Apple to launch a new tablet / book-reader with an OLED display?

Smarthouse reports that Apple will soon launch a new tablet with a 10.6" display, made by LG Display. It will either be an OLED, or a LED-based LCD. The new tablet will double as an e-reader, competing with Amazon's new Kindle DX).

This is interesting. Amazon are using E Ink, which are efficient, readable in the sun, and easy on the eye - but a general tablet with an LCD has much more usages, and also color, of course.

So if you really want to read for a long time on your device, you better use a dedicated device. But Apple's new device might mean that e-readers will remain a small niche...