Apple tablet pic 'leaked': this is the real one, we can feel it
By Paul Miller 
posted Aug 15th 2009 12:33PM
posted Aug 15th 2009 12:33PM
Update: Eagle-eyed tipster Terry points out that the "Welcome" graphic is an easy spot on Google Image Search, with that exact configuration and timing of converging letters from Leopard's intro video showing up in the very first result. Try it for yourself! Not a good sign, folks.
Update 2: Definitely faked.
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I'm excited.
What is the big deal with this thing? How will it be useful in ways that any other gadget we already have isn't?
Because it's made by Apple, and it will sell sell sell.
Your supposed to say "I jizzed my pants".
Now MikeZ you know good and well Apple can't get $100 for a turd...$85 maybe but that's tops.
@Poo_and_Wee
Just like apple tv
*wink*wink*
Real or not - It looks stupid. One tiny little button under a fat ugly screen.
does no one else see that the border looks A LOT like the one from the 1st gen ipod touch
@Poo_and_Wee
Because, obviously, Steve Jobs is using is mind control field to force us to buy Apple products...
Judging by the shadow amount and comparing it to Nokia e51's 12mm-thick body, I can easily say that this Apple tablet will come in a 16mm - 18mm thick body.
Looks pretty decent. If its thin enough, it will be the (pure)tablet that PC vendors have tried to make for years but have failed at every time.
However, if this doesn't run full OSX (which, in turn, will likely be Intel based and can be loaded with any other OS), this thing will go unwanted. A larger version of an iPod Touch is useless.
I personally hope they make one. We all know what happens to everyone else's game when Apple releases a product. They all seem to get their shit in gear.
For the right price and taking into account it satisfies the above, I would definitely get one.
Oh, and it needs to be capacitive (a given) and needs to support a stylus (ala HTC's recent patent). A tablet without handwriting recognition would be stupid. Jotting down notes using a pen is what I have always liked about PC based tablets. Not to mention, given this form factor (10" screen), it would be much easier to take something down via pen than via an on screen keyboard.
@Tankgunk
The force does work with weak minded peapple.
Wait, I mean people.
The second picture shows a beautifully designed, practical mobile device... and a fake Apple product.
personally I don't like tablets. The idea of walking around with a slab of plastic bigger than your face doesn't appeal to me, no matter who made it. Also I hardly ever bring my laptop to class anyways. I guess it might be useful to arts students but when I bring my lappy to class it's usually to play rollercoaster Tycoon.
which this thing probably couldn't do :(
This isn't it. It's too ugly. For one thing, there is too much margin space between where the LCD ends and the edge of the device.
I don't think there will be an Apple tablet but I do belive there will be a EBook reader with some extra features not found on other EBooks at the moment.
@ J S
Your an idiot. It's probably a prototype and not the finished product.
@Glenn, are you forgetting the early adopters? Apple certainly doesn't. They don't reward them much, but they remember them
This is not real its fake fake fake. One reason id one of them photos taken with a cell phone in the picture as well.. hmm if i was apple i would have a iPhone there not a freaking nokia haha!! I could be wrong but i dont see this being a apple product it does not have that apple style to it plus its just to quick to be the real deal. i am excited though!!!
It's going to have a stylus!
@tankgunk - it's called PR/Marketing dumbass
kam:
Most people call it bullshit though.
Looks like 1st gen iPod Touch that streched and wider. the only difference is this thing running leopard....
I don't trust it. You know why? The site has a Trojan on it (according to Norton Toolbar).
lol, Norton
lol, toolbar
lolololol, norton toolbar
Na, this is a fake.
The Home button does not belong in that place on a tablet, neither thumb can reach it.
There is too much gap between the edge and the screen.
It's plain ugly.
Apple can never commit such crimes.
@Glenn Blanchard
$85 tops, but $15 monthly on the subscription and $30 for a family plan.
Yes, I'm gone buy one! ;-)
no i am not going to idiotically say "FIRST!". but this looks faker than flying pigs.
Good job you didn't really. And I refute that other point, I hear all over the news that swine flew.
@Ethan
I see what you did there..
Wow. It's like this website is falling apart! All the trolls are coming out of the woodwork, and there are more idiotic comments than comments actually pertaining to the article.
Also, could we get back to actual reporting? I can't tell when I should be taking something seriously or not. This is, what, the 3rd "potential" Apple product sneak peek?
Unless this is just a slow week for technology news. In which case, carry on.
Welcome to the social (web).
OMG! A product made by Apple. Guess I should want this...
It's sarcasm folks!
No, really?
Imagine having to slide your finger across the whole
bottom just to unlock the device
You know you want one..or two! I really can't think of company at any point in history that's as awesome and cool as Apple is right now. Therefore, you'll need one just to be cool, like me!
I hope it does something revolutionary like run more than one application at a time. Also it doesn't look all that great but the iFairies will love it.
First thing to go on ebay to pay for this, My first born son.
Ha ha, nice one. But should I be more excited about this because it's Apple's shiny new product or the Zune HD because it's not Apple, but MS' shiny new product??
(I'm excited about both, not that I can afford either right now ;)
@Neha I can't wait til Apple invents multitasking!
@rippinhonda
I mean, that was great. Probably the best comment I've ever seen on Engadget,
+10 points
To I detect an increased amount of sarcasm in your voice, engadget?
I am detecting a small amount of fail in your post though.
@Sam
No, that's just gas from all the excitement.
I don't really understand how you are supposed to type on it. I guess you could hold it vertically and use the onscreen keyboard like that, but horizontally, I'm not sure. Maybe they'll split the keyboard down the middle and have one half on each side of the screen?
*if it were real, that is. This looks more like three first-gen iPod touches photoshopped together. I thought that the inclusion of the leopard intro screen was kind of clever though.
It's a little weird, but even more awkward to find this photo of a MacBook with the excact same welcome screen - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tannerld/1833520519/
No dude its easy, it even comes with a strap! See, what you do is hold it under your arm and play that mother like Jimi Hendrix!
God damn it! I'm about to start university. How can I afford to satisfy my Apple fix with such a sexy gadget?!
/sarcasm.
Thank GOD you made the "/sarcasm" comment or else I'd NEVER know it was sarcasm!
/sarcasm.
I can never tell whether you are being sarcastic when you are calling out someone for saying they are being sarcastic. It is a infinite loop.... the only question is, am I being sarcastic?
/sarcasm(?)
FUGLY...
from Apple??!!
Dios mio.
Even though its supposed to be a tablet the lack of buttons is disturbing.
It's got one button at least.
I do agree, personally I think it should have a rotate button.
To all Apple fanboy, accelerometer is not magic. I tried the active rotation on my Lenovo tablet, it does not work because I often hold computers in very different positions compare to a music player.
I suppose the difference is we don't have total control over such big size device and it pisses me off when I tried to read on my bed, it just keeps turning and turning no matter who I tried not to activate the auto rotation.
P.S. We can expect lots of drop and smashed screen reports if they build this using they same shitty shiny back, Lenovo rubberized bodies rocks!
It's the placement of the button that concerns me and makes me doubt the veracity of this "leak."
With a 10" screen, I'd want any button(s) near the right or left edges, not bottom-center.
I'd be sort of surprised if their new tablet had a home button. With Apple's recent push to go buttonless on the touchpads of new MacBooks I expect any new tablet from them would have a small power button and nothing else. I'd like to see the iPhone/iPod/iTablet implement gestures for home and volume control.
My biggest complaint about my iPod Touch is that you have to find the side buttons to control volume and you have to look at it to change tracks when playing music. Not as easy as my Nano to use blind. Gestures would feel more like an iPod and could be done without looking at it.
I'll buy an iTablet if they can keep it under $1000. I love my iPod Touch but I'd like a bigger screen. I hope they make it about the size of a paperback book. Still pocket/purse sized but big enough to use for real web browsing and working with documents.
Please no physical buttons. Gestures and on-screen buttons work much better. Why waste the real estate on buttons that will wear out, get dirty, and only be placed correctly in a certain orientation. Keep the device as simple as possible.
Support for case based buttons via the dock would be good though. Then you could buy a case that includes game buttons, keyboard, whatever and if they wear out just get a new case.
That's the right place for a button. It's the "just right" compromise.
If you are holding it landscape you generally hold by one edge while navigating with the other. It would need to be "middle" to accommodate right or left-handers equally. remember the Touch will generally work turned to all four sides.. few laptop tablets do that well for all programs. So held Portrait, you'd want the button about middle down the side which is right about where your thumb would land ... and again in the exact middle so it works the same for left or right-handers.
The edges are about correct too, the Touch has massive edges compared to even cheap cellphones. Part is probably to keep the panel much cheaper with touch wiring on top of LCD wiring, and part is probably to give room for your fingers to hold it properly and not block the screen.
it's exactly what I think they'd do, just a bigger Touch to allow better input and new types of programs on the go. Too bad it's probably fake.
I wonder what will be the 'revolutionary' features of it
nothing i guess, but hey, if it's gonna be less than $500...i'm buying it for sure !
Not being overpriced, for a change?
Keep em coming! Definitely loving all these so called iPADs lol!
It actually projects a holographic keyboard into the air, and you type on that. Also, there is a light saber.
light saber you say? sign me up!
Don't forget, It can also stream audio to an airport express. Now you can hear the fart apps in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound!
...with a noticeable lag
Here here to the noticeable lag
Video is in the same position on both photographs.
(Unless the two photographs are the same, just cropped, I'm unsure)
is that the CTRL+ALT+DEL button in the center?
Ooops, It's A MAC
So then it would be an Option-Command-esc button then ;)
Never seen a power button before, mate?
What is force quit for, anyway?
Or a control-option-command-eject for instant shut-down.
@uclat0mmy I have owned a mac for 3 years and never knew that.
/fail
that looks like an iphone turned choade.... really..
what kind of designer would put the home button in between the screen and the bevel edge. EPIC FAIL at faking it.
Such a stupid idea to put it at the base, in the middle. How inconvenient! You should put it on the right-hand side so left-handed users can't use it, or at the top, so you have to stretch.
Jonathan Ive
I could probably do a better fake. And if that ain't fake it's anyway ugly as hell.
Woz designed this while dating Kathy Griffin. Blame her! ;)
Approaching an election here in the UK, we're entering what's known as 'silly season.' It seems one needs to approach tech news with a similar wariness as an Apple conference approaches.
Lets see... Black rectagular plastic object... Single button with white square icon... zzzzzzzzzzz... oh! yup that's apple's signature "design".
What can this thing do that my $300 netbook won't?
Generate chatter despite not being real...?
Cost you 700+
Be used as a top for kids to play with? While still being able to see the pretty colors of the screen...
We don't know. Nobody knows. It hasn't been released. It may never be released. Don't ask stupid question about product that does not exist.
Get you laid. You know, like owning an iPhone does
touch screen!
Looks kinda legit, but is that the leopard intro on the screen?
I see many many things wrong in this picture. I hope some of you see it as well...
You mean like the crooked Home button? The Gen 1 iPod Touch bezel?
Yeah.... I do see several things wrong.... But I'll let you go ahead and point them out for the people that don't.
That looks very much like the Leopard intro video. Why would a new Apple product be running Leopard when Snow-Leopard is coming out within weeks?
If this proves to be the real thing I'll be very surprised.
How low can you stoop engadget? Increase site traffic by posting fake news + related to apple to attract the swarm of apple lovers and bashers. Can you lay off smoking steve's pole please?
Stop posting useless apple news.