Right, the good news first: a new report says the Apple tablet will now come in two flavours, LCD and gorgeous OLED. The bad news: that means the Apple tablet will likely be delayed until the back end of 2010 as Apple tries to bring costs down.
Word from the DigiTimes in Taiwan – which was bang on in its early reports of a Nokia netbook – is that the Apple tablet will now come in a 10.6-inch LCD version (Costing £480-600) and a 9.7-inch OLED number, with the panel produced by LG.
It’s that panel that will reportedly delay the initial March 2010 plan for the Apple tablet until H2 2010 – even with the delay taken into account, sources claim that street cost for it will still be $2,000 (£1,200) – quite a sum to pay for something that might only run iPhone OS.
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The report doesn’t rule out 3G data tariffs from networks helping subsidise that cost for the Apple tablet mind, but regardless of cost, if you were hoping on getting a Cupertino slate soon, you may be sorely disappointed. We’ll shout up as soon as any more news on the Apple tablet rears its head.
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