Excuse me while I cram this chunk of salt down my throat. Now that we’ve put that out of the way lets chat about the return of the Newton. AppleInsider has some insider info that a team of engineers has taken the multi-touch technology and is busy working on Newton 2.0 or has been for the better part of the past 18 months. During that time the project has sputtered due to the iPhone, but it seems to be back on track.
The purported Newton 2.0 will run a mini me version of Leopard and its form factor is in line with the iPhone/Touch, but much bigger, about 1.5 times bigger. The high-resolution display will supposedly be 720×480 with new multi-touch concepts like drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste.
The Newton 2.0 is rumored to launch sometime in the first half of next year so maybe we’ll see something at Mac World.
Up next for Apple: the return of the Newton [AppleInsider]
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I don’t know why Apple would release a PDA without a phone capability…
Then again, they did release a phone in 2007 without 3G.
7 things I’d like to see in the new NewTon
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I had one of the original newtons and it was a pretty handy piece of kit for office work. It didnt survive the move in a box from one base to another while I was stationed in Germany and I was devastated. If I still had it now, it would be a litle piece of history.
I want a speaker DUAL SD slots minimum at minimum a 4″ VGA screen and it damned well better be OPEN and not close or I have ZERO interest.