Greg In The Desert

From MacRumors, Kevin Rose says the Apple iPhone will be out in January.

• Going to be coming out in January
• All phone providers
• “It’s small as sh*t”
• Don’t know anything about the Operating System
• The OS is supposed to be “cool”
• Doing some unique things
• Two batteries, one charger. One for MP3 portion and one for Phone.
• 4GB ($249) and 8GB ($449)
• Flash memory, Slide out keyboard
• Maybe touch screen?

I think it will be called the iPod Phone (like iPod Nano, etc) and I will buy one.

MacWorld 2006 is right around the corner (Jan 9th – Jan 13th). Not a lot of detailed rumors out yet, lets take a look at what’s out there.

Think Secret says that there will be a Intel based iBook ready next week. I would have to say that’s true based on availability of the Yonha processor. I think that everything that could run the lowend processor will be released (read iMac, iBook & mini). Will there be more than that? I have some circumstantial evidence (that I can’t reveal) to suggest that there will be pro laptops. I hope there will be pro laptops, I had this 1GHz Powerbook for 3 years now and I’m very ready to get a new once. A fancy new Intel powered one.

Motorola’s Rokr E2 apparently won’t have iTunes built in. Very strange indeed, don’t you think? Was the original Rokr such a dismal failure that Apple-Motorolla gave up on it all together? I don’t think so. I think Motorola helped Apple design their next cell phone, which will totally be a Apple product and the Rokr was just getting their feet wet.

I’ll keep this updated as new rumors come in. Should be a good one!

Update 01/04/05 6:36 PM: Jason O’Grady has his top 10 things Apple could announce at MacWorld. First: Why doe he get a zdnet blog? Second: does he have some inside info? I’ve seen some rumor-ish like things at PowerPage before. He gives 50-1 odds on the Intel Powerbook but nothing for the iBook (though he does list it as a possibility). He also mentions that it will be first to be lacking a FireWire port.

Apple may be pushing USB because Intel invented it and includes it in their chipsets. Which makes it easy to put it in everything with Intel inside. However I doubt they would dump it all together, hopefully not anyhow.

Update 01/05/06 11:42AM: Oopsie! Looks like Apple let iLife ‘06 slip by putting a web page up with links to it. Included in iLife ‘06 is a program call iWeb. What could iWeb be? A Bloggin application? MacRumors has all the dirt along with a screen shot.

Update 01/05/06 6:50PM: More info on iWeb or Webpages 1.0 from Appleinsider. Looks like it could be some sort of general web page program. Check out NSLog’s “guess”.

Question: What is ‘iWeb?’ My Answer: I don’t know. Or at least that’s my official response. If I were to guess and have some fun with it, I’d suggest that it’s a tool that ties into .Mac and iTunes and Safari and iPhoto and iMovie. iDVD, sadly, will not have much to do with it. But hey, that’s “just a guess.”

Update 01/06/05 8:00PM: What’s the hell? PowerPage now has some juicy rumors that Apple will release ViiV enabled 42″ & 50″ plasmas displays. Sounds like built in DVRs in big ass monitors. Dam I wish I hadn’t bought this 60″ Sony. No wait, I’m not sorry.

Update 01/05/05 10:46AM: I found the following message on my .Mac homepage.

.Mac will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM PST on 1/10/06. All .Mac services will be affected. We apologize for the inconvenience. Last Updated: 1/6/06

This sounds like a defininte .mac related anouncement is coming to MacWorld.

Update 01/09/06 11:59PM: Perhaps the last bit of rumors before the big event, Kevin Rose posts

I’ve heard: 15″ intel Macbook – order tomorrow, ships Feb (thinner, dual core) iPod FM receiveriWork/Life ‘06 New remote of some type Photocasting (iPhoto) OS X.4.4 w/new widgets