How big are cell phone parts?
Re: iPod
I think we could figure out roughly what features would be included if we knew approximately how big the cell phone parts in the iPhone were.
Would the cell phone functionality take up as much space as the difference between an 8GB flash drive and an 100GB hard drive? What about the wireless card?
I wouldn't be (particularly) interested in watching movies on the "full screen" iPod, but I'd be very interested in using to surf around the net, check emails, etc while at home.
Re: Tablet
I'd be curious to see what they come up with. It sounds to me like if they are using the "mini" OS X, this would be unlike any tablet PC we've seen. It would be more along the lines of an oversized iPhone than a full-fledged PC that just happens to have a touchscreen.
I like that idea.
Why would you need to run all the apps available in OS X for a tablet? For the education market, this would be something you carry along to class, not a desktop replacement. This also explains the docking station. You take it home, plug it in, and it syncs your notes up.
This would also probably keep the costs down. It wouldn't need super fast processors, fast audio/video cards, DVD drive, keyboard, trackpad.
The form factor would be curious. I'd expect it to be much smaller than current tablets. I'd also hope it would be mostly operable by fingers (a la iPhone), but I imagine it would need a stylus of some sort to input text. (Typing notes for 3 hours would be excruciating on a flat touchscreen.)