>>>I think we will hear something significant about this tomorrow. The thing might be based on the iPhone operating system. I assume it will be called the iTablet...
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>>>We shall see - rumors rumors for weeks now...
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>>I heard about the announcement on the local news this morning...either a lot of hype or there will be an itablet, ipad (didn't Apple try to get a trademark for "ipad" recently?), i?
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>It might end up being iPad - that seems to be another popular rumor.
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>Apple might really have something slick here if the device works well. It will probably be much thiner than it's windows-based counterpart tablets and with the popularity of the iPhone I bet they end up selling a zillion of them.

Follow-up on yesterday's reply during the announcement ---- yes, it is the iPad. And there is already some snickering about the name.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/27/apple.ipad.reaction/index.html?hpt=T2

"Will women send their husbands to the Apple store to buy iPads?"