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Apple officially sent out invitations Monday for its expected Jan. 27 event in San Francisco, where it is anticipated the company will introduce its new touchscreen tablet device.
According to Engadget the invitation was sent out Monday with the tagline: “Come see our latest creation.” The included graphic has the Apple logo surrounded by colorful paint splatters. The event is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Pacific time.

Earlier this month, Digital Daily first reported the final Wednesday, Jan. 27 date. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. That followed an earlier report that Apple had booked the stage at the center for multiple days that week.

Apple is expected to make a major product announcement at the event, which most believe will be its long-rumored tablet device. Last July, AppleInsider first reported that the multi-touch, 10-inch successor to the Newton would arrive in early 2010.

In December, select iPhone developers were allegedly asked to prepare full-screen demos of their software for a product unveiling. It has been suggested that developers are working with a new version of the iPhone OS that allows software to be scaled to multiple screen sizes.

Various reports, including one from The Wall Street Journal, have said that though next week’s event will serve as an official unveiling of the tablet, it will not be made available for sale until later this year. Sources have said that date would likely be around March. (apple insider)
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Rumors surrounding the apple tablet have only focused on the looks and not too much of the functionality of the tablet. Text input for the tablet could make or break this device. This has been a problem for apple and other companies for quit a while. CES was filled with tablet devices that couldn’t get it quite right. So the question how do you create text with out a keyboard?

People have been typing without physical keyboards for years now, and this is largely Apple’s doing. One of the major selling points for the iPhone was the onscreen keyboard. Apple was one of the first companies to make onscreen typing bearable.

Now bringing this technology to the Apple tablet, some say could be a big mistake. There were many different tablets at CES nearly all ha d a traditional onscreen keyboards. One tablet stood out however. The android 2.0 keyboard, which is aesthetically different but functionally almost identical to iPhone OSes. The onscreen keyboard as we know it doesn’t scale gracefully, and unless Apple wants their tablet to be completely useless (our sources say they don’t) they’re going to have to figure this out. So what are Apple’s options?

Apple has had its share of mistakes in the past; however putting an onscreen keyboard could be one of those mistakes. Style, thumb-actuated onscreen keyboards work on screens up to about five inches, with the 4.3-inch-screened HTC Touch HD2’s keyboard straining even the most unsettlingly long thumbs. But to assume that this won’t work is to assume that the tablet is to be held a certain way, with hands at four and eight o-clock, more or less like a touchscreen phone in landscape mode.

A single, iPhone-esque keyboard really shouldn’t be the primary input method. It could be a supplementary input method, but to have two separate text input mechanisms seems messy. Messy doesn’t do to well with apple.

Another solution this problem could be voice control. Apple has been working on perfecting this technology since it introduced spoken interface for the OS X. as it stands the iPhone’s voice control speech recognition is much more accurate, and though there are quite a few customization options, it’s really just a command system, not a full text input system. Apple is very proud of the progress they have made on the Voice Control for the iPhone, and they haven’t removed voice commands from OS X in over five years. However using this type of system to control every function of the new tablet is highly unlikely.

The safest bet for Apple, in handling the input text problem is to come up with some sort of new onscreen keyboard. Any onscreen keyboard would have to be different than the iPhone’s somehow, but to say that Apple’s tablet will have a new style of keyboard is to say that it will have pretty much any kind of onscreen keyboard that is unlike the iPhone’s. Having a split onscreen keyboard isn’t new but it also isn’t something we see to often.

The best alternative is an actual, available product called DialKeys. Co-opted by Microsoft a few years ago, this tech, which splits the keyboard into two crescent-shaped virtual keyboards, shipped with a handful of touchscreen UMPCs, a category of devices that died off before it had the time to truly solve the onscreen keyboard problem. It wasn’t very good. But the concept had potential, maybe.

The biggest problem Apple has to face in the text input. There is no clear answer what route Apple will take. Apple has a way of taking existing technology and perfecting it. It seems, for know, the split onscreen keyboard is the best solution.

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There is an enormous amount of hype about the Apple tablet / iTablet computer. We still have no confirmation if it even exists. However, At this point in the speculation with the numerous “leaked” specs and mock photos the questions is no longer whether the Tablet is real or fake, it’s a question of when.

How will people review this new device? I think it would be safe to say there will be a wide range reviews ranging from love it to hate it. Some will say the soon to be announced apple tablet could be the gadget that fills the void between too small smartphone and to large laptop. It could also be a turning point that makes a difference in how we live and work. Since computers have been around we have been trying to make them smaller, faster, lighter, and more useful to the consumer. We will always have the skeptics that may see no point in having such a device.

What type of features would the new apple tablet need to get good reviews and ratings among the consumers? If Apple does indeed release a tablet running iPhone 3.0 many would be highly disappointed. Most cannot fathom paying what will undoubtedly be a high price for a larger screen. Reports indicating that the upcoming tablet computer will come dressed in a polished aluminum casing, cementing its relationship to the Apple MacBook lineup.

What exactly is the new apple Tablet / iTablet?

rumors has the apple tablet pegged at having a 10 inch touch screen designed to bridge the gap between the iPhone/iPod and a MacBook. Apple normally has an eye for innovation and ground breaking technology. The idea of falling in line by simply producing an expensive “Apple exclusive netbook” may or may not have the same effect as the iPod and iPhone. Many Silicon Valley insiders view this as Apple trying to play catch up to the current market rather than attempting to create an entirely new product as they have done in the past.

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There is an enormous amount of hype about the Apple tablet computer. Is it possible the new apple tablet could change how we live and compute? Could there be more this tablet than hype and rumors? There is more to this new tablet than people think. Looking at the tablet with the perspective, the tablet could be the next step in the evolutionary chain of computing in our society. It could also be a turning point that makes a difference in how we live and work. Since computers have been around we have been trying to make them smaller, faster, lighter, and more useful to the consumer.

The technology industry hit high gear in the 70’s, when personal computers hit the desktops. Then another 20 years down the road when the laptop was introduced, making computers portable to the computing mix. Since the time of computers come around computers gone from the size of rooms to being able to fit inside of a brief case. Today most of us find it hard to get by without computers. They are in our everyday lives from designing websites to looking up direction to a new restaurant, and everything in between.

When smartphones hit the streets, suddenly we were carrying a real computer, able to run a wide range of applications (apps) and expanding different possibilities of communicating with a device not much lager than the average calculator. However the smartphones do have some drawbacks. The smartphone has a small touchscreen, and there isn’t much viewing area. Until we find better methods of typing and viewing characters we are going to have to use larger gadgets than the smartphone but smaller than the laptop.

The soon to be announced apple tablet could be the gadget that fills the void between to small smartphone and to large laptop. The larger size will allow apple to add more hardware which will allow better computing and give users more touchscreen on which to type and view. With these feature it is easy to see that this gadget is the middle of the road device that combines better portability than the laptop and better computing than the smartphones. As the methods of input and output become available and as miniaturization continues on its relentless path, we will see the increase in demand for a device similar in size to the iphone.

The apple tablet is just another step, to world were all our computing needs are on a portable device. Every aspect of our lives will be on some sort of mobile device, from grocery shopping to our business lives. The age of computing has change drastically. We have gone from computers the size of rooms to the size of calculators. Someday desktops and laptops will be a thing of the past. We will look back and think of a desktop as a dinosaur, Like DOS is to OS-X
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