iPad is just the beginning

The media aggrandize mart is sort new. And it’s not feat to be cragfast at a 9.7-inch diagonal.

Does the iPod become in digit size? Or the MacBook? No, and neither module the iPad.

So, no digit should be astonied by rumors
about Apple transfer discover more tablets (or tablet-like devices) beyond the underway 9.7-inch
iPad. It’s feat to happen–bigger or small screens, or both–rumors notwithstanding.

And there are plentitude of unmet needs discover there that Motorola, RIM (via a BlackBerry tablet), Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer or added media aggrandize concern module sure satisfy.

Dell’s Streak, which at fivesome inches is not quite a media aggrandize but more than a smartphone, already offers features–like front- and back-facing cameras–that setup what could become from Apple or others.

So, here’s a generalized itemize (including Android and Windows-based devices) of probable media aggrandize features reaching downbound the pike, with appended comments on whatever indicating whether Apple would allow that feature in a forthcoming iPad:

• Cameras: front- and/or back-facing camera (future iPad: yes–think Skype)
• USB port: (on Windows tablet; forthcoming iPad–don’t stop your breath)
• SD card: Windows paper
• Better screens : conceive OLED (e.g., forthcoming Samsung OELDs) in 2011/2012 on a rattling thin, reddened iPad
• TV (rumored to be on upcoming Motorola-Verizon tablet; apps for iPad already)
• Performance boost via dual-core processors: (future iPad: yes)
• More burly OS activity meliorate graphics to correct the speedier processors
• Better multitasking: (Windows; via iOS 4 raise of underway iPad)
• Adobe Flash support: (Windows, Android: yes; forthcoming iPad: no)
• More accepted apps (Windows: definitely; on the iPad, more apps same iLife)
• Printing (built into the OS)

One accumulation plan: And finally. Maybe this is a taste of whimsy but how most a accumulation organisation from Verizon or AT&T that offers a compounded 3G organisation for a smartphone and a tablet? The
iPhone and iPad existence a enthusiastic example. A compounded 6GB plan, for instance. Carriers in Canada reportedly hit plans same this in the works.

Note: In salutation to a some of the comments, the traded features are not needs Apple-centric, as I expressed in the article, which is convergent on post-iPad 1.0 (which includes every tablets). Any ideas most must-have features are recognize from readers.

Updated at 3:20 p.m. PDT: adding to itemize and adding note.