For those that can’t wait until the iPad actually launches or gets a camera, pre-orders will begin tomorrow morning at 8:30ET (or 5:30am Pacific). Once those hours slip by, you can purchase your very own 9.7″ tablet from the Apple online store with ease.
Apple recently sent out invitations for a mysterious January 27 announcement at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Most people, including myself, assumed it was the Apple tablet.
See that? That’s the invitation sent by Apple an hour ago to some in the press and for an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco at 10AM. We can’t be there this time, but we’ll link to a liveblog for your reference the day before.
Most predict that it will finally be the launch of the rumored Apple tablet, but there’s a chance it might be 22″ touchscreen iMacs, or another iPhone – it’s all shrouded in mystery.
Update: Looking at this closer, the border looks kind of like a tablet, and the paint is not finger-painting, it’s spray-paint with an Apple logo at the center. It looks like it’s the back of the Apple tablet, which would be in several colors – meaning customizing it might be huge. Does that mean the end of jailbreaking?
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