In accordance to the most sought apple tablet statement happening in less than 6 hours today, we are delighted to give you the freshest info about this mythical slate (given with ‘oh so many names’) now seems ready, to be demystified out of the pandora’s box. Mythical, legendary, best or worst – It’ll up to your preferences, if this one will be ‘the one’.

To start the rumor-mills with a big bang, here’s a bomb dropped by a Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com (A search engine site with a dash of answers.yahoo.com type of features) offering what seems to be the upcoming specs of the Apple Tablet. Here’s a screenshot from TC.com. Btw, it appears that the guy’s serious about this leaked specs.. Oh well, here it goes.

Our take?

1) “Most amazing ever”, “amazing for newspapers”, “super stable”.

Amazing! For a CEO of his kind, throwing some courageous apple-tablet inspired ‘wows’ is just utterly impressive nonetheless, his own opinion only. When Nexus One was released, first few people who got a hand of that device reacted with so much hype: What was that again? “On a beautified steroids”.. Oh well, I don’t know about that now.

2) Battery life is “great” reading ebooks, but not so great in flight mode (2-3 hours only)

Plausible, but this is not something that’s an eye-opener for everyone. We know that one of iPhone’s weaknesses is its fast battery depletion during wifi mode. Perhaps on the new tablet, this flaw will be carry out, but I still hope that’s not the case!

3) “tailor-made games are “sick”, on Wii level” -

“When you speak about wii level, for me it has to be capable of having a motion sensor of tracking my movement as I perform the game. Looking at the two new patent technology, there might be some light with this statement, with a caveat that the games must be modified for the slate only.

4) The customized Farmville app (which Jobs is going to demo tomorrow with the CEO of the company behind it) is “insane”.

Again, an interesting opinion. Although, don’t get your hopes too up too soon. And why Farmville only?

Functions and features:

1) OLED Screen, iPhone OS variation, Multiple Apps (Running music while playing a video, etc) – Very likely, this one has been predicted over and over again.

2) Solar Powered – This is one of the most amazing things that will happen for this device if ever that rumor is true. Although we have been hearing this for weeks now, Mr. Briggs’ article tends to believe that this legendary device won’t have solar capability. Dam-n, I hope there’s still some light for that statement

3) Thumb pads on each sides – Should this be true, I bet it’ll not only rest on the side. I wonder what does he truly means with the word “thumb pads”

4) Finger-print verification – Plausible: We have that on our laptops, why shouldn’t it be implemented on this messiah gadget?

5 profiles can be registered on one device: What’s this? iTunes?

5) HDTV tuner, a PVR and a chess game built-in – HDTV and PVR Tuner: Wouldn’t it make the tablet look bulky and cheap if they put so many dangling peripherals on this one? One thing that I know about Mr. Jobs, is that he won’t take elegance for granted even we are talking about boosting his iGadgets performance.

Chess game built-in: MMkay, so all the while we have amazing Wii like gaming performance on the above statement and now, a chessgame? C’mon, make us dream for more!

6) Back camera and front camera (quote: “you shoot what’s in front of you + yourself. Augmented video conferencing!”) – So we have two cams now? I can’t comment on this one. The whole arrangement of the statement is kind of ‘jigsawed’ in my opinion

7) Wireless keyboard + monitor connection for external monitors – Plausible: One of the dreams of some iPhone users is to have a real physical keyboard for their device. A wireless keyboard (perhaps connected via bluetooth) will be interesting to see.

Network Carriers and Pricing

8) The tablet will be offered by Verizon and AT&T – Yes and Yes: Seeing that the new tablet will be open for Red V (not the robot) is just a godsent for people who is so ‘tired’ of being on that deadlast carrier for 2009.

9) It will cost $599, $699 or $799, depending on the screen size and internal memory – What a predicament! All the while we thought this will be unveiled ranging from 900-1000 USD and then this? I say sweet, although there’s some “IF” which depends mainly on the specs and size of the tablet.

So are we seeing that the new tablet will be unveiled just like other iDevices (small, medium, large?) Possibly yes, Didn’t we heard that there’s a ‘7inch, 10inch, 11inch rumor‘ for this one already?

Mr. Jobs ‘super-line’

“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done” Referring to the apple tablet.

Although, TC didn’t throw where/when/how they’ve got this statement. This line alone sure gave us some goosebumps and successfully injected me some steroidal-boost to keep my eyes open until the Mr. Jobs finished his statement about the tablet today.

I mean, the iPhone was hailed as the ‘game-changer’ of all smartphones for 2008 and to think that there’ll be another device which is somewhat ‘more important’ than the ‘jesus phone’ is just pretty BOOMBASTIC to see.

History of The Apple Tablet

What more summary could be greater than to see the apple tablet’s history all packed into one picture. We got two sources: From engadget and lalawag. These guys meticulously put the pieces of the puzzle in place to give you the most concise info about this one. Enjoy! (click to enlarge)

Ain’t seen enough? Here’s more.

Apple Tablet freshly-baked ‘rumored’ pics and videos

And what more ways to end this post majestically than to give some bunch of real-looking pics/vids for the tablet? Time to wear your ‘goggles’ now folks and scrutinize what’s in-front of the screen.

Fan-made

This one is interesting

Videos anyone?

Oh well, I guess nowhereelse got this one a little bit half-baked this time, what’s your take?

Ice-Breaker:

It seems engadget, may have yet the first official unconfirmed unicorn tablet pictures from all other techblogs. They even put some patches to the image.. for some undisclosed reasons (perhaps)

Pretty impressive, although engadget is still making you want to hold your horses yet, for this leak might be another fakey. Our take? After seeing this tablet, we’re kind of disappointed if this will be the legendary tablet, we had loong been waiting for several months now.. I mean, c’mon.. I want to feel the intensity here, my men!

Couple hours from the official statement, everything will/might change.. For better, for worst (not the wedding liner) we will keep you guys posted as usual.

If you’re an enthusiasts then this official statement is a must have for you, if you’re an average joe who just want to meld and know what apple has stored for you then don’t miss the said date either. Everyone is qualified, you don’t need to become a tech-fashionista just to fit in yourself, as long as you know the topic to sell and we’re all set! –  So what’s the topic again? Well it just so happen that next week, Apple will finally reveal their most guarded secret gadget(s) of the month –You know? The one which was said to bring forth a yet another game-changer for our gizmos that we carry around — their mytholigical tablet which was called with ‘oh so many names’, the closest one is the title “iSlate”. Also, the ‘most awaited’ iPhone 4G will have a place on the crowd too, now getting a quality dose of rumor-juice.

So let’s start with the official statement.

Apple invites us, humans to see their latest creations on their very vibrant “Come see our latest creations” card taking place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, on January 27, 2010 – starting 10:00am

What to see?

According to foxnews this event will surely dazzle us – I suppose seeing first hand what the rumored tablet can do is exhilirating already (hopefully, it can live up to the expectations of the uproaring crowd) Other than the tablet, iPhone 4G and iLife 2010 software will also be tackled. What’s that again? iLife? Hmm, now that’s new! Here’s the excerpt

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. While we won’t see new iPhone hardware just yet, we will see the next-generation software.

So while you’re here waiting, we prepared some things that you may want to look at before you head on with Apple’s D day ceremony.

iPhone 4G: What to expect?

Good guys from nowherelse.fr made a quick breakdown of what are the plausible scenarios for the 4th generation model. It seems the availability of it on May-Jun 2010, OLED display, 5MP camera are the most probable cases, as we expected. Albeit, the rumors of it having a front-faced cam, beefed out dual-core procs and memory and removable battery are already lining up on a half-full, half-empty scenario. Okay, here’s the picture for you to scrutinize! (click to enlarge)

Is it me or just my hazy eyes, but what happened to the new 64 GIG storage capacity?

Anyway, I’m sure we will have a better picture on Apple’s D Day.

Apple Tablet: What to expect?

Added to the pre-rumor mills and the neo-rumor mills we’ve collected here’s another one from WSJ. And oh, these guys mean business!

HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc.

HarperCollins is expected to set the prices of the e-books, which would have added features, with Apple taking a percentage of sales. Details haven’t been ironed out.

What does it mean?

It appears HarperCollins Publisher will try to distribute its e-book, primarily to Apple and let the users dictate the price for each e-book copy which is rumored to be sold on iTunes.

If this rumor will become true, this could spell a real threat to Amazon’s dominating streak on the ebook industry via their Kindle, which we all know will probably have a stiff rivalry with Skiff reader too.

Pretty interesting stuff huh? Well, if you have some more minutes to burn you can digest all the details on this WSJ report.

As usual, we will keep you guys updated on what’s the official score for these mythological gadgets. Stick around.

January 27 Updates: The moment of truth is just minutes away and we’ve got the whole summary here and some ‘boastful specs coming from our sources. Savor it! while waiting for the official statement today.

Apple has been very good on concealing its fruit away from the techie-adam, albeit each day that unfolds more and more leaks are being purported, faster than a wildfire, for the people to eat. During the past week it has been really interesting how the simple theories about the new tablet materialize, I compiled all of the ‘good stuff’ out from the bad ones – but I also made sure to include the seems to be funny yet hoax’y proposals with the iSlate. So let’s bring on the contenders!

The Almost Officials

The new tablet will be endowed with two new patent technologies, Bottom factor: The new technology will enable users to go beyond what their normal touchscreen pads can do. A capability to sense and follow the type of actions you set on the tablet.

A good sample is when you tilt the keyboard on sideways – the tablet can detect and produce specific actions for that. Also, you can customize your tablet to fit in with your preference. As said, “Type without ever moving your hands off the keyboard”.

Fingerworks a multi-touch interface company Apple purchased five years ago (Not rumored to be shutdown by Apple today) had provided some interesting concepts on how does the newly improve touchscreen works.

New types of multitouch gestures will be implemented, some of them are already pre-installed but there’s a rumor that you can personalize your finger gesture and set a specific command for that (Impressive isn’t?) CG got ‘em all.

Here’s a video mimicking those hand/finger gestures.

The Less Officials

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Ah yes, the picture that raised a thousand questions – The purpose of this guide is to explain the possibilities of the hoaxes and rumors should it become true, once the tablet has officially been released. Some of the points being raised here are quite factual – which has officially been tackled before. Keep in mind that the ‘multitouch version of iWork’ is iThink should still be on the unlikely color scheme.

BGR’s mysterious tipster also have some good rumor-mill to weave. Albeit, BGR’s boys sometimes get the opposite of facts too. So just weigh in the possibilities.

• The tablet’s multi-touch gestures are “out of control.”
• It’s powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU
• It runs on the iPhone kernel.
• The internal model number is K48AP.

• The tablet is basically an “iPhone on steroids”.

Now that’s the statement of the month, although I agree and disagree with some of the categories. If we are talking only about the specs – There’s no doubt that it’ll be on a steroids – Just look at the two newly patented tech features that will be infused with this slate.

However, if the steroids, is about ‘it’ getting the hype more than what iPhone had brought to the users then certainly this device is not the one which can achieve such popularity. Making a tablet’s usability equal on how users used their PC’s, notebook, mobile phone everyday would take years to achieve.

Two and a half years ago, when iPhone was introduced, people are already honed with using a cellphone in fact PDA’s has already been a normal techie-device for us – so the transition of people getting hooked up with a smartphone like the iPhone has been very fast. In fact, you can’t barely notice the transition time at all. People just dive in and get that iDevice. However, for Apple’s tablet, we all know that’s not the case.

Also the price of this slate is somewhat not what you called the average – If Apple can’t give enough answers why a practical user should buy this ‘almost a grand tablet’ then the question if this tablet will be the next ‘game changer’ won’t even be close to existence.

So far, let’s end this division with some fictitious yet reasonably fair demo on how the UI of the tablet will perform.

Don’t we just learn something new again from the tube?

The Hoax Officials

Nothing makes a rumor complete than to start it with some fakey specs, and fakey pics as well.

And wheu, this one is utterly disappointing. It was said, that this LCD will be the one that’s going to be used for the tablet.

Speaking of 10.1 inch LCD’s, there was a hoax that “ The availability of 10.1-inch multi-touch LCD and OLED display panels from Asian suppliers is said to be nonexistent, as one designer has claimed Apple “pre-ordered them all.” Endgeeks sure was fast to answer this rumor.

“Our take: We certainly saw plenty of new 10.1-inch netbooks and slates at CES, including some multitouch LCD units, and no one was complaining. Also, we saw several larger OLED displays at CES, but they were all too expensive and impractical for shipping products, so that’s gotta be one hell of a discount.”

And some ‘Le Tablet’ story for you monsieur/mademoiselle.

Stéphane Richard, second in command at Orange, was asked on a Europe 1 radio program about the Apple Tablet. When he was asked whether such a tablet will be announced before the end of the month, he responded “Yes,” and when asked whether Orange users would get it, he responded “Sure!”

After some help from a good samaritan translator, endgadget got what the Orange Exec ‘supposed’ to mean.

Predictably saying these comments are being taken out of context, that Richard was “merely confirming that he is aware of the speculation surrounding a launch.

So you see? The Apple Silencer Group of Assassins once again prevailed of concealing their mythological tablet to mankind. Hooray!

Wrap-up:

We are still about two weeks away from the official statement of Apple, then here we are again going into some bizaare rampage – so thirsty to know what’s the truth, well in fact the truth is not yet plausible because the one who will reveal it doesn’t want to .. just yet… Can’t we just wait for 13 more days?

For the coming days expect that there will be a lot of leaks about what’s the real score for the slate tablet. Just don’t complain if you happened to be that person who believes on that yet another seemingly believable hoax then it turns out it was quite the opposite of the real one. See? I told you so…

Me? I’ll stick with the official one.

According to mac4ever: Developers had been given an iPhone OS 4 SDK which includes a “simulator” for reformatting / scaling applications to a new, tablet-sized screen – Obviously, for beta testing purposes to make app’s compatible with the bigger resolution of the new tablet – and other purposes as well.

WSJ also stated that the rumored ‘Cupertino tablet a.k.a iSlate’ will be unveiled on a ‘10-11 inch size’ rather than the predicted ‘7incher rumor’ and will be ready for shipping this March at a price of $1000. Hmm? Its sources also suggest that the new tablet can “redefine the way consumers interact with a variety of content” – As if this something new to our ears? If you’ll follow the two patented technology Apple is promising for their iSlate then there’s no more doubt if this tablet can bring a new interactivity to users, ‘coz in fact it will (There goes my hunch again). You can read all of WSJ’s statement here (keep in mind that you need to subscribe first to savor all of its juices)

That’s it for the official headstart – Now here’s the bomb! I know on our last ‘iSlate Specs’ post we only tackled a very minute percentage about what’s the full specs of the new tablet. Today, recent leaks suggest that they have full specifications of the iSlate.

But grr, a fakey. Just by looking at the texture of this so-called ‘Apple islate document scanned paper send to an email of a phonearena diddlers’ you can judge that its dubious – But hey, we are posting this for the avid enthusiast to criticize this one. So let’s bring it now, shall we?

The real punchline for this one is the “Clouded Leopard v10.7 Mac OS X” – Even if you try to find the synonyms of Snow (Snow Leopard) the clouded term is still really hilarious. If you have another 60 seconds to burn then here are the other stuff I found which are highly ‘amusing’.

• Networking: Built-in 10/1000 BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet? Wow, I bet this tablet has a RJ-45 female socket too. Lol
• 7.1 inch (diagonal) widescreen. MultiTouch Display with intelligent feedback? Woh, what’s that again? “Intelligent Feedback” As I can recall the two patented tech has a name: Keystroke Tactility Arrangement on a Smooth Touch Surface, Touch Surface Controller – I don’t know where you can find the ‘Intelligent feedback there’. By the way, if WSJ’s “10 incher” post is official then this 7.1 inch drafted specs will be fictitious too.
• USB iSlate SuperDrive. I bet they have iSlate SuperBluRay Drive too, don’t they? :D
• 120 GB SATA with 4200 RPMS only? Is it year 2007 again?
• Processor Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz (Back to the past my men)

Obviously, this so called rumored specs was made to stir the funny bone of geeks until the official specs leaks out. The strange thing though, is how Phonearena treat this ‘tipster of the day’ specs for real (As it appears to me) and woh, they even have time to put a watermark on the document? Way to go!

Anyway, we’ll keep you guys posted if ever there will be another new ‘rumor in town’ about the Apple Tablet, Hopefully what’s next can tickle us even more. Me? I’ll stick with the official statement.

(iSlate Images above unofficial)

This is not another jesus phone (as TC calls it), i mean iphone. Not a new iPod twin type (disappointingly) also this not about contacting an extra terrestrial being from. … bahh, this about a Tablet! Yep, A  t-a-b-l-e-t guys. Could somebody call the clowns now, please? I can feel our readers are starting to get bored.

So how special is this tablet anyway? Here are some of the prev from BGR and Brainstormtech:

The size of this ‘very soon’ tablet will be 7-inch (100% sure) Although there will be a 10incher follow-up rumored to be release on spring.

The concept of this tablet sounds mediocre: Try to think about the iPhone make it 7-inch and voila we got the new apple tablet.

A tablet with a multi-touch feature: It may sound new to the tablet industry, but for the users? Of course this is expected. It wouldn’t be the image and likeness of the iPhone without a multitouch feat, wouldn’t it? The funny thing though is how appleinsider manage to salvage this comment:

One current senior employee at Apple would only say that Jobs is “extremely happy with the new tablet.” Someone else who recently left Apple reportedly said that users will be “surprised how you interact with the new tablet.”

In my opinion, I think users will be extremely happy if they saw the new tablet with ‘minority report like interface’ infused with it.

And that’s why there’s a buzz that Apple had recently filed for two patents namely, Keystroke Tactility Arrangement on a Smooth Touch Surface: Ability of the system to detect the type of interaction you are playing with it. and Multipoint Touch Surface Controller: A more advance system for detecting multi points on a touch screen. Get all the geeky details @appleinsider

Did I say it will be unveiled on the 26th of January, 2010?

Now TC is cooking some theories again about the nameless Tablet, they have a strong belief that this one will be named as iSlate. Snap! okay first and foremost, if you’ll say that it sounds turd then worry not, there’s a lot of people who are with the same boat as you are. But for what it’s worth, the term ‘slate’ has been used in the Tablet industry. Which simply refers to as a tablet pc sans the keyboard and utilizes stylus/fingertips for the interaction.

Now for the theory about the iSlate, here’s an excerpt from Techcrunch:

Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back in 2007.

Mr Robin of TC manages to play some tech-detective game of who’s the owner, tracing some link of the islate domain to the impending release of the new tablet today. Is it a coincidence? Well, iSay we just wait for 4 weeks to find out, it isn’t that long, is it?

Here’s a salvaged video to give you guys some enlightenment on how the theory all began:

Wrap-up:

As expected, buzz is swarming around the techworld again, it wouldn’t be an Apple release without an excessive humm, wouldn’t it? All we hope is that this Tablet a.k.a iSlate // unknown, will set a new standards for the tablet industry. If this will be just an ordinary tablet, then pardon us, but it wouldn’t be flocked by the majority especially when there are several high-end tablets that’s being furnaced with an average cost.

I have a feeling that the cost of this Apple Tablet will not be mediocre too and expect that there will be added strings attach which will only be disclosed until the day of the release. Apple loves to do that un-intentionally.

We will keep you guys posted!