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Originally Posted by phenomshel

More fuel to this fire on CNN Money:

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune....blet-in-march/

They're saying a $600 price point - I was expecting closer to 8 or 9. And all that assumes there ever IS such a device.

At that price it's close to reasonable but given they will never discount the device as long as the zombies line up it will never end up in my hands...not when I will be able to get a Win7 touch slate PC for the same price or less w/o all the [s]restrictions[/s], errrr, requirements aPPlE will put on the beast.

Originally Posted by rhari79

In my so far unsuccessfu quest for a Nokia N900 this side of asia, I came across this site about a shop in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan.

http://3gmobile.shop-pro.jp/
http://3gmobile.shop-pro.jp/?pid=15220797

They are already putting up a price tag for a supposed apple tablet.

Again, this is probably a fake considering the way ths site looks, but still..
To be taken with more than a pinch of salt..those well-versed in japanese can make more sense out of this though.

If that is it, from the specs I can read, it's the same device as seen here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66012

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/n...irst-pixel-qi/

Even down to the description of the oleophobic surface. No matter because if that is real, it's a nice design and would be very useful...running Win7 Ultra not OS XXVI.II.iv.xvii.b and when the *.c "update" is release it will cost another $100 for all of the components to work as advertized but buyers of new devices will get the increased features and bug fixes free...for a lower price.

EDIT: Actually I re-read the specs and if those are the real specs for the Apple device WOW, nice...but I doubt they get that battery life from that CPU and other hardware setup...still a nice rig and if confgured like that it's worth the $600 tag...and the best part is sit should run Win7 no problem.

Had to add this as well because if the image on this page is real:
http://3gmobile.shop-pro.jp/?mode=ca...=106952&csid=0

That thing with a DVD drive is an uber sexy design...and pretty much an ideal slate device in my book. Everything, almost of a laptop save a keyboard but easy to use a folding iGo or something along those lines.