A tablets wall mounted for an increasingly smart home. Apple is preparing to launch an intelligent home control device on the market, challenging other competing brands such as Amazon’s Echo Show and Google’s Nest Hub. According to the latest rumorsthe new Apple tablet will be available from 2025 and will be released in March.
Focus on the Smart Home
Apple’s new creation will be entirely dedicated to smart home control and has currently been renamed J490. It will be, as we said, a wall tablet. According to the information released so far, it will be a very compact device, with a screen the size of two iPhones joined together. There should also be a front camera that will allow users to make video calls.
We talked about wall-mounted tablets but the device can also be placed on a table, simply equip it with a dedicated base, which will also allow you to amplify theaudio outgoing.
For the success of this new tool, Apple is also thinking of a completely new operating system for the world of Smart Home. The system that will be introduced on the tablet will be called Pebble and will aim to make interactions easier. It should be a mix between the StandBy mode of the iPhone and that of the Apple Watch. With Pebble you will quickly have access to information on the weather and will be able to keep an eye on meetings and appointments scheduled for the various days. This is thanks to customizable widgets made available to users. Not only that. The tablet will be equipped with sensors capable of detecting the presence of someone in the house.
The future
Apple thus aims to make itself indispensable for smart home management.
The company aims to become the center of a domestic ecosystem can be combined with HomeKit, the software environment developed by Apple itself to control and communicate with different devices connected via apps. Using Siri, you can interact with locks, lights and many other controls remotely.