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Apple iWalk: Mac OS-X based PDA?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the holy-cow-that-looks-sweet dept.

Per Wigren noted that SpyMac claims to have pictures of the iWalk, the mysterious secret project scheduled to be announced any time now. It is apparently something between a subnotebook and a PDA running a scaled down OSX. Supposedly it can be a portable MP3 player, and it has apple's airport stuff built in. CT Nope. They announced the iPod instead, a lame MP3 player.

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  1. iWalk by macpeep · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do a search on iWalk on Google and you'll find an existing product with that name. The product is one that Wired covered a while back about some kind of artificial leg. It seems unlikely that Apple would use the name of an existing product. http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,39262,00.ht ml

  2. Obvious fake by Masker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There were earlier pictures that have been removed now, but were easier to spot as fakes. Here is some discussion on MacNN about the "iWalk". Also note that "iWalk" is not a registered trademark of Apple.

    What is an Apple trademark, though, is the "iPod" (NOTE: if you can't get the page to display, just start a new search for "iPod"). From the description, though, it does sound like a PDA...

    Nice of Slashdot to finally put a story of this up... The original invitations went out last Friday!

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  3. Best line of the write up by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    with handwriting recognition (using former newton-technology so it's a lot better than current palm os recognition)

    LOL! First of all, the Newton sucked when it came to handwriting recognition. Second of all, the guy doesn't even seem to realize that Palm OS doesn't do handwriting recognition, it does gesture recognition with Graffiti, which is why it was successful. Palm was smart enough to know that handwriting recognition sucks and will always suck like voice recognition until we get better AI-based pattern recognition and language context theories (no, it won't be solved solely by processor speed).

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  4. Re:More Evidence aganist this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The website is registered to Ehlis Design in Germany. If you visit their website you'll see other fake Apple products.

  5. Open the jpg in a text editor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How many people use photoshop to get images from their digital camera?