Other The iPhone 4 / iOS Thread

So, His Jobsness will start preaching to the faithfull at 18:00 BST - We all know that he's going to pull an iPhone HD / 4G out of his pocket (unless he left it in a bar somewhere), but what else do you think will get announced?

There's been rumours that MobileMe might be offered FOC rather than the current £70 annual fee:

http://gizmodo.com/5556370/come-monday-will-mobileme-be-free

There's also images of a new muti-touch pad device:

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/07/apples-magic-trackpad-or-magic-slate-revealed/
http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._apples_multitouch_magic_trackpad_leaked.html

There's also iPhone OS 4.0, Safari 5, a new release of Xcode...

But what will be the 'one last thing?'

Personally, whilst it'd be sad that it would be delayed, I think it'd be funny If Steveo announced that due to the leaks the new phone has been canned and there won't be a refresh this year.

"You can thank Chen and his Gizmodo brethren" - Steve points at Jason Chen and whoever else is from Giz in the audience - "for that once I have left the auditorium. All exits will be locked for 1 hour. That is all"

 

The iSaber, now with increased laz0rness!

Been watching too much Star Wars lately ..

 

Giz isn't allowed to attend WWDC this year, so no finger pointing.

Also, I doubt they'd update the iPad so soon (but I'll be very happy if they do).

 

iPad price changes I think - unexpected and completely doable, plus a nice surprise for 'one last thing' but not a major announcement.

 

there's that magic pad thing engadget were talking about before. looks pretty interesting; might pick one up to play with if released. also hoping for updated mac minis with hdmi and decent nvidia graphics - would make a wonderful media centre.

 

I reckon that a drop in iPad price is doable.
Same with a price change for MobileMe.

I think the major news is that touch device (assuming it's real), the iPhone and Safari 5. Don't think there's all that much more that's gonna intrigue me horribly.

 

iMac refresh
Mac Mini refresh
AppleTV redux? (unlikely at this stage, a prototype would of been leaked by now)

MobileMe has to become a free service. It's pretty useless and competitors offer most of its features for free elsewhere.

Hopefully there is a genuine surprise, but I doubt it. When the iPad was announced, I predicted it would be the last Apple product that was able to stay hidden until reveal. Apple events just attract so much worldwide attention now that any information leak is worth $100,000+.

 

can't see it being anything to do with refresh of AppleTV as he's admitted that that idea flopped big time, people just didn't know what to do with it.

 

I'll be back home from work in time for this, might actually watch it. I use a couple of Apple products but have never seen one of these events, so it might make for a bit of a difference.

Plus I'm quite interested in the 4th gen iPhone if it is released, as I'm primed for an upgrade if it lives up to expectation / isn't too expensive.

 

Wouldn't be the first time Mr.Jobs has said one thing then done another.

Nobody reads books any more, remember?

It's all in the tease.

 

Supposedly there is a possibility of Mac OS X 10.7. The magic touchpad, iPhone 4, Apple TV based on iPhone 4, Safari 5 and Xcode4.

 

Yay, Farmville for the iPhone, and PDFs for iPad.

25 minutes of nothing so far...

 

inb4 iPhone omg haters/lovers!!11!!oneleven.

 

http://gizmodo.com/5557101/iphone-4-the-definitive-guide

960*640 IPS screen makes my HTC Desire sad

In other news, I don't have to eat my keyboard

 

iPhone 4 seems to looks just like the prototype Gizmodo had, it's apparently much thinner than the current iPhone.

 

Jesus christ they don't half talk some crap. "Retina display"??? Just say you've put a high resolution display in there instead of coming up with some fancy nonsense to try and make it sound much more impressive than it really is!

 

That has annoyed me quite a lot.

Ah well at least the wi-fi is broken

 

Gyroscope. Jenga!

 

hmm, renaming their OS to iOS, wonder how Cisco feel about that.

 

Haha... :L He aked everyone to put their laptops down and stop using WiFi or MiFi. Haha.. poor steve and bloggers.