Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/11/islate_orange/
Orange exec busts opens iSlate kimono
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Posted in Hardware, 11th January 2010 17:32 GMT
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Apple’s long rumoured iSlate will launch within days, an Orange France exec says.
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In an interview with Europe 1 [2] Stephane Richard, deputy CEO at Orange France, suggests he knows a fair bit about the gadget’s features and due date.
Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, the "French equivalent [3] of David Dimbleby or Jeremy Paxman", asks: “According to weekly Le Point, in a couple of days Apple will be launching a tablet computer with a webcam."
Richard: “Yes.”
Elkabbach: “Are Orange customers going to be able to enjoy it?”
Richard: “Of course!”
The translation is accurate enough, but don't read too much into it: Richard's answers are terse, to say the least.
Apple has never confirmed the existence of a tablet Mac, but it is expected to announce the device in San Francisco on January 27.
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Props to the French blog Nowhere Else [4] for alerting us to this story.
Links
- http://www.adobe.com
- http://www.europe1.fr/Info/Actualite-Economie-et-Societe/Consommation/iSlate-Orange-grille-la-politesse-a-Apple/%28gid%29/262529
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/01/a_french_orange_and_an_apple_t.html
- http://www.nowhereelse.fr/tablette-apple-confirmee-par-orange-stephane-richard-28176/