Phoneless iPhones coming by Macworld?
The large screen and landscape viewing mode that come with the iPhone could make for a cheaper video iPod that can't phone home.
The iPhone is an iPod, after all, and a version without the phone and data capabilities could tempt shoppers this holiday season.
(Credit: Corrine Schulze/CNET Networks)Apple watchers Piper Jaffray released a report Monday predicting that Apple will soon update its high-end iPod lineup with a wide-screen model that looks an awful lot like the iPhone, just without the phone and data connections. It's been a while since Apple released a new iPod, and rumors have been circulating for a long time that Apple has plans for a wide-screen iPod.
With the launch of the iPhone, Apple does indeed have that wide-screen iPod, but its hefty price and data plan requirements could turn off iPod users who just want that large screen without all the bells and whistles. Piper Jaffray estimates that for around $299 Apple could sell a phoneless iPhone that runs Mac OS X and uses the same touch-screen interface as the iPhone.
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phone, but keep the WiFi and Safari and Mail. I wonder how much
more memory Apple could get into it without the cell radio? Add
stereo BlueTooth through A2DP and I'll line up for one.
are limited to "squirting" DRM-laden poop at other flaming pieces
of crap.
The market has spoken, and it hates the Zune.
Of course 3 years from now, the pole smoking, Apple can do no wrong, I want Steve Jobs man gravy, types will tell you that Apple came out with the wide screen MP3 player first....just like they do with Spotlight vs Vista search or time machine vs shadow copy...and many other things they did not get to first.
These are the same drones that will sleep on a sidewalk even thought they don?t need to. Cnet will post at least 2 articles a day about it 60 days prior to the release.
Oh and for that mental giant that said the Zune squirts DRM music?.yes it does, and non-DRM music, and so will any version of the Ipod that can share music with another device. DRM believe it or not was not invented by Microsoft or Apple?.even though you might think Apple had it first.
Hurry up drones I hear the line is forming!!! You can download Itunes 7.4 over edge using your iphone as a modem for your Macbooks?..if you start downloading right when you get in line you may just have a enough time!!
nastiness all over the world whether or not anyone wanted it (note:
I see iPods everywhere, but the only zune I've ever seen was in a
display case I was walking by at Target - and no one else was even
in the isle).
What do you call it when a killer dies? Justice?
dumbstruck in line at Apple Stores, when they find that you need to
use a computer to get music for iPods. Why? No good reason, any
more. Anywhere there's WiFi, or even a good EVSO-like phone
network, you could download music, and simply skip the computer
part of iTunes. And if the the WiFi/3G iPod also happens to have a
pretty, OS X interface and a big, color screen, all the more likely to
make it sell.
It is missing a good Outlook sync with categorized Notes and To Do Lists. There is not a good way on the iPhone to keep Notes synced to a Mac or PC. That would make the unit terrific.
screaming for with Office 2004 and I would hope 2008. If you go
into your preferences, you will find an option for "Syncing Services",
which allows Entourage to sync with iCal for calendar, Address
Book well...for adresses, AND .Mac for notes. Granted it requires a
.Mac membership, but it can be done and works wonderfully.
P.S. To all those naysayers who said that the iPhone doesn't
support Exchange...IT'S IN THERE!
- More domination?
- by sanjayb July 10, 2007 5:50 AM PDT
- Apple should release an IPOD with all the fancy IPHONE features just before Christmas. I would predict that would capture the rest of the MP3 market that Apple doesn't have yet. :-)
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