Wang and Tsai report that Apple will offer two tablet models, “one of which will have a 10.6-inch TFT LCD panel while the other will have a 9.7-inch OLED panel. LG Display currently is making OLED panels using its 4.5G production line and LG Display’s five-year US$500 million panel purchasing contract with Apple includes supply of OLED panels, the sources pointed out.”
The retail price of the 9.7-inch OLED panel model is said by DigiTimes’ sources to be around US$2,000. “The price could be more flexible if bundled with telecom providers’ 3G services,” Wang and Tsai report. “Meanwhile, the 10.6-inch LCD panel-based Apple tablet PC is expected to priced in the US$800-1,000 range.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I hope I can hang on until then. I’m getting older by the minute – Duh!
Three realities
1: Death
2: Taxes
3: Apple tablet ‘delayed’
Reasonably-informed people know that June always has been one possible release date for an Apple tablet, depending on the terms of the existing ATT contract. While a new tablet may or may not double as a cell phone, any successful tablet must have WiFi, an option for bundled cellular service and a few bundled media subscriptions (perhaps 2-3 daily newspapers and a magazine or two, for instance).
Why June? This is believed to be the expiration date of the ATT iPhone contract, but of course, this has never been verified. So, depending on the terms, the tablet could be offered as a Spring, early Summer or (back-to-school) Fall product.
As for two tablets? It is conceivable that Apple could produce an e-ink-only (grayscale-only) reader tablet AND an alternative, full-color (LCD or OLED) tablet, but the company would never produce similarly-sized, competing LCD-OLED tablets. Apple also could be developing an OLED alternative that is destined to become a generation two or three device that eventually (a year or two later) would be offered at the same price as the first-generation product.
It’s more likely that we’re just starting to hear many different rumors that somehow are inadvertently being folded together…
OLED is not a better technology. Just ask anyone with a ZuneHD. OLEDs, operating at their supposed energy efficient levels can only be read/seen in low light situations. The brighter the surroundings, the more power the device has to push through the screen in order for it to be read, thus ending it’s power efficiency.
Hey, the phone was rumor-vaporware, too, until it wasn’t.
Just wait.
‘Max Wang’ sounds more like the name of a Chinese porn star than a reporter.
There goes the imminence.
HAS everyone forgotten that OLED is flexible!?
Maybe Apple did hire Tommaso Gecchelin after all.
oh boy………
here is the deal…
there will only be one
its going to be 10″
and there will be an option to go OLED, but the screen size will be the same..
where do these analysts get their information?? they must be talking to chinamen in english again.
OLED has the capability to be better in every way than a standard LCD, it will jsut take some time to make an affordable OLED screen that is better, how does a million to one contrast ratio sound? its coming my friends
Apple’s got the device done. It’s been sitting in boxes in warehouses for 3 months. They’re still trying to manufacture a sufficient market for the thing, before they decide to fill another secret landfill with them (a la Lisa).
Arguing the merits of a product rumor, delayed?
Where are the wingnuts claiming the delay is the President’s fault?
Another delay! I’ve heard of these delays for 2yrs now. The good thing is that Job’s wont release a piece of c##p like all the other E-book and tablets be released now days. http://www.islate.org