The screen will remain roughly 10-inches diagonal and “feature both front and rear cameras,” Topolsky reports. “Our sources say with near certainty that the device will have a dedicated SD slot built in (with no traditional USB slot).”
Topolsky also reports on Apple’s next-gen iPhone 5 that will cement “the complete move away from Infineon to Qualcomm” and will be running “Apple’s new A5 CPU (a Cortex A9-based, multi-core chip). This device, like the iPad 2, will feature a Qualcomm chipset that does triple duty as the CDMA / GSM / UMTS baseband processor — from what we hear there’s no LTE in the mix at this point. One other interesting tidbit: Apple is at work on the second generation of its redesigned Apple TV, which will include that new A5 processor. The CPU is said to be blazingly fast, cranking out 1080p video ‘like running water.'”
Much more in the full article here.
ha! like running water! that’s about what ballmy will feel trickling down his pants and legs when he sees iPad2!
iPad2:
A5
Cameras
1 gb ram
Sd
iPhone5:
A5
NFC
Liquidmetal
World chip
iOS Cataclysm!
Apple also needs to focus on and finally fix iTunes. It’s so overloaded, slow and buggy.
USB sucks
I want firewire
and again, WHEN DO WE GET APPLESCRIPT ON IOS
If this is true, they need to open the app store to the Apple TV in the worst way. Heck, they need to do that now.
As I’ve noted previously, I skipped the 1G iPad in the hope of more storage. An SD slot would be the next best (or even better) thing, provided it’s accessible to all apps.
@Jax44
I dont think that apple would put 1gb RAM in the iPad just yet, as their iterations are more of a general improvement, to earn more money. Otherwise, the iPad would already have 512mb and the ipodtouch would have had a camera ages ago.
Apple need to hurry up and up the iPod Touch to 128GB, so that I can replace my 5-year-old, still fully-functional but way outdated, iPod Classic. I hope they realize that people want to use that kind of device not just for music, but for all the apps, and a large amount of HD video shooting. Please Apple, come to your senses! I’ll pay $499 if I have to!
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Solid, can you explain to us exactly how we can run multitouch programs from the aTv? The best we could hope for would be to run them from an iPad, or iPhone. But then, what would be the
point?
An SD slot would be huge and overcome storage
limitations.
@Palaver –
You’ve been saying the same thing on a few threads: iTunes sucks. Can you be more precise? While most of us would agree that it could load faster, that it should handle multiple libraries better, and that the iTunes App store needs better categorization for searching, we can be specific about those issues. On the whole, iTunes, which as you know is unparalleled on any other platform and therefore an obvious target for FUD, is incredibly powerful. What issues, specifically, are you having and how have you tried addressing them?
Isn’t the current TV the 2nd generation, so a major renovation would be 3rd gen?
@Palaver,
Really? iTunes 10 is blazingly fast on my MacBook Pro with a huge library.
Good gawd, I just bought the new ATV and they’re going to upgrade to a newer one already???
PC Mag will be screaming even louder about the lack of card readers on Mac laptops!
@Palaver:
Can you elaborate on what’s wrong with iTunes? I use it alot and run into no issues whatsoever (except that connecting to the iTune Store is sometimes a little slow).
Yes, but imagine what Consumer Distorts will say?
I ordered the iPad the day it came out. I decided not to wait for the next model because iPad does everything I want and need to do. Now, darn it! The iPad 2 will probably do things I didn’t know I needed to do!
Palaver, your hit-and-run posts are getting old. Just repeating the same line over and over isn’t how you become a seasoned troll. Read the posts of the masters like Zune Tang or R2 for some guidance on this, because what your doing is just sad.
…especially if you’re going to go after iTunes, which is one of the most robust, elegant, and trouble-free applications I’ve eve used, and I’ve been using it since it was Soundjam.
Try harder.
iTunes is the center of Apple’s digital hub — for iPhones, iPods, iPads, so what you see is on the Apple hater sites the same FUD said and repeated — iTunes is slow, bloated, a resource hog. It’s hard to use (!), etc.
All part of a grass roots hater effort to take down the mother ship. I use iTunes on both the Mac and Windows XP sides of my MacBook Pro, as well as on an Acer ultraportable running Windows 7, and in all these scenarios it runs fast and responsive.
But the above criticisms have become accepted dogma for the anti-Apple crowd.
Guess it’s up to us to combat such FUD where we find it.
I simply want Safari for our Apple TV 2 without having to jailbreak it!
I’m already able to stream 1080p content to my AppleTV. If the Mac or the AppleTV are downscaling it on the fly, I couldn’t tell either from a quality standpoint or a “smoothness” standpoint.
Try it yourselves. Download a couple full 1080p movie previews from iTunes then Airplay them to your AppleTV.
It’s simply going to be awhile before Apple starts renting 1080p content.
have itunes on both macs. my hp, and no issues. have over 80 gigs of music, and about 40 gigs of videos, not to mention a few seasons of tv series, and works fine. Yes, when i’m starting up it is not up instant, but it loads 5 times faster than my win 7 does at start up, so i cannot complain. have never lost any music, vids, or crashed on either the win or mac sides, and cross platform sharing is so easy when i want to pull or use any item form another comp.
Oh yes, a combo Verizon/AT&T iphone this June would be da’ bomb.
That would be yet another blow against the telco stupidity.