The next iteration of the iPad - the death of telephony?

David Heath
Tuesday, 06 April 2010 15:30

Your IT - Mobility

Leaked information describes what the next iPad might look like.  Readers may-well be surprised.

A leading iPhone 'hacking' group has been given insider information on the next version of the iPad.

According to the confidential internal material, the next iPad will be much smaller, permitting it to be carried in the pocket or handbag.  In addition, a 13kbits/sec (minimum) speech codec will permit phone-like services to use the iPad mini (my name for it) without resorting to the wireless telephony services so intrinsic to the iPhone.  This may be the rumoured 7" iPad which clearly wasn't the device announced by Steve Jobs (and released over the weekend).

This news appears to suggest that the iPad may never be a genuine phone, instead relying on VoIP services to carry telephony.  The device will instead use WiFi and 3G purely and simply as a data-carrying service. 

Should these rumours (and my interpretation) be true, then the device will certainly need to rely on the multi-tasking scheduler rumoured to be included in the upcoming 4.0 OS.

We await news with bated breath.