It’s taken years to materialize, but the mythical Apple Tablet computer is finally here. Along the way, Apple started (and is on the way to winning) a smartphone business, and sold more Macs and iPods than ever before. Over the last few months, weeks and days, the speculation and rumours came thick and fast. The result? Meet the Apple iPad. It has a funny name and it’s priced cheaper than you think. I think that we probably have equal number of people who are excited and disappointed by it.

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Save the date : Wednesday 27th January. Exactly one week from now, Apple is holding an event to launch or announce … something. Since Apple is not in Macworld this year, they didn’t have to rush things out so early in the year. So what will we see next week?
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Google certainly made a splash with their launch of the newest Android phone, the Google Nexus One. Google made the phone available for sale unlocked directly from them, at google.com/phone. Google explained their different approach to selling the phone on their own blog, saying that they “want to make the overall user experience simple: a simple purchasing process, simple service plans from operators, simple and worry-free delivery and start-up.”
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The folks at Palm have kept busy over the holiday period. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), they have unveiled :
- new smartphones (Palm Pixi Plus and Palm Pre Plus)
- new apps and software features (video capture and editing, Flash 10.1)
- new carriers / mobile operators (Verizon in the US and SFR in France)
- Palm developer program now official, moving out of beta
- 3D games on webOS
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