Foxconn building the fabled Apple tablet for Q1 2010 release?

Dave said 10:42PM on 10-07-2009
" The iPhone instantly turns on"

Umm, no it doesn't. Depending on what you install it can take over 30 seconds...sorry.

Anyone ever thought that Apple might just not sell this at the "Apple Tax" range of $699 or so? What if we see something in the range of $199 to $299? The only reason why I say this is because PA Semi is in house, and they might not just manufacture chips...Cheap printable AMOLED screens anyone? --xobmo

Commenters seem a little myopic here. This should be a nice, big iPhone (with some better facility for multitasking). Add a bluetooth headset and a bluetooth keyboard and you've got something easily worth twice the cost of a netbook.

Cool concept. And i do like that it has exceptional battery life. I like Ipods.

A 10 inch form factor is too large for a phone. The main drawcard is touch gestures but that does not allow for precision as your finger will obscure the work. Everything else it will be fantastic for. Games, Browser, email, ebook reader etc. The elephant in the room though... is whether or not it will be a closed device that will only run signed apps that Apple allow. It NEEDS to run OS X. Anything less will DOOM it to failure.

please tell me that no one actually believes that the picture at the beginning of the article is even slightly realistic. Mac OS X would not be suitable for touchscreen use.

i won't read for long periods of time on a computer screen, it's too much strain on the eyes. Marketing something as an e-book that doesn't use e-ink (or equivalent) to me isn't an e-book reader - It's supposed to mimic the look of writing on a page, a computer screen does not.

I would love a kindle, but I don't see the savings on the book end to justify it.

Any one here ever hear about the iRex Digital Reader 1000 S?

http://www.iliadreader.co.uk/product.digital_reader_1000s.htm

This thing retails for £600 ($957) and people actually buy these. I actually own (and use everyday) a Sony PRS-505, but would love the iRex or even the Kindle DX, but what I have really really been waiting for…

...is an Apple Tablet.

While I'm not excited about an iPhone-like OS made large on a tablet scale, I am interested in the tablet idea as a general concept. If you view a possible tablet as just another product in the Apple line that's filling a gap that isn't big enough to need filling, I'd agree. I think it's possible though that a device of this sort could serve less as a gap-filler and more as a stepping stone to a more evolutionary/revolutionary set of devices, a transitional product, for a new human-computer interface approach, built off of experiences they've gained with their forays into multi-touch (iphone, trackpad, upcoming rumored mouse, etc.), an approach that moves us away from keyboards and mice and more towards direct interaction haptics devices. I'd be interested in that future, even if it still required a keyboard and mouse occasionally.

Not a chance in the world that this will be "just" an Ebook reader..
More like a net book, ebook reader, communication device..Probably a OS somewhere between SL and the IPhone..
There just isn't enough "pent up" demand for a "plain" e-book reader, but, there is tremendous demand for an Apple Net book...