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It's staggering the debate an unannounced product can provoke. I'm staggered that anyone would say "I want one" without knowing what it is. I guess I have to think they are Apple devotees.
There is an assumption in this forum that people make rational purchasing decisions. Well maybe the people posting here do....but most people don't. I have a friend who recently got an iPhone and a while later asked me why it wouldn't take as good a photo as her old phone. So she had no idea when buying it that the iPhone camera leaves something to be desired. So not a rational purchase. So when some people here say that the iPhone is good enough for what 90% of people want - the reality is they don't know if it will do what they want (and most people just want to make calls and send texts anyway) but they buy it because they have been told it is the best - by other people who also made irrational purchases.
So will I buy a tablet? Probably not. If it were to prove a brilliant replacement for my netbook, maybe. As an e-reader (which is where we all started from here), probably not - battery life, rewading outdoors, blah blah. Neither could I imagine reading a book on the iPhone screen. So convergence of devices isn't happening and for future holidays I will still need e-reader, phone, netbook, camera plus chargers and adapters!
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