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This Week in Apple Tablet Rumors

22.01.2010
Why dwell on AT&T's and Verizon's supposed support of Apple's tablet when there are so many other rumors to choose from? With less than a week to go until -- or by some stretch of the imagination does not reveal -- its tablet device, rumors have predictably , no longer focusing on the whens and ifs of the tablet, but what it will include and how.

So here's a handy guide to everything we've heard this week. When Steve Jobs gets on stage at a press event on January 27, you can print this out and keep score at home:

Design

that the Apple tablet is a 10-inch device that looks a lot like , except more like the iPhone. That means it'll have a home button, volume rocker, speakers and a 30-pin dock connector, or two . It'll be thinner than the original iPhone and sport a unibody aluminum shell, say the usual "people familiar with the device."

Internals

3G and GPS are on board, , and the tablet's wireless radio stripe is long enough to accommodate 802.11n. Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm the Envisioneering Group, Apple is targeting multi-core ARM processors for the tablet but may opt for single core in the first generation, but that's more speculation than rumor. Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar agrees that there .