Apple 'Tablet PC' manufactured by Foxconn, shipping in Q1?
By Thomas Ricker 
posted October 7th 2009 5:43AM
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I'm using Stanza on iPod Touch, and have no problems reading at night when using night mode (white text on a black background, and you can adjust the size of the text, font, theme, etc.).
4 words.
OLED!!!
I concur!!!
I use my iPhone for reading New York Times articles for hours at a time, and have never noticed any eye strain or headaches.
So its confirmed. The biggest iFart device of all times. Well done, Steve.
But seriously - Q1 2010 and no leaked pictures?
Ill stick with my Iliad until this puppy will support handwriting and wont have crappy battery life.
I use a MacBook and an iPhone but I also have asus products, I tired of this crap. Only the fanboys will jump for joy,apple has been working on this thing so ling that by the time it comes out all the hardware specs will be outdated. This thing will only be useful to those idiots that work at the apple store so that they can ring you up. Want a better solution for a third of the price? Get a Dell mini 9/10 and run hackintosh on it with snowleopard.
lol. At least they might replace their Microsoft handsets at the Apple store. I like to poke fun at them when they ring up my order. Apparently, there is not an app for that...
"Only the fanboys will jump for joy" Apples profits say otherwise, this will be huge whatever it is. Outside of Apple TV, everything Apple puts out usually is. Like it or not the sales don't lie.
@XChrisX
If apple's profits are more though they sell a lot less computers than PCs and a lot less phones than Nokia, its coz iDiots like you are always ready to buy overpriced products.
Zzz... I'd be fairly excited to see how Apple executes a tablet or whatever; but good cripes am I tired of every tech blog and news site covering what's frankly still a piece of vaporware. I'm using the 4chan motto on this one, tits or GTFO.
It's either that or cover actual gadgets. I mean, why dig for news on a real project, like Courier, when you can shill-vertise for a rumor and continuously show some janky patent drawing of a douche fingering a tray?
rofl!
Sorry, but without e-ink, this would be total fail as a true e-reader. Although I know many friends that will get it and pay $1000+ and say its the best e-reader out there, because it has color... this could be a sweet multimedia device, but as an e-reader, I would not be buying it for that function, too hard on the eyes. But who knows what is going to happen, or if it will even be released, hoping for a color e-ink screen XD
ugh... the fanbois will sell both nuts to pay for an ipad even though it has absolutely no real world use outside of specific professions.
I'll say this. Battery life. If they can't even figure out how to get decent battery life on the iPhone, this brick of an iPad is going to be a nice looking book stand. And before ppl start chiming in about how the iphone has decent battery life, I DO NOT consider a 4-5 hour real-world use mobile device as being "decent". Heck, I can barely accept that the N97 only does 8-10 hours of heavy use; but at least it can just barely get me through the day.
This iPad is going to be one of those devices douches carry around to impress people but actually do absolutely nothing but watch videos on it..and only when it's plugged in the wall. The same way my friend brags about his iphone but hitches a ride on my N97's 3G and wifi connection.
You know, when someone tells me I should take a cyanide pill so that my soul can hitch a ride on the comet flying by the Earth, I won't actually do it. Some people on the other hand.... They'll pay for the pill. They'll even evangelise about the mineral quality of the comet.
I would not be completely surprised if the Apple Tablet is introduced with a focus on e-books. Disney just announced that it is going to start a subscription based e-book service. It will be inteactive and used color and sound, hence needing something a bit more robust or computer like than a Kindle. Steve Jobs is on the board of directors at Disney and is its single biggest share holder and directs the joint animation between Disney and Pixar. It seems like something tailor made for an Apple Tablet.
"If nothing else, at least the Taiwan-based rumor monger has quit calling the device a netbook as all these rumors coalesce around a Q1 launch."
So what is this gonna be an...E-reader? An oversized iPod Touch? an MID
It don't matter, I've got my eyes on the Courier. T.T
Depends on how long the battery life is. If it lasts as long as the Ipod touch, I am sold. Would need to get 6-7 hours of reading out of it for it to be worth it as a Ebook reader.
All the hype, and still, nothing
Please don't let this be another Duke Nukem Forever
How will the fanboys feel when they realize they could build their soon to be beloved tablet with parts from NewEgg?
didnt apple have a patent on a imac like device with a slot to put a tablet like device into it, with rumors of new imacs and the rumors of the pending tablet i was just thinking just maybe this could all be related to that.
Finally! Someone has pointed out the obvious. It IS NOT a netbook and it won't be competing with netbooks.
Yes, it will cost an arm & a leg and it's a niche market(just like the Kindle).
But, when the MP3 player 1st came out, it was a niche market too. with only 32MB of space, not too many people were willing to buy them.
It might be niche now, but Apple could definitely create a market that does not currently exist.
The reason e-book readers are a niche market is nobody has done one right.... yet.
I'd love to get a Kindle, but there are too many things I don't like about it. Fix some of those issues and add video/mp3 and games/apps.
Sounds like a winner to me, but we'll see.
"add video/mp3 and games/apps."
But then is it really an ebook reader? Doesn't that just make it yet another step closer to a netbook?
I disagree, what helped the MP3 market was that there was a need. People had mp3 collections already and watned a device to play them outside their computers, few people have ebooks and are faced with the problem of wanting to read them off something on their computer. The itunes store also helped with this need, as it gave people an easier way to get their music. However, people don't use books the same way they use audio. You cant read while jogging or driving, you can't read ten or 15 books during your commute, you don't typically like to read the same book a few times in a day or week. The ebook reader doesn't add all that much to the user experience of reading aside from a few key points. It's lighter, which is great for students who have to lug around heavy textbooks. It would work well for subscription based news or magazine reading, which is more comprable to downloading music than a novel is. But since most mags and nespapers are online anyway, a device that simply lets you browse the net will do just fine.
Which brings me to my final point, I want a nice interent tablet that is 200 bucks, lets me surf the web with flash, and has some small onboard memoery for storage. that's it. I don't care if it plays videos or music or even games as long as i can get onto youtube.
@ LE
Of course, if you want all that, why not get a convertible tablet with a full OS on it (even roll your own OS X if you really want), and then you have everything you need. There's a few convertibles out there now with 6 cell battery options.
What's the point in getting a giant iPod Touch that will undoubtedly
a) cost more
and
b) have less functionality
Whether Apple wants this long rumoured device to compete with netbooks or not, that IS the market it WILL be competing with, given the form factor.
I think if Apple markets this as a carry-around-the-house web-surfing device they could create a strong niche product. Especially if they cram the TV with ads of folks watching TV picking this thing up to Google something.
We currently use an Archos as a living-room web-surfer but I will gladly buy this if it has multi-touch and snappy web response.
In fact, in our house I think we have room for two web devices for the living room.
Who cares anymore? This news has turned into blatant fanboyism.
I love Foxconn.
They make killer gaming motherboards. Way under rated. Or over looked as it may be.
"has secured manufacturing rights to Apple's "tablet Pc"
" tablet pc" why in the world is called " tablet pc" this is not a " pc" dont give the credits to someone "else"
is called "apple tablet " or "good´s tablet" for the one´s less informed
Mac is also a personal computer(PC), i.e just like a windows based machine or a linux based machine.(Mac Pro may be used as a server but thats not the point here)
You are a disgrace even to apple fanbois......
Will it at least come with ethernet?
I no longer see the point of this device. There are already over a dozen such tablets in a variety of sizes that pretty much do everything an apple tablet would do at hundreds of dollars less than even the cheapest tablet from apple could be. The ONLY possible reasons I'm seeing why anyone would by an apple tablet over the many other options out there right now would be the apps and the user interface. (see: people will love it because it's like a giant ipod touch!)
Another day another mactab rumor. Oh how I enjoy them though.
If it's supposed to be an ebook device and doesn't have an e-ink screen, they better have something good up their sleeves. If it does have e-ink, I can't imagine very exciting games, if any, will be developed for this platform.
I just reject this form factor at this size. Ladies can stuff it in the purse, but if I am going to lug something around, this is inferior to the standard laptop/netbook. The screen is always vulnerable. Usage is always a two handed operation.
A small courier type gadget could get it, fold it, stick it in the jacket pocket.
Integrating the e-reader screen and a standard, full color screen is needed, for books, and battery life.
Will OLED make this device as easy on the eyes as an E-ink screen?? Will some please enlighten me on this?
Focus on e-book? Im out! 10" screen? too big.
I know some people will buy anything but its going to be a big arsed IPOD touch at a silly price. What is the frikkin point of it
I am supremely impressed.
Knowing only who will be making it and what size the screen will be, the elite among you have specc'd it, priced it, compared it, decried it, and buried it.
Where the hell were you 6 months before they introduced New Coke?
Who the fuck cares about DigiTimes rumors about the iTablet anymore?
Foxconn vs. Quanta, or Innolux Display vs. WinTek, who cares, just launch the damn thing and I'll see if I like then.
And engadget, this article is a sorry excuse to keep up the hype with the iTablet, I've never seen a product being so thoroughly covered before being even confirmed as a REAL product. C'mon.