iTablet جهاز أبل القادم في أكتوبر

داخل شركة أبل تدور أخبار مصدرها موقع ArsTechnica ان العمل على جهاز آبل الجديد ، والذي هو عبارة عن شاشة كبيرة تعمل باللمس
فالجدير بالذكر أن الشركة المصنعة تتطلع لإطلاق الجهاز في شهر أكتوبر القادم بالتزامن مع موسم الاجازات وربما من أجل أخذ القليل من بريق ويندوز 7. والجهاز المزعوم كان تحت التطوير لأكثر من سنتين حيث لاتوجد اي معلومات مؤكدة عن .. شكله لكن بعض من متتبعي براءات الاختراع التي قدمتها آبل يظن ان هذه الاجهزة ستدعم الادخال بطريقتين الاولى عن طريق اللمس ام الثانية فسوف تكون عن طريق أحد أقلام اللمس والتي تستخدم مع بعض شاشات اللمس وأغلبنا يذكر أجهزة iMate التي طالما إستخدمت هذه الاقلام (أين إختفت iMate؟). الجهاز في حالة صدر يتوقع ان يكون سعره مابين 800$ إلى حدود 999$ فنحن نتكلم عن آبل والتي لا أظن انها سترضى بسعر منخفض بالاضافة إلى ان أجهزة آبل تشتهر بتكلفة المواد المكونة للجهاز والغالية التكلفة.





New sources pour fuel on iTablet rumor fire:

Inside sources again claim that Apple has a tablet ready to release "in time for the holidays," and will be partnering with Verizon to provide mobile data services and possible subsidies, though those details have apparently not been worked out. This new rumor seems to confirm rumors from earlier this year that Verizon would be carrying an Apple "media pad," as well as reports earlier this month that Chinese suppliers had already received orders for parts to produce the device in time for a possible October launch.

According to sources for The Street, Apple has been working on the tablet for about two years. Working prototypes have supposedly existed for almost a year, which would lend credence to a fall launch window. Verizon is expected to subsidize at least some of the rumored $800 price, though because the device will be data-only, subsidies may be much less than those for the iPhone—which also involves lucrative monthly voice and texting plans.

In the last few years, Apple has filed numerous patent applications that describe technologies that could be used in a tablet-like device. This includes two that suggests it may ultimately have a hybrid input system that combines touch and stylus input. One is a patent filed early last year which describes a way for a touch screen to interpret various multitouch inputs—including typing on a virtual keyboard—as well as stylus input, all on the fly. Another is a patent Apple was recently granted that expands on its Inkwell handwriting recognition, which includes a method to acquire and interpret stylus-based input for multiple applications. Combined with a patent for multitouch gestures to control a more desktop like GUI, these patents suggest a sort of iPhone OS/Mac OS hybrid, with touch gestures for some types of input, and a stylus used for handwriting, drawing, and other more precise input.

All these patents and rumors don't a tablet make, but given the success of the iPod touch, soaring sales of netbooks, and the technology at Apple's disposal, it certain seems more and more likely that tablet-like device could represent the "ideas" Apple says it has when it comes to competing with the proliferation of netbooks.