Engadget’s Clearest Tablet Picture So Far Shows Camera
10:26 am, January 27th, 2010, Leander Kahney
Engadget has just published another picture of the tablet prototype, which clearly shows a forward-facing camera. Earlier rumors, which weren’t very plausible, said the tablet wouldn’t have a camera.
The latest spy shot (if it’s real) also clearly shows the size. That’s an iPhone in the corner, and by the looks of it, the tablet’s screen is larger than 10-inches. (The iPhone may also be a prototype: it has a black bezel, like the tablet).
The tablet’s bezel looks pretty deep. Not one of the myriad mockups floating around the internet envisioned such a beefy bezel.
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I believe the iPhone has some case on it rather than a black bezel but i can be wrong too..
Moreover, it’s not the tablet bezel that’s deep, the thing is placed in something else to keep it at place.
Sayam Aggarwal, on January 27th, 2010 at 10:36 am
The phone could had a case on it and the bezel on the tablet will be for dev only not the finished product!! Not very Apple like, maybe Jon Ive was off sick that day!.
MKJ, on January 27th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Not exactly sure how you’re interpreting those images. There may be a camera there at the top of the image, but I certainly wouldn’t say that it’s clear. Could just be a speaker.
And the bezel? You can’t even see much of it. You’re not thinking that the whole black thing with bolts in it is the bezel, are you? Because that’s clearly a frame placed over the tablet in order to allow it to be bolted to the table. Custom-built obviously with cutouts to allow access to the home button and the camera/speaker/whatever at the top, as well as ports on the side.
Bob, on January 27th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Leander ….. What drugs are you taking ?
‘cos they are ruining your Eyesight and they are giving you the ability to see things that are clearly not there.
joe, on January 27th, 2010 at 10:51 am
It could also be an older ipod touch. Doubtful, but possible. The original touch had a charcoal grey bezel.
nejohnso, on January 27th, 2010 at 10:55 am
Apple would be better served improving the design and build quality of their products. It wouldn’t hurt for them to at least pay lip-service to improving their piss-poor customer service instead of trying to impress people with gimmicks. The global market for tablets is less than $3 billion and I personally am hoping that whatever they launch is a disaster and then maybe Jobs might concentrate on designing machines that work and having said machines built somewhere other than sweat-shops in China where quite frankly they couldn’t give a toss about safety, build quality or brand reputation. Apple lost their way the last 5 years and it sucks!
chriss jones, on January 27th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Am i the only person who thinks the edge to the tablet is just a hard cast to stop it getting damaged??
you can see the deep cuts in the side for plugging in wires etc…
if it was to be removed it would most likely look like the pics that have been floating around!!
Chris, on January 27th, 2010 at 11:21 am
FAKE!
Would Apple build 3:4 format tablet? It’s an old laptop screen.
Hansen, on January 27th, 2010 at 11:29 am
This is obviously the real deal. Techcrunch had the same image up and within an hour or so the post was removed. The large bezel casing that is bolted around the tablet is an obvious protection for the identity of the tablet and as an apple product so that it could be tested by developers before its final release without compromising the surprise unveiling. I’m sure we will see the exact same product this afternoon without the gigantic bezel/case surrounding it.
Scott Hardman, on January 27th, 2010 at 11:52 am
@Hansen
It’s clearly not an old laptop screen but it’s also clearly not anything that Mac are putting out.
There is no way that Apple are going to launch a lump of anything as ugly that anytime today.
my guess is the mac-fan-boy leander is going to look pretty stupid later on today.
chriss jones, on January 27th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
…
Earlier rumors, which weren’t very plausible, said the tablet wouldn’t have a camera.
J. Gruber didn’t wrote that it has no camera, he wrote that people told him so.
Or …
Deocliciano Okssipin Vieira, on January 27th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Well, the images were dead-on accurate…that’s an iPad bolted to a table. No camera either.
Bob, on January 27th, 2010 at 5:51 pm