This is the inevitable Apple Tablet post. Barring any last-minute explosion in Silicon Valley caused by the white-heat of tech journalist speculation, Apple should reveal their hitherto mythical Tablet device next week.

All the rumours seem to point to it running some form of iPhone operating system, and that iPhone OS 4.0 will be revealed (there’s a really good Gizmodo UI speculation article on this). But what’s really interesting me is how could a Tablet fit into Apple’s existing home setup, where iTunes is the media hub? And what this could mean for the iPhone?

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So the devkits have been explored, the interviews taken and the rumours integrated. It’s now a dead cert that video recording will hit the iPhone for its big 3.0 June re-launch. And that a basic ‘iMovie’ application will be there for splicing clips together.

“Big deal”, owners of other smartphones might think, “my phone has had high-resolution video recording for years”. And they’re right, I used a Nokia N93 to record my summer holiday in 2006 in full VGA resolution with stereo sound. It was sunny and it was glorious. 

But Apple are set to go one better and by doing what they do best – making things easy for users while staying away from the bleeding edge. Read the full story

Ahem. Steve Litchfield here. Yes, me, of 3-Lib and The Phones Show and All About Symbian notoriety. Matt Radford has been called away and it seems I’m next in line of succession here at All About iPhone to assemble this week’s best writing in mobile. My pleasure.

I wanted to emphasise a few things about All About iPhone before we get started though. Firstly, it’s not an iPhone news site – the plethora of cut and paste news sites around the world is already apparent. Here at All About iPhone, Matt, James and I provide (hopefully) thought-provoking insights, reviews and critiques, all relevant to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s all original content – think of it as your Friday morning coffee break read (there are usually 2 or 3 new articles each week). And please consider adding it to your RSS feeds or even linking in from your blog.

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