Apple Sends Invites for January 27 Media Event [Apple’s “Latest Creation”, the iSlate Tablet, to be Unveiled Soon]

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Apple has finally confirmed the media event that’s supposed to take place next Wednesday, January 27, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. We have reported on this before and it looks like the media event rumored turned out to be true. Does this mean that everything else will also be confirmed in a little while?

Apple sent out a colorful invitation which says “Come see our latest creation.” The event is scheduled for 10:00 AM PST and although we won’t be there in person, we will get you all the hot stuff about the “iSlate” or whatever its name is, next week.

Why am I so sure that the tablet will actually be presented? Well Apple is going to unveil its “latest creation.” That actually means that the product we’re about to see is neither an upgrade nor a refresh of something that Cupertino already has in store. So, logically speaking, the tablet must come out this month.

Apple has done its best to keep the upcoming tablet as hidden as possible. Nevertheless we have already heard various different rumors regarding its capabilities and some of them are probably going to get confirmed in a few days. Most importantly we can only hope that the tablet will be in store by March. Even if you hate Apple and anything related to it, you should also want to see the tablet out as fast as possible.

The competition will definitely follow with similar products after Apple launches its iSlate. So the faster Apple sells it, the faster Microsoft, and everyone else, will launch the Courier and other tablets.

Naturally alongside the new tablet we expect Apple to unveil iPhone OS 4.0 and make it available to all iPhone owners, but we’ll tell you more about that as soon as Steve Jobs makes it official too.