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Anyone heard any rumors besides the iPhone? I have no interest in an iPhone at all right now, but then again I already have an mp3 player on my current phone.

Here's a list of sites that will carry it live:

http://www.glennwolsey.com/2007/01/09/where-to-watch-live-apple-keynote-updates/

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Thanks for this. I'm still waiting for a good time to jump ship and buy a Macbook (I'm in no hurry). At least these keynotes keep me entertained in the meantime.

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is there no video feed of this???

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Al22ex said:

is there no video feed of this???
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I remember seeing it live one year, but now it seems the best you can do is live blog updates. I'll keep looking though.

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iTV. Watch stuff on your tv.

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steve jobs could slap "i" on a turd and it would sell

#6 UTweezer, Jan 9, 2007
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Apple phone...

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That iPhone does so many different things. Personally, I prefer simple cell phones and don't like all of the multiple utilities but people keep buying ipods so it should sell really well.

#8 geeimsobored, Jan 9, 2007
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Oh my god... The Iphone might be the most amazing thing I have ever seen

#9 Al22ex, Jan 9, 2007
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Oh my god... The Iphone might be the most amazing thing I have ever seen
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Yea after watching it some more, that **** is unreal. It's practically a mini-computer with a pretty good working version of OSX and full iPod functionality.

I still wouldn't get but DAH-UHM. That thing is absolutely unreal.

#10 geeimsobored, Jan 9, 2007
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There's a good chance that Iphone will be huge.

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Jesus. This stuff is awesome.

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Macworld Expo Keynote Live Update

By Peter Cohen

Macworld is providing live coverage of Steve Jobs' Macworld Expo keynote address. Please click your browser's refresh button for the latest updates.

Instead of the usual venue in Moscone's South Hall, Apple has shifted today's keynote address to Moscone West, a newer facility next door to the Moscone Convention Center that Apple has used to house WWDC and other special events.

Greenpeace activists, trying to draw attention to claims that Apple uses hazardous chemicals in its products and lacks a worldwide computer and iPod recycling program, staged a protest on the street outside the venue.

Following a recording of James Brown singing, "I Feel Good," the lights of the keynote hall dimmed and Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage to thunderous applause from the crowd.

"Thank you for coming. We're going to make some history today," he said.

"It was just a year ago that I announced we were going to switch to Intel processors," said Jobs. "I said we'd do it in the coming 12 months. We did it in seven months. It's been the smoothest and most successful transition that we have seen in our industry."

Half of all Macs in the United States are now being sold to people who are first time Mac users, said Jobs.

"2007 is going to be a great year for the Mac, but this is all we're going to talk about the Mac today," he added.

The iPod is the world's most popular music player, and the iPod nano is the world's most popular MP3 player, said Jobs. Apple has sold more than 2 billion songs on its iTunes Store to date.

The iTunes Store and movies

"There was an article recently that said iTunes sales have slowed dramatically. I don't know what date they're looking at," said Jobs. "What we see is iTunes sales were really up this year. We doubled the number of songs we sold in 2006. We are selling over 5 million songs a day. Isn't that unbelievable? 58 songs every second."

Jobs said that the iTunes Store has sold 50 million TV shows through the iTunes Store. And within four months, the service has sold 1.3 million movies. "Which I think has exceeded all of our expectations," he added.

Jobs then revealed that Apple has struck a deal with Paramount. "We're thrilled because they have some awesome movies: Tomb Raider, Patriot Games, Star Trek, Red October, School of Rock," he said.

250 movies are now offered on iTunes, said Jobs. "We're getting them up as fast as we can in the next week or so," he said. "We hope to add more movies as other studious throw in with us in 2007."

Zune

The newest iPod competitor on the block in Microsoft's Zune, which launched this past holiday season. Jobs said that Zune had a 2 percent market share.

"So no matter how you try to spin this, what can you say?" Jobs said. Behind him, an image of the Zune on the screen burst into flames and faded away.

appletv

Jobs then revealed the final name of the product he first revealed during a special event in September, 2006 -- then named "iTV." The final product is called appletv.

The appletv wireless connects your digital media to your widescreen TV, said Jobs. The device includes power, USB 2.0, Ethernet, built-in Wi-Fi, HDMI, component video, audio and optical audio ports on its back.

The appletv is capable of displaying 720p HD video, and incorporates its own 40GB hard drive, said Jobs -- capable of storing up to 50 hours of video.

The appletv uses the new 802.11n draft standard, said jobs -- a faster wireless networking technology. "And it has an Intel processor in it, so it's got processing horsepower to do the kinds of UI we like to do," he added.

The appletv auto-syncs content from one computer and can stream content from up to five computers, said Jobs. "Just like you can set up an iPod, you can set up an appletv," he explained. It works directly from iTunes. Computers that stream content to the appletv don't store their content on the drive, but users can watch it live via the network.

Jobs then demonstrated the appletv, showing the interface, playing movie trailers and clips from television shows. He added that the appletv can also be used for digital still images and music. "When it's playing a song, the album art appears and there's an iTunes-like interface. Every ten seconds or so it flips the positions so it doesn't burn in your LCD TV," he said.

Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller then took the stage with Jobs, MacBook in hand, to demonstrate how the appletv works with someone else's computer. Jobs went to the Sources menu, chose Connect to New iTunes and put in a PIN number. Schiller then entered that number on his copy of iTunes, and connected. Then Schiller streamed a clip from television shows stored locally on his MacBook.

The appletv is priced at $299, and is shipping in February, 2007. Jobs said that Apple is taking orders starting today.

The iPhone

"This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and a half years," said Jobs. "Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything."

In 1984, said Jobs, Apple introduced the Macintosh, and changed the computer industry. In 2001, Apple introduced the iPod, and changed the entire music industry.

"Well, today, we're introducing three revolutionary products of this class," said Jobs. "The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. The third is a breakthrough Internet communications device."

"These are not three separate devices," said Jobs. "This is one device. And we are calling it iPhone. Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone."

Jobs explained that smartphones provide phone and e-mail and what he called "the baby Internet. They're not so smart and not so easy to use."

"We don't want to do these," he said. "We want to do a leapfrog product that's way smarter than these phones and much easier to use. So we're going to reinvent the phone."

The iPhone does not use a keyboard, nor does it use a stylus, as many smartphones do today. The device uses new technology called "Multitouch."

"We're going to use the best pointing device in our world," said Jobs. "We're born with 10 of them, our fingers."

Multitouch is far more accurate than any touch display, according to Jobs. It ignores unintended touches, supports multi-fingers gesture. "And boy, have we patented it," he added.

The iPhone runs Mac OS X, said Jobs. "We start with a solid foundation," he explained.

"Why would we run such a sophisticated operating system on a mobile device? It's got everything we need," he said. "It's got multitasking, networking, power management, awesome security and the right apps. It's got all the stuff we want. And it's built right in to iPhone. And has let us create desktop-class applications and networking.

iPhone also synchronizes through iTunes. It syncs media, contact information, calendars, photos, notes, bookmarks, e-mail accounts. "All that stuff can be moved over the iPhone completely automatically," said Jobs.

The iPhone features a 3.5-inch, 160 dot-per-inch color screen. There's a small "Home" button it. It's also remarkably thin -- 11.6 millimeters, thinner than any smartphone out there, according to Jobs.

On one side, the iPhone sports a ring/silent switch, volume up and down controls. On its silver back side is a 2 megapixel digital camera. The bottom features a speaker, microphone and iPod dock connector.

The iPhone also incorporates a proximity sensor that automatically deactivates the screen and turns off the touch sensor when you raise the device to your face. An ambient light sensor will sense lighting conditions and adjust brightness levels accordingly. And an accelerometer can tell when you switch from portrait to landscape mode.

Jobs' demonstration of the iPhone began with iPod-related features. An iPod icon along the bottom of the screen brings up a list of music, and Jobs flicked his finger to scroll up and down. He flipped the iPhone on its side and it reoriented to landscape mode, displaying album art in iTunes' "Cover Flow" mode. Jobs also showed video on the device.

"We want to reinvent the phone," he reiterated. "What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on phones. We want you to use contacts like never before."

The iPhone can synchronize contacts from a PC or Mac, and features "Visual Voicemail." He described it as "random access voicemail" that lets you navigate directly to the voice messages you're interested in.

iPhone is a quad-band phone that operated on GSM and EDGE networks. That's the most popular international standard, said Jobs, though Apple plans to make 3G phones in the future. It also integrates Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, and will automatically switch from a cell phone data network to Wi-Fi when it gets in range.

Demonstrating the phone's ability to make calls, he touched the screen's phone icon and scrolled through his contact list, pulling up Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design. Phil Schiller then called Jobs -- visible through call waiting. Jobs pressed a "merge calls" button and then created a three way conference calling.

The iPhone's text messaging interface looks similar to iChat -- user dialogue is encased in bubbles, and a touch keyboard appears below. And the phone's photo management software enables you to use a "pinching" motion to zoom in and out of pictures.

The iPhone's Internet connectivity includes HTML-capable e-mail that works with any IMAP or POP-based e-mail service. Apple has also included its Safari Web browser. Jobs called it the "first fully usable HTML browser on a phone."

Jobs said that Yahoo will offer free "push" e-mail capabilities using IMAP to all Yahoo! Mail users. "When you get a message, it'll push it right out to the phone for you," he said.

The iPhone also supports Dashboard widgets, starting off with weather and stocks.
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Wow, this thing looks insane:

Also, what is it with old geeks and their ill-fitting turtlenecks that are tucked into their pants?

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The second I can get a free iPhone through signing up with Cingular, then its buh-bye Verizon.

#14 Lynus302, Jan 9, 2007
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Xerobull said:

Wow, this thing looks insane:

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Good LORD, that thing is HUGE! How are you supposed to carry it around?

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Good LORD, that thing is HUGE! How are you supposed to carry it around?

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Just put it in your pants next to your other, less impressive phallus.

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iPhone:
shipping in June
8GB model - $599
4GB model - $499

I'd rather just get a widescreen iPod with 60 GB

Wonder if there's going to be an Apple phone service they'll force you to get. That would be bad news.
-edit- nevermind, it's Cingular.

Evan

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looks like a good way to get people to spend 60 more dollars on a cover to protect that unprotected screen.

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hehehehe..."multi finger gestures"....

Seriously, does Apple even make computers any more?

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A-Train said:

hehehehe..."multi finger gestures"....

Seriously, does Apple even make computers any more?
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I think their macbooks and Imacs have become rather successful.

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