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Either Google’s art department purposely manipulated a image in the company’s latest Nexus 10 tablet, or Google just quietly revealed its next-generation 100 % pure Android slate.
As noted by a number of Android fan blogs on Monday, Google has updated its I/O conference website with a peculiar new image. In the photo, someone is tapping on a tablet that doesn’t quite look like anything we’ve seen to date.
The shape of the tablet and the placement of some buttons in fact looks like the Nexus 10 tablet, as some blogs have observed, but the device appears to be a bit smaller than the 10-inch Nexus and the bezels on the sides of the tablet are nowhere near as wide as they are on the Nexus 10.
Did Google’s art department intentionally manipulate a photo of the Nexus 10 so that it looks like a different device? Is this the Nexus 8 that Google is rumored by some to be planning to reveal at Google I/O on June 25th?
No person knows for certain right now, but we only have a few short weeks left until we find out.
When a new jail break "tweak" called OS Experience is allowing for Apple iPad users have fun with split-screen multitasking, new rumours has Apple adding the feature to iOS 8. Currently, users of Apple's iOS flavored slate could only view one application at the time, using the entire real estate available on the screen. If the rumor pans out, those with an iPad will be able to split the screen to use multiple applications at the similar time.
This is not the latest feature by any stretch of the creative imagination, as some Samsung tablets, and the Microsoft Surface already offer this type of multitasking. The fact that the iPad lacks multitasking, was highlighted by Microsoft in some of its television commercials that compared Apple's tablet to the Surface. If you are wondering how this split-screen multitaking might work, check out the idea video, which is part of the video slideshow below.
According to the rumor, the split-screen feature could be available on full-sized, 9.7 inch iPads, and would work only in landscape orientation. Other new features expected for iOS 8 include the Healthbook application, which would give you a place to store all of the medical information and readings obtained by an Apple iWatch or other iOS devices. Also a possibility on the next iOS build, is a public transit feature for Apple Maps. But don't get too excited. There is talk that these new capabilities for iOS might have to be scrubbed until iOS 8.1.
source: 9to5Mac via TechCrunch
