The Apple iWalk

Jan 03, 2002 1:07pm CST tags: Mac
Looks like Apple just cant keep a secret. The details of what most people are pretty sure is their next big announcement have been leaked a few places. Jason pointed the way to this page. It looks like in addition to the mobile MP3 player market the Apple folks are now launching a PDA being called the iWalk. Looks quite a bit like the Compaq iPaq.

Apple fans should be happy to hear that the iWalk is not based on the Palm OS. The OS shown in the video looks like a blend between traditional PDA operating systems and Apple's OS X. Some other interesting observations: The iWalk accepts handwriting input with a silver stylus. The user is able to write on the entire screen to input information, and is not limited to a small "text box" like of the Palm line of PDAs. The iWalk is larger than PDAs currently on the market, with the majority of the extra size being given to screen real-estate.

Damn, was hoping for the G5 system breaking in to the 1GHz range. update: Last time I trust Jason! Ok a lot of people are convinced this is fake, much like the Cube stuff. It wouldnt be far fetched to say the video is fake from looking at it, but that doesnt rule out the possibility of the iWalk coming to light at the next show.

        

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