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A new apple competitor?

Sorry if this has been posted before. Some people don't see the iPhone or Touch a competitor to the Internet tablet. How about this?

http://images.appleinsider.com/newto...ion-070925.png

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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.

During that time, sources have observed the project slip in and out of limbo, as Apple struggled to meet its self-imposed June, 2007 launch date for the iPhone. In at least two instances, the company pulled software engineers off the project to assist in the completion of the iPhone software, only to return those same engineers to the their original task months later.

With the initial iPhone now out the door and two successive models well underway in Apple's labs, it's believed to be full steam ahead for the modern day Newton project. Like iPhone and the iPod touch, the new device runs an embedded version of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard operating system.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...he_newton.html

Re: A new apple competitor?

Macworld 2008 in January may be quite interesting!

Re: A new apple competitor?

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this time tapping the company's revolutionary multi-touch technology as a foundation.

Just how much does the iPhone use multiple touches? I know it is used for zoom, but is there anything else? It is always being referred to as multi-touch, but it mostly seems to be just a regular touch interface.

I've seen an image viewer that did zoom very easily with a double-tap+hold, dragging up and down to zoom in and out, which is probably an easier way to control it anyway.