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Rumor: 3G iPhone To Launch In May, Multitouch Tablet Mac At WWDC

Published by Edward Kirk on May 11, 2008 - 9:49pm.

Most of the rumors out there have pointed to some time in June (probably around WWDC) for the launch of the 3G iPhone, but SwitchToaMac.com thinks otherwise. They believe that Apple will be announcing the handheld in May and launching it the next day, considerably earlier than suspected. Instead of the 3G iPhone at WWDC in June, they claim, Apple will be launching a new portable device.

They write that Apple will be bumping the 3G iPhone launch date in order to focus on the announcement of a multi-touch tablet at the conference. The device will reportedly have a higher screen resolution (720x480) and be about one and a half times the size.

In April, Repubblica.it also suspected the 3G launch to happen in May instead of June.

[via MacRumors]
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Submitted by *edwardapplebee (not verified) on May 12, 2008 - 8:45am.
Why would apple want to compete with itself? What would a multi-touch tablet 1.5 times the size of an iPhone do that an iPhone doesn't do? I think it's been long enough since the newton, we can finally say that the apple tablet isn't gonna happen.
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what we need is a real apple tablet/notebook

Submitted by cacopotoso (not verified) on May 12, 2008 - 10:21pm.
Sort of like the tablet/notebook convertibles popular in the windoze world, but made by apple... I am thinking 12 to 13" in diagonal, with a DVD burner, wi-fi, bluetooth, real OSX (not a slimmed down version), core 2 duo processor, 2 GB+ of ram, a 100GB (or more) hd, gigabit ethernet, firewire, and at least 2 usb ports. Now: for this I'm willing to pay... if it comes with a nice software set to make notes, annotations, etc, etc.
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+1

Submitted by ulous (not verified) on May 12, 2008 - 11:40pm.
Surely Apple can remember the debacle over Newtons - I had two of the stupid things!
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