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Apple Tablet Described in Patent [Apple]
i.gizmodo.com - 2/4/2009
Apple Tablet Described in Patent [Apple]
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Hidden within the usual litany of claims in a patent awarded this January—titled "Display Housing for Computing Device", which covers their current portable displays—Apple describes a pure tablet device with radio communication: [0015]As a housing for a computer device, one embodiment of the ...
Apple patent shows possible design for upcoming Tablet PC/MID — Electronic Pulp
electronicpulp.net - 2/3/2009
Apple patent shows possible design for upcoming Tablet PC/MID — Electronic Pulp
— electronicpulp.net — Apple Tablet PC/MID patent On the last day of 2008, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington sparked a rumor about... Apple’s plans to unveil a “large sized iPod touch with a 7 or 9 inch screen” in the fall of 2009 that will be their very first tablet PC. ... (more) Apple patent shows possible design for upcoming Tablet ...

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TheAppleBlog — ... More Tablet Rumors Stirred Up By Patent Application - I’m on a roll, with two patent mentions in two days. This one’s about an Apple tablet, rumors of which will never die because the thing is so many Apple diehards’ most tantalising fantasy. It’s not hard to make a good one, as Axiotron knows, so I don’t know what’s stopping them. ...

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