Apple Tablet Set To WOW Consumer Retail Tech Sectors

Insider contacts have confirmed the new Apple Tablet set for release by mid-2010 likely won’t encompass a 3D interface. Although, there’s been enough background murmurings about the method users will employ to interact with Apple’s forthcoming tablet to expect something new.

What that “new” is? Only Apple knows… but if my Apple employee tipster is right, whatever the Tablet’s UI is, it’s going to be different enough from OS X or the iPhone OS to require a significant learning curve. It will also encorporate applications of Google's Android including streaming-video and TV tuner capabilities at a potential price point of $750 to $950 ranges.

The Insider confirmed a sizable learning curve regarding the “new” Apple product about to be released [and its] interface. This person is an tech employee of Apple and had just had a meeting regarding some of the new things coming. He/She would not go into all details, but did say that he/she hoped I enjoyed the exclusive peek.

Time and again, interfaces that require steep learning curves fail when compared to subtle evolutions of intuitively entrenched desktop metaphors. Browser gestures, for example, have never really caught on, since they require a lot of memorization to utilize properly, while multitouch was embraced without confusion by millions of people, due to the natural intuitiveness of touching an object to manipulate it. Below see the prototype new Apple Tablet preparing for release soon.

Since Apple still does multitouch better than anyone else out there, presumably the NEW Tablet won’t have too outlandish an interface, but talk of a steep learning curve is still eyebrow arching. My biggest worry is that the “learning curve” spoken of here applies to the biggest hole in the touchscreen experience: text entry. The specter of Palm Graffiti still haunts me, although in truth, if Apple chooses to do something new here (and I think they will), they’re more likely to adopt a more graceful and intuitive system. 

Additional tablet PC competition from Hewlett Packard (HP), Microsoft (MSFT), DELL (Dell), SONY (SNE), Panasonic (PC), Toshiba (TOSBF.PK) and GE Medical (GE) in the mobile tablet space is set to heat-up the 2010 market soon including:

Above the 10 inch tablet from Shenzhen Great Long Brother Industrial isn’t running Google Chrome like some other tablets weve seen.  But it does have nice chrome around the edges of the slate which gives it an nice visual appeal.

Above Cydle had decided to add a TV Tuner to thier new Slate design. These features make it look real promising.

800MHz Arm Processor
7″ Display
TV Tuner
Google Android OS
A Projected $199 Price Tag

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