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A new report Monday from FoxNews.com cites an anonymous source to claim Apple will introduce its tablet, “iPhone 4″ and iLife 2010 at next week’s event. Reports say Apple will be introducing three new products. Unfortunately iPhone hardware will not be introduced. Reports also say iphone OS 4.0 will be part of the event.

“I spoke to a source at Apple this morning, before the invite hit my inbox, who said the event would likely focus on three projects: The tablet device, iPhone 4, and a new round of iLife 2010 software,” Morris wrote. “While we won’t see new iPhone hardware just yet, we will see the next-generation software.” (Clayton Morris)

Don’t get your hopes up to high; Apple has been known to change its mind about what products to introduce at the last minute. For example last September’s iPod, the iPod touch was suppose to have a camera. Due to rumored technical issues decided at the last minute not to include it. It has been reported that Apple is still intends to add a camera to the ipod touch.

Rumors from earlier this month suggest the Apple tablet could be shipped with a multi touch version of iwork. Rumors did not say if iLife would be available for the tablet. Earlier Monday, Apple sent out invitations to the event at the Yerba Buena center for the Arts in San Francisco. Company used the tagline “Come see our latest creation” to invite select members of the press.

Last month, select developers were supposedly asked to prepare full screen demos of there iPhone applications for a public unveiling. Reports have said that some have been working with a new software development kit, iPhone OS 4.0, that includes a “simulator” that aims to make it easy for developers to adapt their software to different screen resolutions.

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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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Could we be looking at a new generation of iphone in April? Reports indicate new iphone 3Gs will come with high-definition OLED screens. According to a news piece published in the Korea Times earlier today, a high-ranking executive of domestic carrier KT, who asked not to be named, said it plans to introduce the ‘iPhone 4G’ in April.

According to the un-named source, the next generation iphone will also have live video chat, a better camera and a removable battery. In addition to all the new goodies added to the new iphones, the same source says the Apple’s new smart phone will also have dual core processors, more powerful graphic chips and a higher megapixel camera to boot. It’s early days yet, but “KT and Apple have reached a broad consensus to introduce the advanced models as early as possible,” he added.

reports refer to the upcoming smartphone as the “iPhone 4G” or “4G iPhone,” it’s 99 per cent certain that the “G” refers to “generation” and not 4G wireless broadband capability as, for example, Sprint and Clearwire brand their WiMAX service.

Higher-resolution graphics seem a safe bet for the next generation of iPhones, seeing as how the current iPhone’s display is a behind-the-curve HVGA 480-by-320 pixel, 3.5-inch TFT LCD, while that pesky upstart the Nexus One enjoys a lovely WVGA 800-by-480 pixel, 3.7-inch AMOLED.

Earlier this month, it was alleged that Apple’s rumored Jan. 27 event could include the introduction of iPhone OS 4.0. One report claimed the new software developer kit includes a “simulator” that makes it easy for developers to adapt to different screen resolutions.
Apple is widely expected to introduce its long-rumored tablet device at the event later this month. This week, one rumor claimed that Apple has not issued any updates for the iPhone in some time because the next version has many tablet-related references that the company did not want to leak in advance of its planned unveiling.
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