Rumor: Apple Tablet is ‘iPhone on Steroids’
You can add one more Apple tablet rumor to your list. The device, which some believe could be unveiled later this month, bears a striking resemblance to an “iPhone on steroids.” The tablet and the handset are so close internally, the Cupertino, Calif. company has delayed updating the iPhone OS to prevent technical details from leaking, according to a new report.
“There hasn’t been an updated iPhone OS build because there’s too much tablet-code/references in the OS,” according to the Boy Genuis Report, citing “close Apple connects who haven’t steered us wrong.”
Other details about the upcoming device include that the tablet uses the iPhone’s kernal and an “incredibly fast” ARM CPU. That appears to echo an earlier report that the tablet will use an ARM processor manufactured by P.A. Semi, which Apple owns.
The report also describes the device’s multi-touch gestures as “out of control.” The tablet’s internal model number, potentially useful to track the device in ‘the wild’, is supposedly K48AP.
- Via BGR
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
