iPad

[WiteWulf]

Hmmm...don't care about the name much, just show me the hardware!

[VNVObit]

Hmmm...don't care about the name much, just show me the hardware!

seconded

but how about iSlate (you can tell I don't work in marketing)

[tufty]

uWantIt

that said,

iWantIt

[Deckard]

If it wasn't for the possible confusion with their other brand "iPad" would be an absolute certainty in my book.

[Deckard]

And slowly the pieces come together -

From 9 to 5 Mac

MacRumors today reports that Pixel Qi's screens would make a great match for the rumored Apple tablet. Indeed, 10.1 inches and the ability to display eInk-like text in full sunlight as well as full color video -- and at the same time using a fraction of the energy could make Apple's tablet a real "game changer". This isn't the first time the two companies have been seen together, however. Many reports from 2008 and this year have wondered the same question: Are apple and Pixel Qi working together on the Tablet?
Beyond the questions and the obvious excitement at the technology - which would seem to be a perfect fit, we've found some very interesting additional connections between Apple and Pixel Qi that aren't as anecdotal.
Pixel Qi's VP of Engineering is a November 2008 transfer from Apple. What did he work on? He "engineered new generation display electronics for the iPhone and other devices". His official title was Principal Driver Architect - Displays at Apple Inc. This is a huge connection. It is hard to imagine a person as tapped into Apple's tablet plans as this guy.
Dr. Carlin Vieri - VP of Engineering
Carlin Vieri joined Pixel Qi from Apple Computer where he engineered new generation display electronics for the iPhone and other devices. Previously he pioneered liquid crystal on silicon electronics backplanes, drive schemes and interfaces with the MicroDisplay Corporation...
Pixel Qi is currently building a display for a multi-touch tablet. Which tablet? We're not sure, but here's what they say:

Our first production batch of screens will be ready shortly. We will be ramping production scale over Q1 2010. We can now announce that the first units are going into specialized tablet devices with multi-touch. Increasingly these screens will be super-slim, but some customers prefer the standard thickness.

Also, the Pixel Qi displays were originally due in Q3 of 2009. The delay in the delivery of these displays would explain the delay of the tablet which was originally forecasted to be delivered in late 2009.
We will be sampling our 10″ screens this spring and plan to be in high volume mass production this summer. These screens have an epaper state that rivals the best epaper on the market today. What’s different: unlike the other epaper products where one must wait a second or so to change the screen – we provide video rate refresh. Also, while we have a high resolution paper-white black and white, we also provide, in the same screen fully saturated color fidelity – the same as a standard laptop screen – same color, contrast resolution, field of view etc

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[Misfit]

I hope you are right. That would be great!

[WiteWulf]

Sounds tasty as hell!

I'm hopefully gonna have ~£800 of insurance money to spend sometime in January on a new laptop. I'm soooo tempted to wait for one of these if they ever arrive.

[benedictw]

Thats awesome. If thats in the tablet then its at the top of my tech drool list.

[WiteWulf]

Oh, and Toshiba announced 64GB of flash on a single chip today. That's some serious storage for Apple portable devices...

[Deckard]

Save your Xmas money kiddies - January 26th 2010 - new decade, new form

The Financial Times reports that it has received word that Apple has scheduled a special media event for Tuesday, January 26th in San Francisco. The event will reportedly be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, site of the company's music-focused events held each fall in recent years.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=839077

Anything like this and count me in
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[teamonkey]

Apart from the useless "shake to shuffle" feature there's no reason for that to be a touchscreen app.

[RiK]

Apart from the useless "shake to shuffle" feature there's no reason for that to be a touchscreen app.

Except for the fact it's a tablet and therefore doesn't have a mouse.

[teamonkey]

Apart from the useless "shake to shuffle" feature there's no reason for that to be a touchscreen app.

Except for the fact it's a tablet and therefore doesn't have a mouse.

The application is slick, yes, but why would Ikea write an application like that specifically for a tablet when it would work just as well with a mouse on any PC or Mac? Although it's flashy it would actually be harder to use than Ikea's current website.

Also, no reflection on the main part of the screen (you can see what I mean when he tilts it) and a bad hand shadow. The UI is ugly and inconsistent. It's a fake video by a design student.

[VNVObit]

I'm looking forward to seeing the final realised piece of kit.

[adam]

as long as these are comfortable to use they might be much better than mice or trackpads for people with rsi