The rumour mine: 5MP iPhone 4G, 7-inch Apple tablet in January, devs told to make full-screen apps
Goin' down down down
We only recorded the podcast this morning and already there are two more rumours to go in the rumour mine.
The first is related to the Apple Tablet, one of the most hyped non-existent and unannounced products of the year. Over the past few weeks a couple of magazine publishers have put out videos demonstrating their magazines running on prototype versions of the Tablet, and now it seems Apple is starting to prepare its developer community.
According to a source speaking to Business Insider, "[Apple has] told select developers that as long as they build their apps to support full screen resolution -- rather than a fixed 320x480 -- their apps should run just fine." This would seem to imply that current iPhone apps and games will also run on the Tablet.
Meanwhile Boy Genius reports that a 7-inch Apple Tablet will be available in January. The story sheds no further light on the more commonly predicted 10-inch model. Business Insider makes the very reasonable suggestion that the Tablet will be available in a range of sizes, with the 7-incher - or rather a demo of it - coming first in January.
That ain’t but hardly a week yonder!
In other news, sources speaking to DigiTimes have revealed that OmniVision, which supplies the 3.2 megapixel camera in the iPhone 3G and 3GS, “has secured 5-megapixel CIS orders for the next-generation iPhone model, which will hit shelves sometime during the second half of 2010.”
The improvement from the original iPhone’s 2 megapixel to the 3G’s 3.2 was fairly considerable, so if this rumoured advance occurs - and there’s absolutely no reason to doubt it will - then iPhone 4G owners will be able to enjoy the forthcoming wave of augmented reality apps all the more.
