Tablet to be announced before January 19, selling in May or June?

Seth Weintraub
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September 29, 2009
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iLounge has the latest Apple tablet rumors today.  Nothing too out of the ordinary except they've said it will be announced on or before January 19th, 2010 (why that date? - what's so special about it?) and it should ship in the May-June timeframe.  This obviously correlates to the iPhone announcement/hype/launch timeframe in 2007.

The similarities don't end there.  Apple's tablet configs are said to be "two different variations: one with 3G networking capabilities, and one without 3G networking capabilities. Think of the 3G version as a bigscreen iPhone 3GS, and the non-3G version as a bigscreen iPod touch." 

They go on to speculate that the screen resolution will be 720P and its primary purpose will be media absorption (ebooks, music, movies, gaming, etc.)

"It is designed to expand the iPhone and iPod touch media concept to its next potential level: as a slate-like replacement for books and magazines, plus all of the media, gaming, app, and web functionality of the iPhone and iPod touch.

It is not meant to compete with netbooks. It’s an iPhone OS media player and light communication device."

Damn.

Comments (7)

Tom (not verified) | September 29, 2009 - 8:17am

2010. I'd imagine it might be a FCC thing?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 29, 2009 - 10:09am

June time frame? That is iPhone territory. Tablet + iPhone combo, one is docking inside the other?

Sort of " ARM in ARM"

iMac + Docking

MacBook in colors

Mini Good+ Better+Best, Prosumer( Xeon?) ,in black!

One can wish.

One thing for sure Mr Jobs said Apple has to have gear that people can afford in this depression.

J972 (not verified) | September 29, 2009 - 12:01pm

A tablet without MacOSX is of no interest at all. Period.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 29, 2009 - 1:11pm

im totally disappointed in apple now. why in the world do we need another iphone with a bigger screen? does that mean we need to purchase another contract with another wireless provider just for this 10inch tablet?
How in the world is apple going to compete with this crappy ipad with an iphone os that does the almost the exact same thing an iphone does? I hope I dont resort to Microsoft and their so called "booklet"...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 29, 2009 - 3:40pm

you wrote: "does that mean we need to purchase another contract with another wireless provider just for this 10inch tablet?"

did you read the article? "...one with 3G networking capabilities, and one without 3G networking capabilities..."

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 29, 2009 - 1:12pm

I already have a iPhone, I don't need a bigger one that I can't put in my pocket.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 29, 2009 - 1:21pm

I really want an OSX tablet with great batter life and decent performance for under $1,000. As I've followed the iPad rumors I've been forced the realization that the technology doesn't exist for that yet.

I love my iPhone but just scaling it won't do it for me, but I asked myself why? It's not because I dream of composing legal pleadings on the couch or annotating westlaw searches at the park. I just need a mobile data center that connects to things. My iPhone only syncs notes! For anything else I have to sync each application with its desktop counterpart over wifi. So I realized that I would go for the iPad IF I could pass my content to applications in way that wasn't locked down to the sync. I need a file system and concurrent applications. I need a seemless-MobileMe-like link from my applications to my iPad.

Forget the media player. I'll take a tablet with iPhone OS with great batter life, decent performance AND seemless syncing.