both of the executives’ comments lead to a later issue correction made by Anand Chandrasekher, the Intel’s senior vice president who considered the comments as inappropriate admitting that Atom had a lot of distance to cover before reaching the level of competition with the power efficiency provided by ARM chips for handheld devices.