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Can I have a portable one of these please? Oh, and can you put the screen and remote inside the box please?
Okay, so Apple’s Rock ‘n’ Roll announcement was very nice, and had some good updates and new products. Particularly the new little Nano with video capture – very cheeky, and perfect for the ‘gimme now’ generation…!
But Apple’s announcement disappointed a lot of people on many levels – that in itself doesn’t matter so much you can bet one or another announcement over the next six months will hoover up all the requests that people are making – but in the meanwhile people will continue to ask for stuff – inlcuding me!
I’m not Kerr-azy with the scope of my requirements – in fact, I have only one requirement – I want a portable Apple TV please.
Now this portable device should surpass the features found in the current Apple TV, but also be thin/light enough to be portable (and useful) – and don’t tell me it ain’t possible, people thought the iPhone couldn’t be done until Apple rolled it out!
The Apple TV has (oddly) turned out to be the device that Apple hasn’t focused on – for reasons unknown to many. But it has the potential to be something great, if it were re-packaged as a Mobile device. That Mobile device could even take the form factor of the Apple Tablet that many are talking about, but it would need to have some key features:
- HD Video playback – 1080p please
- Nice big screen
- HDMI out
- Video Capture – perhpaps not 1080p, but passable
- Multiple Connectivity options – so that streaming is an option
- Nice big rack of solid-state storage – 32GB+ please
- Other secondary features – touch keypad anyone?
I suppose in some respects I might be making a case for an Apple Tablet, but then again I wouldn’t want the Tablet primarily as a device that you could email/browse on. Instead I primarily want a multimedia hub that I can take with me, and plug in to a TV anywhere.
So will Apple give me one? Well I’d bet on an HD iPhone within the next year, so maybe that will do most of what Apple TV does – only time, as they say, will tell!
About The Author
Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
