Rampant speculation has overtaken the internet about Steve Jobs planned announcement on Monday. One thing seems pretty certain though - it will center around the iphone. Having opened up the phone to developers this past winter, the iphone is soon to be flush with new applications - rumored to be available for purchase directly from itunes and instantly downloaded to your phone. Cool? You know getting a new spreadsheet programmy as quick as that Rhianna ringtone is the very definition of cool yo.
What will Jobs announce when he ambles to the podium at the ultra geeky Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference on Monday? Will we get new colors, sizes, memory, batteries, syncing capabilities, a brand new service to replace .mac, builit-in GPS, running on a new wireless network? Who knows truly but one thing is for certain: Blackberry will be looking in their rearview mirror with this one.
Like a total dork I didn’t save half of this post but most of it was jokes involving long lines of geeks waiting outside the Apple store (and the smell of sexual desperation hanging heavy in the air) and the long delayed iwoman project said crew have been clamoring for.
Maybe it was best it didn’t make it in.
June 5, 2008 at 12:26 pmLarger hard drive is guaranteed - supposedly 16GB to start with a 32GB upgrade. Built in GPS is also assumed. Server support will be where they make their bones…
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June 5, 2008 at 12:29 pmThe sad thing is that I’m an executive for a competing carrier, and I get whatever free phones I want, and I *STILL* want to buy the new iPhone! At this point I think Steve Jobs can put shit on a stick, paint it white, put a $500 price tag on it and sell it like CRACK.
June 6, 2008 at 9:41 pmAnony - which, in my world, should make you feel really fucking stupid, but I bet it doesn’t.
June 7, 2008 at 4:26 amNope–doesn’t make *me* feel stupid one bit! I don’t really want an iPhone just for the sake of having one, but rather out of professional curiosity. I’m interested in how it will stack up against BlackBerry and Windows Mobile as a development platform. There are many in the mobile development community who see the iPhone as a “Trojan Horse” of sorts–people will buy it for music, videos and the web, but the real power lies in the applications it can run on it’s advanced hardware.
June 8, 2008 at 5:30 pmstraight from apple: Phone, iPod, Internet, and more.
Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do — again.
Drop in price as well.
Available (with ipod touch as well) in July. Should stack up well against the Blackberry.
June 9, 2008 at 5:07 pmWhere is info about iPod touch? Link please!
June 9, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Blackberry Enterprise Server support, built in GPS, and a bigger hard drive would be key. The bigger hard drive mainly so iPod Touch ver 2.0 can adopt it.
June 5, 2008 at 11:45 am