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Honestly I think the phone is more likely to be announced on the 7th that at the Paris expo. I just don't think the 'iPhone' will be such a big deal in europe or asia, as it will in the US. It would face much tougher competition in europe, as the cellphone market over here appears to be very different to over the pond in the US.
When the 'iPhone' rumors started, I had a look at products with a similar musical capabilities as well as other features, and the US cellular market seems to be lacking in feature-rich high quality phones, for reasonable prices. Therefore I think any launches at the Paris expo will not include the iPhone. |
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torifile. i think it is called the halo effect!
for me i hardly ever participate in forums.. i've been scoping for a new machine and i'm a long time mac user... still have my apple ][+, quadra 660av, 9600, G4 and stock that I got when they were in the toilet! I'm a believer! |
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Half of the places reporting this are calling it a "special event", and the other half are calling it a "special music event". Which is it?
If it's the latter I'd lean towards an iPhone thingy. 4GB of flash memory (“1000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again.”). If it's the former...it could be damn near anything. So it goes. |
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Special music event?
I wonder if it is a Billboard 'smart playlist' you cannot move/copy which has the top chart songs in? What a way to push the current music and tantalise people as it slips from the chart and is no longer available. Feature request: Can it filter out 'ringtone spin-offs'? |
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fwiw, The NY Times reports it will be a cellphone:
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Now if I said that, I'd be catching grief...
I'm betting it is a phone. But a little more than "just a phone" (because I just don't see a Motorola cell phone that plays some iTunes deserving of this special event roll-out). I still think it'll have some cool, unexpected Apple mojo under the hood, making it an absolute must-have for Mac users, and geeks in general. What that would be, I have no idea. But surely to goodness, this thing would do more than play some songs? Otherwise...who really cares? Go poke around Cingular's site and see what's possibly lying around, exposed... Last edited by psmith2.0 : 2005-08-30 at 10:13. |
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If it is a phone, that seems like a heck of a lot of effort for not much of a big deal...
I'm not sure about in the US but in Europe pretty much every phone produced in the last 12 months (give or take) now plays MP3's. For Apple to imply they have a groundbreaking idea I would hope it's not just another one of these. Even Apple couldn't add too much value added Apple-y goodness to something so basic. My hopes would therefore be on an all-new video iPod. That in itself would be great news - what would be the clincher is a final announcement that although the new spanky video iPod has a lovely large screen ideally suited to Video, they will also be releasing an iPod Updater that makes all iPod Photo's/current Colour screened iPods play video too. Just on a smaller screen. That would be cool (& I remember reading on these forums months ago that the chip in current colour screened iPods is capable of video). The only bad vibe I get from this is that Mortorola did say they'd make the iPhone announcement some time in September... I hope it's at Paris as a side note... |
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Nooooooooooooooooo, We need Paris for those PPC products that are still in the pipeline. Ya no, the really great ones. |
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Motorola is doing his thing in NY at the same time Apple is doing his in SF.
It's the phone. Maybe Ed Zander will call Steve J. and they will listen to songs on their iTunes phone during the announcement. It will also be a flash-based 4GB iPod mini (from the samsung announcement). $199 Shuffles? 1 and 2GB $99-149 and how about a 8GB color-screen mini (HD based) $249? iTunes 5 iPod video? not sure it is yet the right time. |
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Wait, what if when you make a phone call to your S.O. or not so S.O. you can play a song on your phone and the other person can hear it as clear as can be. Now that I have not heard of yet unless you count holding the mouth piece to the speaker of your stereo.
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I'd like to think it's something more fantastical than a video iPod. I mean, competing players have video functionality, meaning, if it is a video iPod, apple would have to be coupling that with something radical that'd make their video player more desirable than everyone else's video player.
So, I dunno, it probably is a video iPod, I just hope there is some twist that makes it really really neat. On a side note, what's with the iTunes phone being cingular only? I'm literally a month away from renewing my verizon plan and getting a bitching new phone grr. Last edited by Wrao : 2005-08-30 at 12:07. |
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Brad, you haven't heard about ringbacks, have you?
It's a custom song snippet that the person who *calls* you hears instead of the normal ringing, *and* you can set it up per person who calls. It's $2 a pop at Verizon, and it's one of their hottest things. *I* think it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, but... |
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Ohmigosh...how funny. I made my "John Hughes movie from 1988" comment, just as oldmacfan wrote about his "speaker sharing" from back in the day (which I did too, of course). Back before the Internet and these new-fangled music gadgets, a fella had to work with what was available to him! And if popping in your new Men at Work cassette and putting the (corded) phone near the speaker so your buddy or girlfriend could hear "Overkill", then, by gosh, that's what you did! |
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