Possible picture of Apple iPad?

This might be one of the iPad prototype?

Look like iPhone: Check
Has a home button: Check
Look like 10″ diagonal: Check
Announced docking port at the bottom: Might not be visible

Update: Source for original file: http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae335/unanimouswow/Prototype352.jpg

Look like the black borders are symmetrical all around.  Could hide the wireless antennas quite well. But there is no docking port… so quite possibly [...]

Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet? « Boy Genius Report

Boy Genius Report is posting what appear to be some of the new iPhone OS 4.0 features.  in short expect:

Multitasking
New OS wide multitouch gesture
New UI making the 3G/3GS more like portable computers
New syncing method

Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet? « Boy [...]

The Dell Mini 5: Dell tablet gets a name - Pocket-lint

Dell’s 5-inch Internet tablet is to be called the Dell Mini 5 according to the company, suggesting that it will fit in its portable products range as the second handset to follow the Dell Mini 3 and slot in under the “Mini” range of netbooks.

Dell told Pocket-lint the news at an exclusive round table [...]

Samsung notebook with transparent OLED display

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Samsung is showing off a notebook prototype with a 14 inch transparent OLED display. When the screen is off, it’s up to 40% transparent. And when it’s on, you can clearly see the display, but you can also see right through it.

It could really come in handy is “head-up” displays for vehicles. Samsung says the tech could also be used for eye-catching advertisements and displays, and notebooks like this prototype.

Short video after the break.

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Possible Apple iSlate video

Final UPDATE:

OK, move on, this is a fake… bleu screen with Adobe After effect applied.  Looked good none the less.

UPDATE 1:

I downloaded the HD version of the video (1st one is 720P and 2nd 1080p) and studied them frame by frame and I must say that the second video appear to show the real deal.  You can clearly see the depth of the home button as the tablet move, the shadow of the finger on the glass above the UI, etc, etc.

This is quite possibly the actual iSlate (or wathever name it will have). Continue reading Possible Apple iSlate video (or possibly prototype of)

Apple to release new 3D UI based mobile device OS 4.0?

I have been reading the newly unearthed patent from Apple about the 3D UI… and my conclusion is that Apple won’t just introduce a new mobility device at the end of the month… they will show off what the next iPhone 4.0 OS will be like.

What Apple is about to do is [...]

Hidden patent for Apple 3D tech behind the rumored Apple “iSlate” tablet?

BaltThec has unerthed an Apple pattent pointing to a 3D interface for tablet like multitouch devices.  This might be the secret sauce for the impending tablet product that Apple is expected to release at the end of the month.

Here is what he has to say:

Some of the recent reports that predict Apple will launch [...]

NetbookInstaller Plans for 0.8.4

In a recent post Meklort stated that he will focus on simplifying the installation experience even more for the 0.8.4 release. his main goal is to make NetbookBootMaker supported on multiple platforms (or a version of it for each).

Many users on the MyDellMini forum have installed using Mechdrew’s NetbookCD and related guides. At the moment, NetbookCD [...]

NetbookInstaller 0.8.3 RC5 is officially released

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NetbookInstaller 0.8.3 RC5 is officially released. There are a few major changes (although, as far as the user is concerned, they are probably minor). Most notably is the new kernel patch, unless if apple changes their code again to break it, the bootloader will auto determine the patch location. Another major change is [...]