Apple new tablet: iPad or iTab

It’s silly to speculate about the new tablet that Apple is going to announce just 6-7 hours later, but i’ll be silly today :D.

Facts:
- This new device runs iPhone OS, according to McGraw-Hill CEO interviews on CNBC and mobile application analytics firm Flurry. That means, it’s not just an pure e-book reader like Kindle, which is a silly concept and device.
- Its screen size is 10 to 11 inches, based on Apple component orders in December 2009 with Innolux and Wall Street Journal interviews.
Predictions:
- I bet its name would be iPad (with 1 vote from our Forbes’ friend) or iTab. Please, either iSlate or iTablet is suck.
- Students will love this, since this could be the true OneNote device that Microsoft actually should create with their OneNote software long ago. Based on various deals between Apple and publishers, it seems that Apple (at least) wants “one iPad/iTab per student”. That is to say, if there is no built-in hand-writing capability for multiple languages, I won’t buy it.
  - Update (12 hours later): Well I can save money now, since it has only native hand-writing recognition for Chinese. The price is pretty good though: lowest model at US$499 (iPad with 16G + WiFi) and highest model at $829 (iPad with 64G + WiFi+3G). Its main focus is on content consumption (web, photo, music via iTunes, video via YouTube, books via iBooks), not much on content creation.

On the silly trend, here are some features of my dream tablet/personal device

Big (at least A4 size), flexible touch screen. This has been researched for long (e.g., by Plastic Logic) and probably will be available in the mass market soon (Fujitsu small prototype in 2005, LG 19-inch prototype in 2010).
- 2011-05-08 update: Flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut: ‘The PaperPhone can do all the things bulkier smartphones can do such as make and take calls, send messages, play music or display e-books’.
- 2011-05-23 update: At the 49th SID International Symposium, Seminar & Exhibition (SID 2011), Sony announced a flexible electronic paper which could be bent to a curvature radius of at least 5mm. The e-paper is based on organic TFTs (thin-film transistors), size of 13.3 inches, resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixel and 150ppi, and a thickness of 120μm.
This screen will connect with my mobile phone, either via wireless (a bit long way to go), wire (a bit messy), or clip-in (not likely, somehow like the way of detachable screen in Lenovo IdeaPad U1 and Skylight).
It has universal power charger, e.g., we can bring it anywhere, plug in a USB port or micro-USB port to charge it.
- It’s not really ultra-thin or ultra-portable if your tablet/laptop is less than 1kg but its power adapter is 1-1.5kg. While PCs have a common power plug and mobiles are going to have an universal power charger in 2012, laptops/tablets from different brands still have different power adapters & connections. It’s just wrong.

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