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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 10 March 2009 | |
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The iPod touch provides web and email access providing your connectivity needs are satisfied by WiFi. If you need the (almost) always-on connectivity delivered via the mobile phone networks, there's the iPhone 3G. According to at least one measure, mobile browsing represents a tiny fraction of web use, even though the lion's share of it is taken by the iPhone and iPod touch. For some purposes - and admittedly this is based on brief experience with various products - Apple's handhelds provide as good an experience as netbooks. But even with the easy-to-use zoom capability, that small screen can be a big disadvantage. So it would make a lot of sense if Apple's 'real' netbook turned out to be an oversized iPod touch rather than a shrunken MacBook. Apple's been talking down netbooks, but that happened with video-capable iPods. So what other clues are there about the company's intentions? See page 2. |
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