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There's a large gulf in battery life between phones and laptops - there are plenty of times where I'd like to browse something on my laptop, but I don't feel li
by xsmasher 17y ago
There's a large gulf in battery life between phones and laptops - there are plenty of times where I'd like to browse something on my laptop, but I don't feel like getting the charger from the other room and plugging in. So a device that gets 8-12hrs battery life under use would have a different use profile.
There are also apps like instant messengers, skype, email etc. that you'd like to be always-on. The iPhone is a one-app-at-a-time, goes-to-sleep often device that's not well suited to those applications.
Slapping in a user-facing camera for video calls would also differentiate it from the iPhone.
- chaosmachine 17y agoPutting a user-facing camera in a tablet device sounds hard. It works in laptops because they're fixed in place, and it could work in a phone because they're easy to hold with one hand. A tablet would probably be too big/heavy to hand-hold. Putting it on a flat surface wouldn't work either, unless the camera could swivel somehow, and Apple isn't really big on moving parts.
- die_sekte 17y agoI think that there are some patents by Apple which describe cameras behind the screen. Say thay use multiple Nano 5th Gen cameras and some magic to scale/whatever.
- xsmasher 17y agoThere's always optical image stabilization. Adding electronic image stabilization plus face detection could help out; sort of a "software steadycam".