It's on.

[Paul Daniel Ash]

Official confirmation that Apple will be announcing a new product on January 27 has finally come: Engadget reports that Apple has begun sending out invitations for 10:00 in the morning at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Although there is no information as to what the event will be for, expectations are pretty much universal that Apple will announce its new tablet a week from Wednesday, and that it will begin shipping in a few months.

It had been revealed last month that Apple had reserved the downtown arts center for several days next week. Initial speculation was that the announcement would be made on January 26, but The Wall Street Journal's Jon Paczkowski said at the beginning of this month that his sources said that the date had been fixed as January 27, a week from Wednesday. Apple had often made new product announcements on Tuesdays, but broke that mold last year when it scheduled the "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" event on Wednesday, September 9.

Last month, the Silicon Valley Insider's business page shared reports that developers had been asked to provide larger-sized demos of their apps for a 10-inch tablet screen. The French site Mac4Ever reported that the new iPhone SDK included a sort of "simulator" enabling devs to easily port their apps from the iPhone's screen to a larger screen. Also expected at this even is the announcement of iPhone OS 4.0, which will be the operating system used on the new device.

Most sources predict that the tablet will begin shipping in March.

image via Engadget

[battlecrushr]

Awesome

[zinjen]

Not so interested in the Tablet, but very much interested on iPhone 4G news

[alz0rz]

What other new product could they announce?

[lolcats1]

Engadget reports that Apple has begun sending out invitations for 10:00 in the morning at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Although there is no information as to what the event will be for,

lol, this is some mad speculation. so, it's a rumor of a rumor that has no info, nice

[ianbroste]

What makes this interesting is that usually they include some sort of hint about what the event will be about in the invitation.

[niceshades]

the tablet would be so much better if they were to run snow leopard on it... who wants a giant iphone? pft

[iLaw-One]

Tell me more about iphone 4G then I'll be interested.....not that I won't buy the tablet though...just saying

[EddieLeonard]

if this iphone is any better than the 3gs that makes it a good reason to upgrade then i might not go for the nexus one when my contract ends

[GTOpilot]

Pricing will be interesting. The strongest rumors were initally $600, then $1000 then $600 again and now $1000.

Apple could sell tons of these at $600. At $1000 it might be a stretch unless it offers so much more than has been mentioned so far.

At $600 I'm in line opening day. At $1000 I might never get one unless it does something mind-blowing.

[EddieLeonard]

i wonder what there gonna call the iphone 4g any way

iphone 3GES (ES = Extra Speed)? lol 3g(e)s :P
iphone 4G???

[StealthBravo]

Macbook Pro Touch

[southfrisco]

the tablet would be so much better if they were to run snow leopard on it... who wants a giant iphone? pft

Bigger is the new small and thicker is the new thin. Supersize McD fries are coming back too! *

* All details are rumored and any factual information is merely coincidental.

[xwinger]

awesome i got an invite



i wish

[GENERATI0N]

I was hoping to run osx not iPhone 4.0

[Dara]

I just soiled myself!

[nitin98]

I hope it's true

[Melech518]

Macbook Pro Touch

I would crap my pants and buy 2 of them!

[StealthBravo]

I would crap my pants and buy 2 of them!

and a new pair of pants

[Melech518]

haha, yeah I would need those as well