Apple Tablet Looks Like First-Gen iPhone?

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Last time we spoke about the iPhone on steroids Apple tablet we referred more to the OS that’s going to bring everything to life inside the machine than to actual design features. Sure we had the supposed leaked picture of the tablet’s case but that picture still needs to be confirmed.

Truth being said, I wasn’t expecting the tablet to be a 100% iPhone replica. Whenever rumors said that the tablet was going to be similar to the iPhone I simply thought that any square-shaped tablet with rounded corners and a touchscreen will basically look like an iPhone. But it seems that the tablet will indeed be exactly like an iPhone and although boring to some, the already famous design could make the new device very popular among iPhone fans.

Recent rumors say that the tablet will look like a first-generation iPhone. The iSlate / iPad / iTablet will feature a thin aluminum unibody, which isn’t really surprising, and all the original buttons found on the iPhone: the home button, the volume toggle and probably the on/off switch too. Now I don’t really know if we will really need all those buttons in the first place. After all we will have lots of virtual buttons to play with, won’t we?

Other iPhone design features will also be included: 3.5mm stereo headphone jack , built-in speaker grills, microphone and a 30-pin dock connector. The 10-inch touchscreen display will be surrounded by the black border we’ve gotten used to already and wrapped around it we’ll find an aluminum enclosure.

With a little under a week to go until Apple launches the tablet we have lots of rumors to think about. Some of them will turn out true but since it’s impossible for everything that was written about the tablet to be right, we will also be a little disappointed as the first-gen tablet gets unveiled. I am not saying the tablet won’t be a hit product because it’s very likely that it will. At this point I am just concluding that with each day that goes by we build more and more expectations regarding a device that could prove to be the best gadget of 2010.

Will you buy an Apple tablet this year?

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