Newton reincarnate!Apple plans to revive the
Newton.
![]() Apple Inc, which helped spawn the PDA market with
its Newton MessagePad line in the early ’90s,
plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old
fan favorite based on the company’s new mutli-touch
technology.
It appears that Jobs and Co. never gave up hope, and instead returned to the drawing board. For the past 18 months, well-respected sources tell AppleInsider, a small team of Apple engineers have been at it again, this time tapping the company’s revolutionary multi-touch technology as a foundation. 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. Makes sense - if the UPC market actually exists beyond folks switching from PDA’s. Posted: Thu - September 27, 2007 at 09:08 AM |