Report: Metrics company notes a Flurry of iSlate activity

by Stevie Smith - Jan 25 2010, 13:00

With gadget giant Apple widely expected to formally unveil a portable tablet computer (or iSlate) during an invitation-only media event this coming Wednesday, an online metrics firm is claiming to have already tracked the activity of existing iSlate units.

Relaying its findings to The New York Times, metrics specialist Flurry reported the much-rumoured tablet’s online existence after it detected the software signature of Apple’s device through applications carrying the company’s analytic coding.

According to a representative for Flurry, which licenses its tracking software to App developers for Apple’s iPhone, approximately 50 new test devices have appeared as of late – with all of them located exclusively on Apple’s campus in Cupertino.

Although contractually unable and to deliver details with regard to specific applications being put through their paces by the 50 mysterious machines, Flurry outlined that they carry a focus on what users can do during the downtime accrued during transit – which would certainly suggest a slice of fresh-faced mobile hardware.

“We saw a lot of testing of applications that deal with daily media consumption, like news, books, streaming music and radio,” commented the Flurry executive. “But we are also seeing so many social apps, like multiplayer games you can play with your friends.”

No doubt all be revealed this coming Wednesday, and then hopefully we can bring this latest bout of prolonged Apple-based ‘will they, won’t they’ histrionics to a long overdue close.

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