Digitimes

Rumor Mill Ramps Up Production of Cheaper and Smaller iPads

John Paczkowski in News on March 1 at 9:24 am PT

An 8 gigabyte iPad 2, and a 7.85-inch iPad mini.

AMD Gets Ultra-Competitive in Skinny Laptop Market

John Paczkowski in News on January 17 at 11:11 am PT

AMD’s new “ultrathin” laptops will also be ultra-cheap.

Supply Chain Chatter Has Two Apple TVs Targeted for Midyear Launch

John Paczkowski in News on December 27, 2011 at 10:50 am PT

The rumored Apple television now has a rumored launch date and a few rumored screen sizes as well.

Digitimes: Is a Mini iPad on the Way?

Lauren Goode in Mobile on December 16, 2011 at 10:41 am PT

Would Apple ever make a tiny tablet?

Barnes & Noble Hoping to Sell a Ton of Nook Tablets Over Holidays

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 9, 2011 at 7:54 am PT

Sources say it has ordered one million Nook Tablets from its manufacturing partners.

Really? Two New iPads and a Reboot of Apple’s Entire Product Portfolio Next Year?

John Paczkowski in News on November 3, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Two new iPads in 2012? Break out the salt lick for this one, because it’ll take more than a grain …

News Byte

LTE iPhone Expected in 2012

John Paczkowski in News on October 26, 2011 at 12:29 pm PT

Apple has evidently found a way around the design compromises that have so far dissuaded it from releasing an LTE-capable iPhone. Industry sources tell Taiwanese trade mag DigiTimes that Apple will “join the LTE club in 2012.” Presumably by that time, LTE networks and the chips required to access them will be mature enough to relieve Apple’s concerns. As Apple CEO Tim Cook said earlier this year, “The first generation of LTE chipsets force a lot of design compromises with the handset, and some of those, we are just not willing to make.”