iTablet
Rumours have been rampant that Apple will launch a new device sometime soon. Initially, reports indicated that a netbook would be available sometime in 2010, then late 2009. More and more stories of a potential tablet have made the rounds with a report in today’s Financial Times also hinting that such a device is on its way.
According to the FT article
The new touch-sensitive device Apple is working on will have a screen that may be up to 10 inches diagonally. It will connect to the internet like the iPod Touch – probably without phone capability but with access to Apple’s online stores.
Whether this is all idle speculation or true fact remains to be seen. Personally, I’d be very interested in an Internet tablet that could connect using either HSDPA or wireless LAN. I imagine it to be a large iPod Touch with a screen better suited to Internet browsing and video playback. The 10″ screen hinted at in the FT article would be more than large enough and there is no need for the tablet to provide any additional functionality over and above what the iPod Touch can provide: connectivity to the Internet, ability to play back audio and video and the ability to load applications from the App Store. It would be the ideal solution to read books and, with the colour screen, huge competition for the Amazon Kindle.
Chances are very good that such a device, made by Apple, would be sold at an absolute premium. Even so, the CrunchPad with its anticipated reasonable price, would stand no chance. Apple has the ability to define a product genre and make products previously considered ridiculous indispensable to consumers.
Here’s hoping there is such a thing as the Apple tablet device…
via 
FT.com
