Mini-touchscreen component destined for an unknown Apple device surfaces

By on Jul 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM
General July 9, 2010

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Tw.apple.pro published a series of photos of an unusual Apple-branded touchscreen component. The photos were obtained from a source presumably deep within one of Apple’s manufacturing partners. The part measures 3 cm x 3 cm and contains what appears to be a display connector and a touchpad connector. Speculation is running rampant as no one, including the source, knows what device (if any) may be the final home for this part. We have a few more close-ups after the jump for anyone interested in trying to solve this mystery.

[Via 9to5 Mac]

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  • Blaze

    Its a friggen trackpad. GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE THATS NUTS. Im willing to bet will see these in octobers laptops mark my words.

    the future

    • Kevin Gossett

      So, a trackpad that is less than an inch and a quarter squared? That’s a rather small trackpad…

  • Pat Chocolate Starfish

    It looks like a one legged, one armed, mini robot flexing its only mini arm. But its muscle is drooping so he has to hang out at iPhone Weenie Hut Jr.

    • Jai

      You made a funny:)

  • http://www.cic.com Dan

    It may be used for biometric signature authentication!
    Cheers,
    D

  • Yousif Akram

    IPHONE MINI!!!!!!

  • http://www.aonbd.net Dan

    Is this what it will be used for?

    http://www.cic.com

  • Numa

    iPod pico …

  • medievalist

    It’s going to be on the top of the revamped Apple TV.

  • medievalist

    Nevermind. I guess I should have paid attention to the specs. 3cm x 3cm. Who knows?

  • http://www.machoe.com Mac Hoe

    I bet it wont play movies, will only show album artwork and definitely will use gesture controls. It will be the best iPod Shuffle ever…

  • Todd

    looks like a solar panel. could it be they are going more Eco friendly?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

    • BCB

      i agree.

  • PWN5TAR

    Thumbprint scanner/reader/lock?

  • PWN5TAR

    yeah, it does kinda look like a solar cell..

  • maxpayne79

    could be the outside screen on an iphone flip

    • maxpayne79

      and i mean a prototype iphone 4 flip

  • Doc Vandalay

    It’s a biometric zombie patch that will be attached to all apple fanboys & girls. Whenever Jobs needs some sort of new internal organ, the patches will be activated and determine if the wearer (i.e. sheep) is a suitable donor. If yes, the patch will activate zombie mode and the wearer will go into a trance-like state and immediately beat a path to a remote hospital in Tennessee. The donor will not recall anything. After the harvesting procedure, performed by a Foxconn staff surgeon, the donor will wake up in a hotel bathtub full of ice with a note, pinned to the mirror, that reads “CALL 911 !!!!”.

    • Carmen

      You seem to know an awful lot about a person that you clearly don’t have a positive opinion of. Do you know what I do with my time? Just about anything but read up on shit that I don’t like.

      • Carnac

        “Do you know what I do with my time? ”

        In publie, bore people. In private, stick large vegetables in places where they don’t belong.

  • andy

    media server or a touch panel on a new mac pro

  • Bada$$

    Its a pile of rotten Apple Crap..righy ROro doucheeerrr?

  • Matthew Lembo

    It was most likely a test panel for the retina display… thats why it was c2009. It was a probably a sample panel demonstrating the pixel density.

  • http://alghienkad06.student.ipb.ac.id/ thea

    thanks for info

  • Chad.L.

    Could this possibly be the end of the scroll wheel on classic and nano ipods. that now they may just have a optical touch pad like a lot of the new android and blackberry’s?

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