Well – we hear that some iPhone app developers are already working on a series of apps to be available at launch (the lack of Lists support in Tweetie and the lack of any updates for EchoFon would make me think they’re both working on a larger screen version of their apps). So we’ll have Twitter, we’ll have some games and we’re likely to have a heap of other content as the videos below indicate…
Mag+ by Bonnier R&D:
Time shows off Sports Illustrated
Condé Nast and WIRED magazine
My use case for the Tablet is something that works in Landscape and Portrait (in exactly the way that my iPhone does and my MacBook doesn’t).
It needs to be able to play HD video (even just YouTube HD), browse the web, have decent WiFi, run a few apps and be capable of a little text entry.
I’m not sure if it needs local storage other than synced copies of iTunes stuff? Maybe this thing will be like an Apple TV with built-in display on steroids rather than an iPhone?
I don’t think it needs 3G or GPS but the latter would be a wasted opportunity if not included.
What do you want a tablet for?
I don’t know, but I’m sure Apple will tell me why I want one.
I would like decent text entry in addition to web and possibly GPS giggery-pokery. I miss my old iBook for typing up notes when I’m away from home and would like something light for travelling…like a netbook, but from Apple.
I think I’m sumwhat obvious for this device as I’m of the ‘battered old phone’ camp who doesn’t have an iPhone… I’m wondering what iPhone users would feel they’d gain from this for whatever cost it will be.
There’s a possibility the tablet could be of use to artists – a large, touch-sensitive lightboard device would be a great creative tool for the field… although whether it will have the power to run even stripped down graphics programs remains to be seen. Syncing to a desktop as a control surface when at base would be easy. This could prove useful for audio/video editors too, but is more a nice extra – there are likely dedicated similar control surfaces already available for cheaper.