as much as I am sick of hearing about iPhone news (I want some Mac news), I have something to point out about the iPhone that says "The Future calling". The time on that display says 9:47, doesnt the show start at 9:00 AM? lol i dont know, but its interesting
I just had a sobering thought based on a comment here a few posts back:
Most everyone has seen that Ballmer video where he laughed at the iPhone - of course that interview was months before the iPhone became an actual reality and now, a year into it, it would be safe to say that even if Ballmer hates it, he'd have to admire the device period.
In that video he makes a distinct point about Windows Mobile devices, and as such because Microsoft doesn't make PDAs, they're simply licensing the software to hardware makers, etc - same old same old for Microsoft.
But what if...
What if Apple is about to push a device on the market come Monday's keynote - and also as stated before they have used WWDC to promote some rather big items in the past - that's more akin to a PDA as we know them to be, based on OSX as the operating system, not quite a tablet-sized device but still very tiny and portable.
That earlier picture with the 120 or 128GB Flash storage mentioned shows 10" LCD from what I can make out, widescreen of course, but it's that "Programmable LCD Keyboard" that has really got me thinking. Sure the 3G support at the bottom and 11n are expected, but...
Is the first serious Apple tablet device about to drop on Moscone Center and the world on Monday? 10" seems a bit small to me, and there's no way in hell an iPhone, even an updated one, will have a 10" LCD on it unless they're moving from 16:9 ratios to 2.35:1 or something. 10" LCD is fairly large compared to a PDA or anything even in that class, sooo...
If that image shown on that screen is accurate, it can't be anything but a tablet - they wouldn't put a "Programmable LCD Keyboard" on a real laptop as it wouldn't be necessary, unless they about to come out with something like a Nintendo DS device: two screens, both can be used for displays, with one capable of touch operation.
Man I hate speculating, but I can see over the next few days this thread is just going to explode with such things.
Oh well, it's something to do I guess, right?
iNewton, anyone?
-portable line-up all sport an 3-axis (x,y & z axes) accelerometer. Its only use on the MB, MBP & MBA is for sensing sudden moments to lock the HDD to avoid accidental shock damages. There are various third party apps on the web like AMS_Tracker which give the coordinate values from the SMS-accelerometer in these devices. .... Not user friendly... not ish enough 
Yeah booooy . . . Videochat, here we come. Forget "who's this i'm sorry you have the wrong number", it's gonna start sounding more like "whoa, who are you?"
Its the new logo for Appleworks 3G.
Nah...
I have "aquired" the banner for the iPhone in the back:
Do I get a cookie?
Asia's most advanced phone after everything is revealed and all of our mouths drop to the floor and drip drool . . yes.
Looks like a green link btwn phones or sumthn
Well, I'm giddy as a school girl...
Couple of FYIs that apparently can't be overstated:
1) Macrumors.com is an Apple news/rumor/follow Steve's every move/let those of us who can't be at WWDC know what's going on site. If you are going to complain about what the founder/owner puts on the front page, then please go start your own site because it doesn't make sense to come to an Apple site and complain about Apple related articles. Thank you if you made it this far.
2) The World Wide Developers Conference is for (wait for it....) developers!!!!! It is not a hardware forum. Thus, while we will more than likely be hearing about hardware related items, the main focus is development of software for all Apple platforms (which now includes the iPhone in case you missed it).
