“Apple Computer is readying two cellphone models that could launch at the company’s January 2007 MacWorld conference, according to a report by Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora,” Rachel Rosmarin reports for Forbes.
Rosmarin reports, “Tortora, who did not identify his sources, said ‘recent checks’ give him reason to believe Apple will begin selling a smartphone and a slim music phone. One of the phones will include wireless connectivity, but both phones will be manufactured first in small numbers, he said.”
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I’ll take two !!!
They’d better not be manufacturing in small numbers as every single person with an ipod will want one. I’m holding off getting a new phone on my contract so I can get an iphone and I’m not the only one.
Dang them confluences!
LIMITED NUMBERS!!….I can see the lines forming now at my local Apple store.
I hope the slimline one is iPod first, phone second. And I hope they just stick with the iPod name.
I’ll have seven
I am nearly a year past the end of my contract on my cellphone waiting for the iPhone. Don’t want to get stuck in another year or two contract, then the day after I sign, the iPhone is finally released. If this isn’t out in January… well, I just hope my phone lasts that long!
“One of the phones will include wireless connectivity . . .”
And the other will have a very, very long yet rugged and flexible cord. But neither will squirt like a Zune. Thankfully.
Must be a slow news day – anal-ysts recycling same old tired, nonstarter rumors.
does that mean biblical events, ie floods?
Bizarro Ballmer: To quote the great Dr. Peter Venkman, “…human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!”
Is Apple trying to move away from the PC? Personally, I think that the PC will be dead for the average consumer in another decade or so. Let’s face it, most folks use it for surfing and email, and not much else. Only professionals will truely require the tools of their trade, ie designers, office personel etc.. The move to “wireless computing” seems to be on the forefront. Is Apple moving too fast with all the hip consumer gadgets, risking ‘Apple fatique’ by the consumer, or do you think they are being visionary in that they are trying to get a foothold for what they percieve as the future of “tele-computing”?
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I think MDN got buffaloed by snow.
B.S. Report… Apple will NOT release two entirely different designs for its entry into the market… Furthermore, Apple does not “test” the market with it’s products.. They do things right the first time, that’s why they are rarely first to market with a product. Apple did it’s “testing” with motorola’s ROKR. Secondly, I’d bet my life that Apple won’t put a keyboard on a phone.. Way to cluttered for Apple’s simplistic design philosophy.
Is the PC (or Mac) going to be dead in ten years? I don’t think so. There is no way I’m going to store my sesitive data on some giant corporate server that I have no way of controlling. If I’ve learned anything from the last five years, it’s never trust anyone who say’s they’ll do the right thing. Because what they really mean is that they’ll do the right thing to make themselves a profit and/or hang on to power.
Do I have to mention names? I think we all know who I’m referring to.
Agree with Allen – I don’t think it would be characteristic of Apple to come out with two models of phone off the bat.
The keyboard iPhone (I hope they come up with a more original name) sounds more like wish fulfillment on the part of analysts. For one thing, the iPod OS doesn’t have full PDA features – such a PDA iPhone would have to have a completely new OS.
It’s possible, but unlikely. It makes more sense for Apple to release a single, simple model that is all iPod that also happens to be a great phone. Not a full-functioned PDA like the Motorol Q.
Please let it be a Cingular phone…I’m already p— off that Sprint’s got the monopoly on the ESPN Mobile service…
It will be simple. It will offer a new perspective on what is generally already out there.
It will please me.
I just wanted to share a handy tip….
If you use the control+mouse scroll combo you can zoom MDN in and push the distracting ads off the screen.
Enjoy….
for me to by an iphone it must have:
1. full keyboard
2. able to check multiple email accounts
3. voice and video record
4. able to take pictures.
5. itunes sync
thats the basic
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I want to see a click wheel wiget feature. Picture this…first pick the wigets you want on your phone (just like in Tiger) and you flip or rotate through them with click wheel (a little like the new iTunes album art). Then stop on the one you need…weather, sports score, movies at your local theather, snow report, drink recipes, etc, etc. They should be full screen and popping with color just like in Tiger. The network keeps them updated live so there is no waiting like on that crappy Blazer thing on my treo. It just sends the data to your wiget so you dont have to wait around for the images to load (the wiget shell is there already). That would be my idea of a useful smart phone. And how about facial picture as a roledex that spins through faces with the click wheel. I gotta dump my Treo 650 (too many resets).
Something for MS trolls to bite on:
“I don’t give a f*ck what it does or doesn’t have. Just so long as it has an Apple logo!”
As Allen said above: “Apple does not “test” the market with it’s products..They do things right the first time..”
Amen
Tossing my prediction into the ring…
1. “iPhone” will not be used. Apple will have a much cooler, monosyllabic, name.
2. It will be video-chat capable and iChat compatible. Remember, Apple applied for a patent for placing an image sensor behind a LCD screen; this makes it very Star Trek-ish. True video chat between phones and with Macs will be a huge leap in current telecommunications.
3. To spur rapid video phone sales, Apple will release a version of iChat for Windows, but due to XP/Vista’s lack of a Core Video and Core Animation abilities, it will not be able to do the mutli-person video conferencing that is available on Mac OS X. Note: all of the participants in a conference initiated by a Mac iChat user will be viewed by everyone on their phones.
THAT would be more like Apple’s way of doing things!!
I want one,
really like this yuotube clip