Apple Tablet Archive

  • Apple’s January 27 event invites just hit inboxes all over the world

    Apple’s January 27 event invites just hit inboxes all over the world

    Huzzahs and alarums! Apple’s January 27 event has just been announced to tech journos all over the world with a new invite reading “Come see our latest creation” hitting inboxes left and right. The event will happen on January 27 at 10am PST. More as we get it. You can read all about our iSlate obsession [...]

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  • Apple tablet ‘confirmed’ by France Télécom

    Apple tablet ‘confirmed’ by France Télécom

    It sure does seem that the Apple tablet has been confirmed several times in the past few months. Well, here we go again! As some of you have already read on TechCrunch, a France Télécom/Orange executive has “confirmed” the existence of Apple’s highly anticipated tablet computer during a broadcast interview. Here’s hoping Apple releases the tablet as soon as possible so we can all move on with our lives.

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  • The Apple Tablet: Will It Be Called iSlate, iGuide, Or Something Else?

    The Apple Tablet: Will It Be Called iSlate, iGuide, Or Something Else?

    After discovering that Apple had registered iSlate.com in late 2006 (we dug a little deeper and found trademarks had been filed for 'ISLATE' in both the United States and Europe by a company that was most likely a dummy corporation set up by Apple), MacRumors has now discovered another possible name for the upcoming Apple tablet. MacRumors bases its report on the filing for a US trademark for 'IGUIDE' by another Delaware-registered company called iGuide Media LLC, which can be linked to Cupertino by means of signatures on the documents coming from Apple's Senior Trademark Specialist, Regina Porter. Let's dig a little deeper, once again.

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  • Rumor: John Biggs is making the Apple Tablet in his basement

    Rumor: John Biggs is making the Apple Tablet in his basement

    Hot news, everyone. I just received word from a reliable source deep within the confines of a Chinese brothel, that that our own John Biggs is making a 9.789-inch Apple Tablet in his basement. Now, you wouldn't know that this random house in a quiet Brooklyn neighborhood is actually the home of a Apple design genius, but that's what our source says, so it must be true. And all those random reports about Innolux and Cheng Uei Precision producing the Apple slate are just unfounded Internet rumors and should be ignored as such. What's behind the jump here is the truth.

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  • Apple planning event for January, with high-res iPhone or small-sized tablet in tow? Maybe just hanging out?

    Apple planning event for January, with high-res iPhone or small-sized tablet in tow? Maybe just hanging out?

    Breaking news, everybody: Apple's working on some stuff. The rumors are flying in all directions today, starting out fairly innocently with word from the oft-innacurate DigiTimes of an iPhone-destined 5 megapixel camera sensor. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster piled on with an investor note saying they're giving an Apple January event a 75% chance of happening, and the tablet is squarely at 50 / 50. The most interesting word, however, comes out of the Silicon Alley Insider, who is quoting a "plugged-in source in the mobile industry" who says that Apple is working with some select app makers on prepping high-res apps to demo on a "new, larger mobile device." The device would be shown in January but not available at that time -- presumably in wait for these redesigned apps to mature (at WWDC, perhaps?). While that rumor is being piled in with the ever-present tablet hubbub, if we were to read between the lines we'd say it sounds more like a higher-resolution iPhone in the style of Google's Nexus one or Motorola's Droid -- both of which are making the iPhone's 320 x 480 screen look a tad archaic. Certainly more likely than Apple releasing "several tablets" to match up with all the disparate rumors we've seen of the 7-inch / 9-inch / 10-inch unicorn device.

    Apple planning event for January, with high-res iPhone or small-sized tablet in tow? Maybe just hanging out? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Analyst noise: Apple tablet in March for $1k, publishers on-board, Verizon iPhone coming too

    Analyst noise: Apple tablet in March for $1k, publishers on-board, Verizon iPhone coming too

    If you've been following mainstream news today, then it's likely you've seen the story doing the rounds on new Apple tablet rumors, spurred by a note sent to clients from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner. Never heard of him? That's not surprising, since he has no real connection to Apple, and his job mainly consists of telling people how to move their money around -- a Master of the Universe gear-cranker, you might say. Anyhow, Yair is sure that Apple will be releasing its 10.1-inch, multitouch tablet around March or April, with a ramp-up on production sometime in February. He also notes that the device will sell for $1,000 (so far we've heard rumored price points from $699 all the way up to $2,000), but ultimately Reiner seems most concerned with how it will impact Amazon, the Kindle, and book and media publishers.

    According to the note, Apple has been in talks with publishers concerning a "very attractive proposal" in which the company will split revenue with publishing houses 70 / 30, as they do with iTunes and App Store sales (just as we speculated in our post on the Time Inc. digimag). What's most disconcerting about the report is that it seems more interested in disrupting or dismissing what Amazon is doing (particularly noteworthy as the company is in the midst of its biggest season for Kindle sales ever). When financial analysts start squawking in this manner, we like to approach with caution. As of right now, we have zero solid evidence that Apple is even producing a tablet, let alone ready to drop one for a G come March. We have heard plenty of other rumors that corroborate much of this, but if the above is the plan, you can expect a big reveal from Cupertino around the time of Macworld or CES, so you won't have to wait long to know the truth. For now, keep your BS detectors set to "stun."

    P.S.: See what we mean? Now a Piper Jaffray analyst is 70 percent certain (70 percent!) that Apple will introduce an iPhone for Verizon in 2010. Hold onto your hats folks, we've only just begun.

    Analyst noise: Apple tablet in March for $1k, publishers on-board, Verizon iPhone coming too originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Foxconn to make and ship Apple tablet PC, says boy who cried wolf

    Foxconn to make and ship Apple tablet PC, says boy who cried wolf

    Blah, blah, blah. Apple tablet to come from here. Apple tablet going there. Apple tablet coming soon on the backs of unicorns. All the rumors are played out, but yet here's another one, stating that sure 'nuff, the fabled Apple tablet is coming in the first quarter of 2010. We here go again.

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  • Apple brings back Newton designer, defines irony

    Apple brings back Newton designer, defines irony

    That fact that Apple has rehired Michael Tchao, one of the original Newton developers, is likely to stir up stories and posts about the Apple tablet. But the man has had a storied past in the CE field and Apple might have brought him back on board after a 15 year hiatus just because of his impressive resume. Or they need help on the Apple tablet marketing. Actually, that's probably exactly why Apple needs him back.

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  • Rumor: Apple tablet to run full OS X 10.5? Three screen sizes, too?

    Rumor: Apple tablet to run full OS X 10.5? Three screen sizes, too?

    tabletAnd here we have yet another Apple tablet rumor to be bandied about all the livelong day. According to Gizmodo, "a source that has always been 100% reliable" says that Apple may be working on 13- and 15-inch tablets (aside from just the rumored 10-inch one) and that one of those tablets was seen running a full-fledged version of OS X 10.5.

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  • Yeah, we get it: The new iPods will have cameras

    Yeah, we get it: The new iPods will have cameras

    First we break the news then everyone and their dog confirms it again and again and again. Yes. The new iPods will have cameras. Straight up. They will look like the old iPods, only with cameras.Case makers, inexplicably, know what’s up. Oh, and that tablet? Not coming until 2010. Sorry.

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