It's obviously fake with that "clouded" thing.. Apple is not going to make that.. in fact there are still lots of things which are fake in terms of the hardware published (those hardware familiar men can tell you)..

At least it serves more like a Mac, and slightly more portable than normal laptops including MacBooks. You can't use iWork on the iPhone to do your work, now can you ?

maybe you open your own shop?

its hard enough to keep track of the hundreds of casings for current iPod / iPhone. you want accessories for a product that was never sold in Malaysia ... that's not gonna happen.

I do sympathise with those who have iPod touch 1st gen, and the screen covers n casings are almost totally sold out. OTOH, production is limited... since the accessory makers are also worried that Apple will come out with a new model, they don't keep producing accessories after the product has been discontinued.

we have some iPod touch G1 & iPod nano G3 & G4 accessories on clearance in machines 1 Utama, for under RM100 ... do drop by and take a look...

support has ceased? , what are you talking about here, anyone with a first gen iphone with a valid ATT or o2 contract will still receive support, we are not talking about grey items here. Third party cases are not under apple's control, thats why they are called *Third party* aka alternative solution, please be realistic, no1 would keep making cases and screen protector for a product that is discontinued, how to make money like that, if there were only 20million iphone 2g ever made, do you make 100 million cases for that one year period and keep on making 5-10 million products annually and make losses? and heck humans are never contented they will never stick to one gadget for long maybe you do but people will always get something new, maybe not today but someday.
What support are you talking about here? service support? apple still offers this to first gen iphone owners and also the 3G. Everything about the iphone is non removable why are you comparing it with 3310? which has a totally removable parts? So do you want all the resellers to keep iphone service parts?
What are you blabbering about? form versus function? cmon no phone to date can match the iphone OS, its never about the hardware its all about the software, the app store and the support an the ease of use, hell if its about flash or camera i'd get a cheaper phone like SE that has 7MPX but would i get the same experience? no. To date all the three iphones has received similar software updates, can nokia or SE make sure all their line up of smartphone of yesteryears be able to install the latest symbian? no cause its a closed environment.

Come on.... We have a full section dedicated to iPhone "blabering" already.
A tablet is a computer, not a phone. Unless Apple planning to change that "again". That is until it's announced.

So let's not turn this thread into junk post. Or another fighting post.

Back to topic... I'm waiting for such product since the day I own my very first PowerBook. So yea, I would be the guy that might pre-order it, LOL. Call me crazy or what.

But looking at the reading I gather so far, Apple might going to launch it with some smashing services like AppStore to pull in more $ than selling hardware alone.

Imagine if Adobe could push out Photoshop Lite for free test. And the Photoshop paid version that will allow you to add in plug-in or feature along the way just like some games in Appstore... Well that might solve alot issue with conventional way of selling desktop app. We might even able to customize a single app to cater to our personal needs. Let say I won't need extra filters or effects, I will just keep the basic app.

If they include them as standard, maybe.

One thing I'm curious, why they offer iPhone OS instead of a stripped down Leopard 10.5.

I believe with Apple it is possible, they just don't want to waste too much resource on what they're able to do now. They're keeping it for the future product release.

Trust me, you'll see a tablet running Mac OS X soon.

to find an Apple owner in Malaysia is hard, to find an Apple owner who is owning more than one Apple device is even harder. Go figure on how this thing can sell in Malaysia. Among all their products, only MacBook White or MacBook Pro 13 are the most practical

quite disappointed by the pad. i thought snow leopard was design to optimize touchscreen interaction.

but now that thing just run something similar to iphone os. sad.

btw will there be apps similar to photoshop or illustrator coming out for the ipad?

do u guy think worth to buy ?? but no uSB port how to charge iphone or ipod ?? without usb port how i can transfer song or picture to ipad ??

Apple always do something for a reason. They just don't simply 'forget' to put in camera, usb and multi tasking. Come to think of it, you really don't need those stuff when you carry a iPad. The only things that matters are connectivity, the 3G. I think the iPad is targeted at existing iphone & mac users, another piece to complete the collections   .  and for only US$629 for the basic set with 3G, i think it's a good price. An alternative to carry to Starbucks to kill time

I don't understand why people claimed you cannot make call with an iPad?
Then... what's the use of the 3G model version? I am sure we can make calls (other than internet connectivity)...
It has a microphone and speaker... and what we need is only the application...

for people that live sleep fap with Apple logo, yes the price is just right
for realism people, they rather spend the money on highend netbooks or the upcoming HP Slate.
in this sense, iPad is like SmartforTwo, its expensive yet not delivering practical purposes. This is the impression of Apple people have so far.
1st u need to jailbreak it
2nd u need to find an authorized app which let you make calls on it

1st is likely to happen sometime later, 2nd is impossible