News Flash: Apple Special Event Planned 1st Week in July

[G5Unit]

Why would they bring out new iPods? The current ones are fine if you ask me. If they make them any smaller, people will misplace them. This is coming from a 1st gen iPod owner by the way.

 

[CubaTBird]

yes i never thought about that iTunes phone thing... that could be a serious possibilty.. don't forget that one too.. 😉

 

[Nuc]

I second that.

verizon always gets the crappy phones 🙄

Verizon needs to get with the program. They have the worst selection of phones period!!!! They still have phones that I used 3 years ago except with a face lift or two. I mean get some cool phones!! Two bad I always sign up for 2 year contracts....

Nuc

 

[CubaTBird]

the thing with cell phones... like i got mine two months ago.. and if you go to cingulars site now.. they don't even have it offered with a plan.. its been replaced lol.. i swear.. cell phones are super dynamic.. you can never have the "latest" one.

 

[redeye be]

No, because it was announced in the spring, not released. I could be wrong.

This French site is reporting the Motorola phone will also be unveiled. Translation please.

Key points:

According to the article the iPhone (code name: key largo), based on the Motorola E398, will be introduced next tuesday. With shipping starting on the 4th of july.
At least one US provider -not named- will support buying songs via the phone. The price will be the same 0.99.
The iPhone will have 512 Mb worth of storage for your tunes. A harddisk version would be in the make to be released beginning of 2006 with approx. 5 Gb of space.

edit: oh, and it will be ivory white 😉
edit2: i love bolding 😀

Cheers

 

[iMeowbot]

Accessories appear to be on the way. New Apple trademark applications for iPod:

A full line of holders, straps, armbands, lanyards, and clips for portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, audio, image, and video files in Class 22

a full line of clothing, footwear, and headwear

a full line of electronic and mechanical accessories and computer software for portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, audio, image, and video files; docking stations; stands; battery chargers; battery packs; electrical connectors, wires, cables, and adaptors; wired and wireless remote controls; headphones and earphones; stereo amplifier and speaker base stations; automobile stereo adapters; audio recorders; radio receivers; radio transmitters; image scanners; video viewers; media readers; computer application software for recording and organizing calendars and schedules, to-do lists, and contact information; computer game software; computer software for clock and alarm clock functionality; carrying cases, sacks, and bags, all for use with portable and handheld digital electronic devices for recording, organizing, transmitting, manipulating, and reviewing text, data, audio, image, and video files in Class 9

(Maybe more interesting than iPod hats is the repeated mention of video.)

 

[fox2005]

finally the doubble core powerbook g5 or intel, and it is on a tuesday...

 

[zap2]

a 512mb would be cool on the phone, but i like to have all my songs, so until we get a 2gb( only have a few songs) on a phone, im with a normal iPod. I would love to see a 5th gen

 

[Abstract]

I vote iTunes 4.9 and new iPods along with everyone else

but I'll raise you the iTunes Motorola phone...

Yep, I was thinking the same thing.

- Motorola with iTunes software (not a big deal, IMO).
- iPod update: The 4G iPods are replaced with the iPods that show photos, and the high end iPods are now iPods with the capability to show both photos and video. The ability to hook up a digital camera to your iPod will also be standard on the high end Video iPod. The iPod photo will not have this feature. However, the iPod Photos will now have the same price point as the current 4G iPod.


Also remember that Apple said that they'll have Intel Macs on the market by this time next year (he said this at the beginning of June at WWDC), so by June 2006, they should be on the market. However, this doesn't mean that they won't be out well before June, so I guess SJ could announce that the Intel Macs will be out by Nov/Dec, and that they're reducing all prices of current Macs by 25% to get rid of old stock until the new Intel Macs come out in Nov.

 

[Westside guy]

I don't think Intel Macs are completely out of the question. I know it would surprise everyone, including me, but it fits. Jobs doesn't want to not make his promise of in the marketplace by WWDC 2006, so I'm sure he's giving himself plenty of room for error.

Somehow I don't think Apple's going to release a computer that you CAN'T GET ANY NATIVE SOFTWARE FOR!!! 😀

I doubt that Jobs wants most peoples' first impressions of the new Mactels, when they do come out, to be "boy these are dog slow" - and that's what'd happen if everything was having to go through Rosetta.

There's a reason he gave the developers a years' warning. Despite what you read on this forum, it's not going to be a trivial job for most software houses to move their products over to x86. They'll easily need that year. I'm sure Adobe and Microsoft will be done well ahead of that time; but they've got lots of people to throw at the problem.

 

[Natron]

The 4G iPods are replaced with the iPods that show photos, and the high end iPods are now iPods with the capability to show both photos and video.

I would highly doubt this would happen. A few months ago, rumors were that Apple wanted to streamline the iPod line (aka drop a model). Well, they got rid of the 40GB, and I think this will be the end of the 20GB. No way will they keep 2 models of full size iPods, especially not where the only difference is Photo and Video. From what I understand, the current iPod Photo contains the ability to play movies, it's just not enabled. Going with what you said, the iPod Photo would basically be an iPod Video with video disabled.

 

[alexeismertin]

3 weeks that could change everything

but knowing Apple very little will change, but here's hope.......

July Week 1: Necc starts (after the weekend)

July Week 2: Apple announcing products upto & including 7th July

July Week 3: Macworld Boston (11th-14th)


By the way doesn't everybody have an ipod by now? Every Chav, Yokel & his dog on a string has one these days..

Perhaps Apple have accepted losing sales during the intel transfer window so decided to go with what they know & do best .. iPOD

(5G ipods 20gb / 40gb / 80gb / colour screen / white & aluminium)

 

[Alasta]

itunes 4.9 with australian store?
it sure is taking a long time.. 😉

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to suggest this!

There are probably plenty of people thinking this will happen. I fear that we may be in for yet another disappointment, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility. After all, we know that Apple came very close to launching it about 2 - 3 months ago, and the only thing holding it back was Apple's inability to reach an agreement with one particular record label. They must be pretty close to having it sorted by now.

 

[Alasta]

Also remember that Apple said that they'll have Intel Macs on the market by this time next year (he said this at the beginning of June at WWDC), so by June 2006, they should be on the market. However, this doesn't mean that they won't be out well before June, so I guess SJ could announce that the Intel Macs will be out by Nov/Dec, and that they're reducing all prices of current Macs by 25% to get rid of old stock until the new Intel Macs come out in Nov.

We'd all love to see this but, frankly, it's wishful thinking.

I think we may see a significant update to restore confidence in the PPC product and divert users' attention away from the Intel announcement. The iMac and PowerMac were recently updated, and I don't think the Powerbook will be updated until Freescale's 7448 is in production. This leads me to believe that the iBook is the most likely, but anything is possible.

 

[jefhatfield]

Panther was released on my birthday 😉

oh my god, kainjow, it's amazing to see a really oldtime macrumors.com member here 🙂

i just saw, and responded to a post from true777 and i think i have seen michaelrjohnson, both 2000 members here, too

 

[aricher]

If it is an iPhone Cingular is a no-brainer parter. Motorolla already has an exclusive contract in the US for Moto's Razr phone and used to have the exclusive on the V600. Here's to a new iPhone next week to replace my V600 - only if the fom factor is skinny, sleek and fully sycs with my PB.

 

[sw1tcher]

I don't think Intel Macs are completely out of the question. I know it would surprise everyone, including me, but it fits. Jobs doesn't want to not make his promise of in the marketplace by WWDC 2006, so I'm sure he's giving himself plenty of room for error.

Macintels are definitely out of the question right now. Not gonna happen until next year. Developers have barely gotten ahold of their Dev kits. They need to be given time to re-write their apps so that they'll run natively on the Macintels.

They'll most likely be announced/released during MWSF 2006.

 

[sethypoo]

Wow, this would be very cool. I've been waiting for new iPods; I hope they put out 2GB iPod Shuffles.

I wonder if the Moto Razr has any hidden features? 😕 😀

 

[rdowns]

The Dashboard widget can only translate a couple lines at a time. 🙄

Here's the Sherlock translation:

After the success of the iPod, number one of the walkmans of numerical music sold to 15,5 million units in the world, Steve Jobs, president d' Apple, and its counterpart and friend of Motorola, ED Zander, will launch Tuesday the iPhone. This mobile telephone, in the name of code "Key Largo", will have the form of the E398 model from Motorola. It is equipped with the software iTunes of APPLE, adapted for a portable. Color white ivory, like the first iPods, it will be marketed as of July 4, birthday day of the independence of the United States. The first version will be able to record a hundred songs.

Perhaps this apparatus will make it possible to make take off the market of the downloading of music on a mobile telephone. The numerical function of photography was already democratized using the portables. The industrialists and the majors of the music hope to renew this exploit in the music. APPLE signed for the moment one cooperation agreement with its Motorola compatriot for his software iTunes which popularized the use of its numerical walkmans.

An American operator agreed to market the iPhone. Its subscribers will be able to directly download a piece of music on the site iTunes of APPLE. The firm with apple sells each song 99 hundreds when the
operators market usually their music between 2 and 3 euros. This portable is thus likely to reduce their margins and to cause an outcry.

To launch the iPhone, Steve Jobs took its stick of pilgrim in order to convince of the operators of mobile telephony. But little of them agreed to launch out in the adventure and to yield in the conditions of APPLE. In France, Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom did not decide yet to open their network with the apparatus concocté by APPLE and Motorola. SFR, subsidiary of Vivendi Universal and Vodafone, shows strongest resistance to the iPhone. SFR has just concluded a licensing agreement with NRJ to propose the service NRJ Mobile which aims in priority the sale of music near the young people. Steve Jobs had had more success, before the launching of the iPod, in 2001, by obtaining to the agreement of majors of the disc, of Bono, the singer of the U2 group, and even of Mick Jagger.

The launching of the iPhone took delay, because the two American industrialists polished their protection system of royalties. The first apparatus of Motorola is equipped with a removable memory of 512 megabytes, that is to say equivalent 80 to 120 pieces of music. The world number two of the portables plans to market a version with a hard disk of a capacity of 1 000 songs in the first half of 2006. The iPhone will be able to be also connected to a stereo chain, a computer (using a catch USB) or even to a car radio.

The support of APPLE should give again a dash with the sales of Motorola which gave up its place of number one to Finnish Nokia. The firm directed by ED Zander is made pursue by the South Korean industrialists. Samsung temporarily raflé to him the second world place of the manufacturers of portables last year.

 

[sethypoo]

oh my god, kainjow, it's amazing to see a really oldtime macrumors.com member here 🙂

i just saw, and responded to a post from true777 and i think i have seen michaelrjohnson, both 2000 members here, too

This is totally off topic, but ever since I became a member here back in late 2003, I have to say I can't remember any post made by jefhatfield that didn't have something to do with how "old" a member is or that they are a "2000" member. I even remember a thread, something like "Macrumors old skool" (besides the forum) that jefhatfield created.

Anyway, just something I noticed. Seems like all your posts, or at least the ones I read, have something to do with age, and your preference and astute memory of "2000" members.

 

[Jesus]

Translation

HERE IS THE TRANSLATION OF THE FRENCH ARTICLE:


After the success of the iPod, number one of the walkmans of numerical music sold to 15,5 million units in the world, Steve Jobs, president OF Apple, and its counterpart and friend of Motorola, ED Zander, will launch the iPhone on Tuesday. This mobile telephone, code name "Key Largo", will have the form of the E398 model from Motorola. It is equipped with the software iTunes of APPLE, adapted for a portable. Color: white ivory, like the first iPods, it will be marketed as of July 4, birthday day of the independence of the United States. The first version will be able to hold a hundred songs. Perhaps this phone will make it possible to make take off the market of the remote loading of music on a mobile telephone. The numerical function of photography was already democratized using the portables. The industrialists and the majors of the music hope to renew this exploit in the music. APPLE signed for the moment one cooperation agreement with its Motorola compatriot for his software iTunes which popularized the use of its numerical walkmans. An American operator agreed to market the iPhone. Its subscribers will be able to directly download a piece of music from the iTMS. The site through which apple sells songs sells them for €0.99 when the operators market usually their music for between 2 and 3 euros. This portable is thus likely to reduce their margins and to cause an outcry. To launch the iPhone, Steve Jobs took its stick of pilgrim in order to convince of the operators of mobile telephony. But little of them agreed to launch out in the adventure and to yield in the conditions of APPLE. In France, Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom did not decide yet to open their network with the phine designed by APPLE and Motorola. SFR, subsidiary of Vivendi Universal and Vodafone, shows strongest resistance to the iPhone. SFR has just concluded a licensing agreement with NRJ to propose the service NRJ Mobile which aims in priority the sale of music near the young people. Steve Jobs had had more success, before the launching of the iPod, in 2001, by obtaining to the agreement of Bono, the singer of the U2 group, and even of Mick Jagger. The launching of the iPhone took delay, because the two American industrialists polished their protection system of royalties. The first Motorola phone is equipped with a removable memory of 512 megabytes, that is to say equivalent 80 to 120 pieces of music. The Motorola plans to market a version with a hard disk of a capacity of 1 000 songs in the first half of 2006. The iPhone will be able to be also connected to a stereo chain, a computer (using USB) or even to a car radio. The support of APPLE should give again a dash with the sales of Motorola which gave up its place of number one to Finnish Nokia. The firm directed by ED Zander is made pursue by the South Korean industrialists.



Jesus



Sorry my french tranlator isn't that good, and I can only guess at some sentences it gets wrong...

 

[broken_keyboard]

Music. yawn.

I am a computer nerd, I don't give a stuff about music companies. Please don't become a music company Apple.

 

[Multimedia]

January 2006 Intel Dual Core Yonah PowerBooks

Macintels are definitely out of the question right now. Not gonna happen until next year. Developers have barely gotten ahold of their Dev kits. They need to be given time to re-write their apps so that they'll run natively on the Macintels.

They'll most likely be announced/released during MWSF 2006.

I totally agree. That's when I expect the Intel Dual Core Yonah PowerBooks to be announced and shipping then or shortly thereafter. That jives with Intel's plan to begin mass production of Yonah dual core mobility processors this fall. I also disagree that PPC code will run dog slow on Yonah via Rosetta. According to Jobs' presentation at WWDC the hit will be minimal. Tiger and all Apple software is already native for Intel so all of our favorite system applications are totally ready for Intel now. But the processors Apple wants to use are not ready yet.

I don't see missing native Intel applications as an obsticle to rapid Intel Inside Mac adoption. "Dog Slow" is not a verb anyone will be able to use against PPC applications running on Intel Macs. 🙂

 

[brandon6684]

I agree that we'll almost certainly see the lauch of iTunes 4.9 and probably the unveiling of the iTunes phone. We may even see 5G iPods, although I'm not sure of what new and compelling updates may be instore. One update is probably going to be much longer battery life, like what was seen with the 2G minis. Another is probably making the color screen standard on the full size iPods and dropping the separate iPod photo line, espiciall since the monocrome iPod line has already been reduced to the single 20GB model. I doubt we'll see a color screen mini quite yet, but it may be instore for the next update.

The shuffle is also tough to gauge. The haven't really been big enoguh price drops in flash memory to sell a 1GB and 2GB shuffle at the price points of the current 512MB and 1GB models, but with Apple's volume buying they may be able to work something out, and the shuffle market has become stagnant and they probably want to shake things up again. I personally don't see the shuffle going much beyond 2GB without some sort or redesign to provide better navigation, but with in the next couple years, I wouldn't be surprised to see flash making its way into the minis the way that prices have been dropping and storage sizes have been increasing.

While it may not be in the 5Gs, an iPod feature I would like to see, and I think there is good change of happening is built in wifi with and integrated iTunes music store. If they plan on selling songs through cell phones, I see no reason it couldn't work with an iPod. Apple has been really trying to pitch iTMS as the preferred method of getting songs on your iPod, so it would make perfect sense. It could also open the way for a streaming all you can eat subscription service, since one reason they don't have on yet is because the iTMS is iPod centric, it doesn't really fit in, but with a WiFi iPod, it would be great.

 

[onlymac]

5G ipod ... built-in recording

given that this is the big 'welcome to podcasting' release, it seem likely that a new revision of ithe ipod is also due in order to enable everyone to take part.

i'm betting that '4.9' moniker will be skipped in favour of "iTunes 5.0", simultaneously with 5G iPod's with built-in audio recording facilities similar to but hopefully better than the iRiver (which is currently the podcasters hardware of choice, specifically for that reason)

the current iPods can only record with third party addon and even then only at very low quality.

just my 2 cents