iPhone Rumor #736573536357856362.024^17
- December 6th, 2006
- 8 Comments
Jesse Tortora strikes again. Yes the same Prudential analyst that we cited in our Apple gaming rumor yesterday, has today spewed his credential all over Apple’s “iPhone.”
According to Tortora, two iPhones are in the works. The first of which he claims has a top priority of playing music, essentially making it a music player first and a phone second. He says it will look similar to an iPod wit a smaller screen and it’ll pack a camera and GSM/GPRS capabilities.
Tortora believes Apple is also working on a smart iPhone, a SmartiPhone™ if you will, that will have a larger OLED display, sliding keyboard and WCDMA compliance. Hrmmmm wireless broadband on the SmartiPhone. So here’s another rumor from a creditable source (me): the SmartiPhone has wireless broadband so that users can download music quickly from iTunes wherever they may roam. Yes that’s right, WHEREVER. You heard it here first.
So for all we know Mr. Tortora is spot-on. But then again it could just be the ramblings of some guy. Whatever the case, what we do know is that Apple is indeed working on an iPhone and that it’ll probably be announced at Macworld in January. We’ll have our one armed gimp (Vince) and our retarded manservant (Raj) on the floor so you can expect a full report as soon as Jobs makes the announcement, or at least as soon as Vince and Raj sober up enough from their night of awkwardness to report on it.
Prudential: iPhone to sport click wheel; video iPod by Q2 [AppleInsider]
drdrew (Who am I?)
1 year ago
that’s a slick design, serioulsy. and i like how the displays are increasing without making it ridiculiously large.
here’s a rumor for ya, gen2 iphone, already in the works, will have complete voice control for input and a projection keyboard for those who still want to type and in addition to a larger display will have a holographic 3D image projector. as soon as i heard this, i woke up. :)
Blake Robinson (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Don’t forget the flux capacitor.
drdrew (Who am I?)
1 year ago
yeah, but it still only runs at 1.21 jigawatts…
Ezekiel (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I wonder how thick this thing is going to be. With the BlackJack and other slim phones already out it better be slim. Nano slim would be nice but you can forget the projection keyboard and the flux capacitor.
brklynsurfer (Who am I?)
1 year ago
How about superior voice quality. That would be nice. Oh and a battery that lasts 5 days. I wonder how much stock Tortora owns of Apple and what color Lamborghini will he get when he cashes those stocks in based on his hype.
Silly Apple, only using WCDMA on the Smartiphone ™, doesn’t Jobs know that only smart people use GSM?
Wallosoup
1 year ago
I used to rubberband my nano to my similarly sized (albeit thicker) Sony Ericsson phone and refer to that as my iPod/Phone. It leads me to believe that it wouldn’t be hard to make a simple iPhone fairly quickly with the right partnerships, as long as they don’t get crazy with the features and try to do too much.
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drdrew (Who am I?)
1 year ago
wallosoup, that is just hardcore, a bit - i don’t know - “crazy”, but hardcore noetheless. do you have a pic? i’d love to see a prototype…no, seriously… :)
adi (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Perhaps the “Video iPod” and “SmartiPhone” are really the same device? A dash of iPod, a smidge of iPhone, and a spoonful of Newton?
Sounds good to me.