After weeks of rumours it seems Apple have finally come out and officially announced it will be staging an event on Wednesday Jan 27th at 10am PST. It will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco. For us UK peeps this will be at 6pm, so make sure you get home from work sharpish! The event has been labeled ‘Come see our latest creation’. This is the biggest indicator yet that Apple will be showing it’s iSlate Tablet device, the first new product since the iPhone debuted at Macworld 2007. So what can we expect? Well so far the strongest rumours suggest…

• 10-inch Touch Sensitive Display
• Runs custom ‘Tablet OS’ a mixture of iPhone OS and Mac OS X
• Tablet Apps on AppStore – Custom made for bigger screen
• Subscription based Digital Content such as the New York Times delivered to Tablet
• SIM Card Slot for 3G Mobile Broadband Connectivity

Steve Jobs himself is supposedly ‘very happy’ with the device, this after he actually dismissed Tablet PCs in 2008 claiming they were ‘only good for browsing the web on the can’ Does this mean Apple have something special on the cards? Are all them patents purporting ways of giving touchscreen keyboards more tactile feedback going to come to fruition? I certainly hope so.