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iWalk

Timothy

I think your right...that might just be a case. My bad.

maybe you can help with this ?. The bootup.mov shows his hand turn the dial to flip the screen and then his hand goes off screen then it comes bakc on to press a button. Doesn't that seem wierd to you? i would think after turning the dial the hand would just go down and press the button. Not go off screen and come back to press it. Unless he simply forgot to push it.

 
Re: when are they gonna update their page?

Originally posted by AppleJunkie
when is Apple gonna update their front page? Anyone?
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Apple has been updating the graphics at 3:00AM Eastern time.
 

One thing that makes the Bootup video seem authentic is that the toolbar takes a second to move to the proper orientation.

arn
 
Re: Re: when are they gonna update their page?

Originally posted by i_should_register
Originally posted by AppleJunkie
when is Apple gonna update their front page? Anyone?
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Apple has been updating the graphics at 3:00AM Eastern time.
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Exactly, midnight pacific time ... or midnight in Cupertino!!!! if you prefer! 🙂
 
delayed "buttons"

On the bootup screen...a small detail that I think supports "real" is that the "buttons" show up after a slight delay...this, too, was what my Newton did. I could "rearrange" my buttons, and this caused it to appear slightly later.

A small detail, but if they faked this, kudos to looking to small details. Most people would have been happy to composite the buttons and the button strip at the same time...

regarding the hand leaving the frame...doesn't bother me. I think it could be that he is new with the unit, and forgot that to get the orientation to switch, you have to push the button after you turn the dial.
 
Fake

1. Doesn't move when it's on. You can see the screen only when it's stationary.

2. After ipod Apple would never use such a monster of a scroll wheel. That is a dead give away to me.

3. Apple has a few times flatly denied any pda coming out.

I must admit I did get exited at first and started to think where the hell am i going to get the $ to get one.
After reading peoples views.

It's definetly a fake.
 
iwalk text doesn't move

After about twenty minutes of studying the pixel distance between the handwritting and the edge of the unit I have found that the "iwalk" handwritting doesn't move. It only moves slightly with the unit. Optical illusion. Nothing more.
 
the real scoop...

ok I'm betting it's a fake...

but how about this:

the flat panel imac will have a 17" screen.
(you heard it here first...)
 
if apple.com

says anything about walking then I'm convinced. I think the video is shaky, but I'm starting to believe a little more this might be real.

i saw jacks for a mic and a headset. if this has the ability to understand speech and play music off your ipod that would be very cool.
 
Screen does move...

Julz...

If you watch the "say hello" movie, you'll see that the screen elements do move slightly when the unit is shifted. The screen elements, to my eye, move in perfect unison with the unit.

Regarding the "dial"...of course, this would have to have been in development and production prior to the release of the iPod...not much time to make changes based on iPod feedback.
 
skeptical...

Those pics are pretty real looking I must say. The videos do leave a bit to the imagination I suppose. In the sayhello movie, the desk does move unaturally. It's too bad nobody can read what the FCC information says on the back of the unit in the turnaround movie. And the dial has a delayed movement to the guy's thumb in the bootup movie. If it weren't for those few flaws, I would be completely sold. Still, funny how the pics are still up on the site....u know Apple has got to have people around the clock watching out for stuff just like this!
 
It's Fake For Sure

Whoever did this, did it real well. My palms were sweaty and all sorts of stuff but then I started reading the posts about jumpy text and such so i decided to put the movie "sayhello" in full screen mode and guess what? It looks like they put a green screen or something in the iWalk "screen" and pasted the movie on later. Sorry but it's fake.
 
Apple PDA

Apple is planning to release a PDA. But I was told it would be around third quarter 2004. A G5 and a mega-wide screen iMac are probably the only new products here. Plus iPicture, which is either an internet service or a digital photo viewer capable of holding data the way iPod does. By the way, Steve Jobs did buy several patents for one of those gyro-scooters (Segway) about 1 year ago.
 
That's what I mean..."all those little abbreviations and patent number-type things that you can see pretty clearly on the back"....they appear to be printed in black and not molded or etched into the unit itself, which leads me to believe this thing can't be for real (besides all the other stuff pointed out). The black is aesthetically un-Apple like especially when paired white the quicksilver/clear/snow enclosures. Plus it would eventually flake off, unless it is protected by a layer of polymer or whatever. Still, it's a pretty awesome, and very thought provoking mock-up. Showing off little details like the patent numbers etc. gives it more believability, but Spymac didn't quite pull that one off in my eyes. Also, I don't know why the older circular power brick is figured so prominently in the stills and the movies...surely the so-called "iWalk" would have an iPod like one. Just by visually associating the mock-up with a real Apple product is another ploy. If it were real, it would stand by itself on it's own without that type of visual cue.
 
camera is moving...

by the way, I now think the "camera" is moving, and not the iWalk in the "say hello" movie.

I still think there is nothing to show a "fake" that you can gather from this movie.
 
Re: Apple PDA

Originally posted by latalian
Apple is planning to release a PDA. But I was told it would be around third quarter 2004. A G5 and a mega-wide screen iMac are probably the only new products here. Plus iPicture, which is either an internet service or a digital photo viewer capable of holding data the way iPod does. By the way, Steve Jobs did buy several patents for one of those gyro-scooters (Segway) about 1 year ago.
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There is no way in hell that Motorolla has the G5 ready yet. Thir most optimistic estimate was Feb. 2002. Knowing that mot is almost always late, how could a G5 be ready any time soon? Expect faster G4s, probably just under 1ghz.
 
you're not wrong

that's a lame application of a motion tracker, probably after effects....

sorry....
 

Here's the big question...

They view a webpage on the iWalk.... however - there is no modem or ethernet port....

Therefore the only way would be if there was an airport built in...

arn
 
It's a fake - a good one, but still a fake

I am completely convinced that this is a fake. Here's why:

- Apple does not overbrand its products. The "iWalk" is labeled iWalk on the back, there's an Apple logo here there and everywhere, when the iWalk "boots up" it has the apple logo then underneath it says "Apple iWalk" AGAIN! Since when have you seen an Apple product with the Apple logo (one of the most recognisable logos around) and then the word "Apple" written underneath?

- The OS is very non-apple looking. After Apple's revolutionary Aqua interface, why would they take a step back towards the ugly OS featured in the videos??

- Why would you need a wheel with an apple logo to rotate the display 90 degrees. Apple has always been famous for good design - that wheel thing with the apple logo on it is ugly. There is no way that we'd see that ugly wheel thing at MWSF

- The iWalk - why? If apple was to make a PDA, I'm sure they'd incorporate "Newton" into the naming. Why the iWalk? Apple's marketing team would certaintly not come up with a name so stupid

- Apple legal would have seen this and killed spymac.com - Spymac.com have been talking about this mysterious iWalk device for a long time now, just look at their archives. I'm sure there's someone at apple trying to prevent leaks and keeping a *very* close eye on product rumors. spymac.com would be down today if the iWalk was true

- The video evidence is a load of $#!+. Why have *just* video + some additional bad quality photos? If this was real, they would have got a state-of-the-art digital camera and loads of pictures of it from different angles. All the videos and photos are shot with a really bad camera in really bad light. If this device was genuine, there'd be better evidence.

My 2cents,

j763

[Edited by j763 on 01-03-2002 at 08:49 AM]
 
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