AppleInsider: Apple tablet finally coming next year

Don't you need a third arm to operate this thing when you're trying to hold it?
the touch is already a challenge...

Apple Tablet may be launched this Christmas or possibly as early as September. I hope this will be another great rally for apple earnings. I will buy one of this for sure. The iphone started to be too little to stay all the day looking things. I am a great fan of apple product so started collecting all the information (more than 200 sites) about Apple Tablet(News, Videos, Pics, Pre reviews, Rumors etc.,). If you are interested take a look at the below link
http://markthispage.blogspot.com/2009/07/apple-tablet-large-iphone-or-ipod-touch.html

it'll be called the iPad. Or the iTouch. Or the iTouch Pro.

*IF* Apple chooses to do this, it won't be anything resembling a netbook except in outer dimensions. Netbooks are, for the most part, under-powered, low value, secondary computers with a remarkably small market share. Just because a vocal group of nerdlings wants them doesn't mean that there will be one. And I'm serious, it will NOT be what you are expecting.

Now I'll be able to use something other than my iPhone or MacBook Pro to "sh*t surf"
C'mon Apple, hurry up so my credit card and I can help stimulate the economy!

*polishes off credit card*

YES!

I has so longed for a touch screen computer with good handwriting recognition about the size of a clipboard. I went to college with the dream that such a device will replace my binders. School has finished now, but the dream lives on, in the form of an all purpose notepad for work.

If Apple make the device not require a data plan from a wireless carrier, I will be camping for one!

I was really hoping for a device with roughly four times the screen real estate of an iPhone, which translates into somewhere around a six-seven-inch diagonal.

That would make a device that's pocketable (in a coat or jacket pocket), but not so big that you'd need a backpack to carry it. It would also make a good 'tween device for when you need more than your iPhone, but don't want to carry that 15" MacBook Pro. Make it too large (and 10" is too large) and you might as well carry a full-fledged notebook and be done with it.

A six-inch screen would be a near perfect ebook reader for most texts, a great TV and movie media device, and a killer portable game machine. Email and web browsing, already fairly good on the iPhone, would be more than adequate when done on a high-resolution screen 4x the size.

A smaller device means less weight, and a smaller screen translates into better battery life. A good media player/game pad needs at least eight hours running at full tilt, with, say, a good 12-16 hours when being used as a mere ebook reader/web browser.

Come on Apple, I want a pad, not a tablet.

This exact article has been posted every year for five years. It's gotten to the point that it seems more likely to me that the tablet will come out when you people finally give up and forget about it.

An iPod Touch on steroids? Hopefully not. I want the full Mac OS X experience, thank you.