Unannounced unconfirmed Apple tablet gets delayed

By on Nov 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM
General November 19, 2009

Apple Tablet

We can file this one under rumor of a rumor — you’ve been warned — so please, proceed with caution. DigiTimes is reporting that Apple’s yet to be announced tablet device will be delayed until the second half of 2010 due to a last minute design change, specifically, the use of a 9.7″ OLED LG display. The report goes onto say that the delay is a strategic move by Apple due to the current cost of the OLED panels, which currently wholesale for around $500 a pop. The price of LG’s panels are expected to drop significantly in late 2010 as they revamp their production line with newer equipment. The report is oozing with speculation on release dates, price, manufacturer, and potential future models, so we’ll let you check out the dirt for yourself.

[Via Gizmodo]

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  • jayrodathome

    @chriskallday,
    what you typed was retarded. it doesn’t even make any sense. I’m not an apple fan boy but the whole part about having to pay for apps that should already be on there? the app store is one of the biggest innovations to hit the mobile scene in a long time. if you can’t see that then you are an idiot.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Saco North America

    • chriskallday

      well moron, perhaps the iPhone is the first so called smartphone you ever owned. I never said the app store wasn’t an innovation…as I said it was a game changer. But tell me do you really needs apps for your phone? I don’t remember having to download apps for any other smartphone I’ve ever owned. Of course everyone is incorporating their own verison of an app store because they see how easily people are won over by having a free zippo lighter they can launch. Here’s a good one, learn to multi-task, oh wait you can’t.

      The fact is people companies will now start to restrict more on mobile phones and you’ll have to start paying more to use your phone. You may not see it now, just give it time. Until then stop with your I’m a 35 year old man, mid life crisis so I bought an iPhone attitude.

      I’ll await your reply via the BGR app on your iPhone. In the meantime I’ll be browsing the web on my N97 with flash support.

      • Jayrodathome

        I don’t own an iphone. I own a Motorola droid. I’ve never owned an iphone. I’m on Verizon. But for example. An app in the app store that coordinates with your accounting software in your office is a paid app. your telling me that a program like that shouldn’t be available for download? and should be already on the phone? and that you should get it for free? dude your not even making any sense. adding functionality to any phone using a medium such as the “app store” or “google market” or “app world” is a great idea and apple started it. and you don’t have to download apps. they are there and available, if one happens to be of use to you. The phone comes with everything it needs to function and be used as a smart phone.
        and I’m 29 and have never owned an iphone. I was simply stating that you are wrong and that the app store indeed is an amazing technology brought to the consumer by Apple. and I’m sure many will agree. because whether you are an iphone owner or an android owner or a palm owner, you appreciate the ability to download apps for fun or business that suit your needs. Technology that was never available on the “smart phones” you used to own. and I think everyone here can agree.

  • Carmen

    As the iPhone changed the mobile device market, and the iPod changed the portable media player market, this device could change the portable computer market.

    No one understands this device because we haven’t experienced it yet. There were people who couldn’t ever imagine why anyone would want a computer in their home. After all, they are for science, and big business. Clearly those people were wrong.

    I see this device as a companion piece, it’s not supposed to replace a desktop (as a laptop is) but rather compliment it. I see this device sitting on people’s coffee tables. It can be used to control audio in a home, to look up something quickly that you saw on a commercial, or to quickly reply to an e-mail. It bridges the gap between the device you have in your pocket all-day-every-day, and your desktop machine. I bought a netbook about a year ago to fill this gap, but with it’s small screen resolution and its low-powered processor, it proved to be pretty useless. I just didn’t like having to pan around on websites. Plus the shift key was in a weird place and it made it hard to use (but that is the fault of that particular model netbook).

    The bottom line is we don’t know what this device will be or if it will be useful to anyone. We’ll just have to wait and see how the market adopts it.

    • Jairo c

      @carmen
      Sigh!! That was worded perfectly ! its sad the trolls that think they know everything, but it untill its actually realeased dont know nada!!

  • Powers johnson

    I want one

  • scot

    This tablet will need a built-in stand for use on a table.
    I think a pivoting little angle stand molded into the box, with some dense EVA foam placed on the base will be a necessary component to this nice little gismo.
    Giving the tablet some angle off the desk top will be awesome

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