2010 has been one hell of an year for Apple. This year has seen more innovation from Apple than in the last 5 years combined. Early in the year, Apple announced its revolutionary tablet product, the iPad, was launched, and which received tremendous success. In fact, in a recent published statistic, it was pointed that with the iPad, Apple now has the 3rd largest market share in the mobile computing industry, just behind HP and Acer.
Apple also announced the 4th generation model of its hugely successful smartphone, the iPhone 4, which brought to the market features such as FaceTime video calling over wi-fi and the Retina Display. Even though Apple had to face some issues because of the much talked about signal-loss issue of the iPhone 4 (when held in a particular way, esp in the left hand), overall the iPhone 4 has been successful and the demand for it is still going high.
Then we also had the recently announced iMacs and the Magic Trackpad (read the linked articles for more info).
Even after all these new product launched this year, it is rumored that Apple has some other new products rolled up its sleeve for launch this year. We bring you some of the details.
- iPod – Apple’s iPod line is believed to be getting a revamp. With the amazing new camera included in the iPhone 4, there are bound to be speculations that the new iPod Touch (4th Gen) will also include a camera, possibly even 2 (which would effectively bring FaceTime calls to the iPod Touch.
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The iPod Nano and Classic may also receive a bump up in terms of screen size or capacity, but there seems to be no news of any big new hardware/features coming to these devices this year.
An image of a small touchscreen prototype, however, was leaked to the internet a while ago, and by its size, it suggests a whole new iPod Shuffle, which might have this screen as the touch panel and display.
(Image credits: Apple.pro and Mac.com.hk)
- iPad – A 7″ inch iPad is probably the most strongly rumored product that is expected to launch later this year. Apple has been experimenting with touchscreen devices of this size, and it was also rumored that the original iPad was supposed to be the 7″ inch one. Lets hope we have a cheaper and more iPad in our hands by the end of the year.
- iPhone 5 – As mentioned earlier, Apple has faced a lot of negative publicity with the issue surrounding the antenna reception problems on the iPhone 4. Apple even went ahead and hosted a press conference where they publicly accepted that the iPhone 4 had reception issues (though they claimed that it is something that every phone would experience) and offered to give away free cases to each and every iPhone 4 customer.Due to all this bad word around the iPhone 4, Apple is believed to be working on releasing the next generation of the iPhone (possibly iPhone 5) which would deal with the reception issues, and would probably feature a redesign, with the stainless steel antenna + body design changed partially or completely. All we know for sure right now is that something in going on inside Apple, and Steve Jobs is trying very hard to keep news about what’s going on at Apple, inside it.
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