>>>>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.
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>Follow-up on yesterday's reply during the announcement ---- yes, it is the iPad. And there is already some snickering about the name.
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>http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/27/apple.ipad.reaction/index.html?hpt=T2
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>"Will women send their husbands to the Apple store to buy iPads?"

I think its not a good idea. for a start 3g internet is not universal by a long way. I get it on one side of my house but not the other. There's a road I park in sometimes and I get it at the top of the road and not at the bottom. So your browsing experience will be compromised escpecially downloading larger images to fill the bigger screen..

Also I noticed yesterday that when demoing it Steve Jobs had his legs crossed and propped it up on one leg so the screen was oriented towards him. Try doing that on a commuter train or plane. Its too big.
If you want to type on it how do you do it. You can't lie it flat the screen would be hard to see. To be mobile you need something that fits in one hand.

I personally don't think they've thought this one through