The Huffington Post has seen the iTablet... not!

Gerald Sinden of the Huffington Post writes, with tongue firmly in cheek, that he was given the first production model of the iTablet and 24 hours to play with it. According to his post, it's gesture based and sports a 10" screen along with being a phone, albeit a large one. And foam corners. To prevent people from inadvertently blacking their eyes when they try to use it as a phone. Mmm-hmm. Really.

There will be two cameras in it, and an option to mount it on the dashboard of your car when one camera will serve as a back-up camera, an option present in many high end automotive GPS systems. And it will come with apps to show you what your new haircut will look like. Insert giggle sound effect here.

Books will be sold by the chapter instead of by the book, which sounds odd to me but does seem to go along with the iTunes concept of buying individual TV episodes or songs. And it's at least consistent with Apple doing its best to extract maximum profits out of every device sold.

~~My first and primary thought is that T~~ The article is a hoax. The only reason I'm telling you about it is that it came from the Huffington Post which, in my experience, doesn't print many rumors and their fact checking has usually been excellent. Also their humor is a little bit... arch.

~~However, this does seem HIGHLY suspect. Why would Apple give the Huff Post one and no tech venues? And a 10" phone? Really?~~ It's beyond suspect. It's just not all that funny.

Take a gander at Mr. Sinden's post and tell us what you think. ~~Could this be real?~~ No. The consensus of the TUAW crowd around the water cooler says it's somewhere between parody and satire.

Thanks to Stuart Carnie for sending this in.

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andreblack

It's always odd to me when people use terms like iTablet and iPad in these rumors. Wouldn't it be something like MacBook Touch or iPod Read depending on what OS was used? It seems unlikely to me that Apple would make something unproven like that an entirely new product line without a clear name that tells consumers where it's meant to fit in the digital lifestyle.

November 25 2009 at 10:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Uncle Bernie

anybody who reads that far left rag is an idiot.

November 22 2009 at 5:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

I've seen the Apple tablet!
http://bit.ly/KeT5

If that's too big for you, here is a smaller version!
http://bit.ly/TCqw

November 22 2009 at 5:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Howie Isaacks

Anything that comes from Huffington Post is automatically thrown in the trash by me.

November 22 2009 at 1:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SiLeNt

TUAW you guys are idiots. It's called satire. You're taking it all seriously like... "is it a hoax?" you guys crack me up.

November 22 2009 at 12:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

zendiz

This shows why most people cannot out-think apple designers.

Just to set an example look at the picture.

The brilliance in Apple design, it's there, you just don't see it. Or it's very much NOT that noticable. IMHO when they release a panel, be sure it's gonna be not thicker then Macbook Air, an 99,9% glass with aluminium backplate/border.
Maybe ports (SD Card, USB or whatsoever), but i think no. Only wifi and BT (maybe some infrared). That sounds more like Apple

November 22 2009 at 11:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PlanetaryGear

MAHAHAH! did you just say that the huffington post's fact checking is excellent and they dont print many rumors? You obviously haven't read anything in the science and medicine tract... Since I discovered how wacky that was I apply the same skepticism to everything I read there.

November 22 2009 at 9:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Hilbert

I'd rather use a Windows ME PC than read the Huffington [Com]Post.

November 22 2009 at 8:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rudy

its not even funny...

November 22 2009 at 6:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alex Johnson

"not"...ahh is there any fresher form of comedy than a 25 year old SNL joke that my 60 year old mother used to quote?

Hilarious indeed. NOT!

November 22 2009 at 3:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply