New Devices Expected from Apple via Verizon: iPhone Light and Media Pad? - iPhoneHeat

New Devices Expected from Apple via Verizon: iPhone Light and Media Pad?

Apple and Verizon are in talks to distribute two new devices similar to iPhone, an Apple Media Pad and an iPhone Lite, Business Week reported.

According to the two People who have seen the two devices that

Apple has created prototypes of the devices, and discussions reaching back a half-year have involved Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

One device is a smaller, less expensive calling device described by a person who has seen it as an “iPhone lite.” The other is a media pad that would let users listen to music, view photos, and watch high-definition videos, the person says. It would place calls over a Wi-Fi connection. One of these devices may be introduced as early as this summer, one person says.

The new iPhone-like device is slightly thinner and smaller than the existing iPhone, people say. The reason the device is much cheaper than existing iPhones is that it relies on a so-called system on a chip, which incorporates many types of chips and drives down the cost of silicon in such devices, says one source familiar with the design. This new chip could also potentially be used in the media pad.

“It will have a much lower cost that will blow away the margins on the BlackBerry and the iPhone,” the person says.

The media pad is smaller than an Amazon (AMZN) Kindle electronic reader, but its touchscreen is bigger than the Kindle’s, says the person who has seen it.

“The media pad category might go to Verizon,” said the person who has seen the device. “We are talking about a device where people will say, ‘Damn, why didn’t we do this?’ Apple is probably going to define the damn category.”

via iClarified

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