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Apple iWalk: Mac OS-X based PDA?
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.
...but these look fake to me. Almost definitely 3D-rendered. Maybe useful as an "artists' conception" pic, but that's not what this was touted as.
And besides, Apple already said "it's not a Mac." This looks a lot like a Mac to me, albeit a reeeeeeeeally small one.
Why are people so obsessed with the idea of Apple releasing a PDA, anyway?
Perhaps thay don't actually USE the Macs -- notice the DELL parts bag under the pack of smokes? Maybe they actually use PCs whenever Jobs isn't looking!
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No matter how much you want to believe this (and believe me, I want to), you have to notice two very important things: One, that the Apple rumor world isn't mearly as accurate as it was before the reign of heir Jobs, and the most important one is that Apple has said publicly on two occasions (that come to mind) that there will be no Apple Portables aside from laptops.
I want this to be true as I still hold a candle for the lost Newton division, but I've seen these rumours before, and they've never come to fruition then either.
But then again, we never thought we'd have a Mac OS with protected memory, either, so there is a (very) slim chance, I guess. But don't hold youir breath.
Hilary Rosen's speech was about her love of money and her desire to roll around naked in a pile of money.
Reporting on rumors is fine, they're even entertaining. However when the real device is going to be unveiled in a few hours its a bit pointless. Besides, everybody knows its going to be the iBrator!
Chris Kuivenhoven is a thief, beware
Not to mention that I doubt Apple would make anything with buttons that tiny so close together.
Cheers.
"Whadda'ya watchin'?"
"Angry Monkey."
"That HORRIBLE monkey."
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
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!
---------The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Apple's rabid lawyers haven't forced them to take it down yet, therefore it can't be real
~ a low user id is no indication I have a clue what I'm talking about.
Why not call it the eWalk instead?
Imagine an Apple ad campaign with little furry creatures running around the forest carrying colorful translucent PDAs.
The MacNN forums (www.macnn.com ahem the most reliable) have debunked this as a doctored up Harmon Kardon amplifier and a Microsoft remote control.
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
The 'icing on the fake' is the box of marbs middle right and the Rorschach Ink Blot middle left.
Krispy Cream is people
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).
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
And look at the shadows coming from the cigarette box. They don't match up, do they? :)
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There seems to be two light sources. One immediately above and behind the photographer, like a florescent ceiling light, which is evidenced by the reflection on the keyboard. The other source appears to be an regular incandescent also behind the viewer, casting shadows on the cigarettes that goes up. The shadow from the iWalk device is going to the upper left. They just don't seem consistent. There's also a *very* faint shadow leaning *towards* the photographer. Also notice the wrinkles on the sheet of paper beneath the iWalk. The shadows cast by them are also going "up", like from the cigarette box. Funny how it's the only object in the scene that casts light in its own unique direction. Light also does not seem to fall naturally on the device itself.
A few other observations I noticed... Zoom in close on the image. Other objects in the scene are slightly more crisp than the device itself.
Maybe I'm wrong, but the scene just looks very unnatural, but this may only be become I'm looking at it so intently. But if you ask me, that is definitely a mock up.
Why bother.
Just released: .78 in.)
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The size of a deck of cards (2.4 x 4 x
* 5gB HDD
* 10 hour bttery life
* 20 min skip protection
* COOL ASS intigration with iTunes2
* crossfader: automatically fades between songs. new equalizer button next to burn and eject buttons, with presets, 10 sliders plus a preamp slider
* built-in. fast -- entire CD download in under 10 seconds
* If you add songs or re-arrange playlists, iPod automatically updates
see: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0110/23.event
see: http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=10182
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It's only a model.