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Apple's Rumored PowerPod
mobilemag writes "MobileMag has released a photo of the new Apple PowerPod. This sounds like an amazing device! With Wi-Fi and video messaging, the powerpod could very well be a hot seller."
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Actually that link was wrong. It wasn't announced yet but that picture is leaked from Apple. They're hoping for a May-June release.
so now, instead of burning my left palm, i can burn my left thigh! (oohhh, that's kinda close...) :P
From the link: "Apple today announced the PowerPod, the world's smallest portable video and music player with integrated video and digital camera. The device can hold over 1,000 songs or 100 movies and will be available in the summer of 2004 for $699 from the Apple Store and Apple Authorized Resellers throughout the U.S. The PowerPod is a half-inch thick, encased in an ultra-portable lightweight durable body and is available in 20, 40 and 60GB models. The PowerPod features a hi-resolution 5 x 3.5-inch touch-screen LCD and a 1.2 megapixel integrated digital camera, users can record and view movies while on the go or perform wireless video messaging while connected via a WiFi network. The dual external speakers can be used for audio playback for movies or for private listening with an external headphone jack. It also features an integrated microphone for video conferencing. With a 400Mhz RISC processor the USB 2.0 and FireWire handheld runs on the new Mac OS Portable OS. Basically, a stripped down version with PDA and Video functionality intended primarily for Video recording and playback, instant messaging, web browsing, email and address book." As we can see from apple.com, no such 'PowerPod' exists. I've been waiting for a Newton replacement for years, but it's all a cruel joke today.
A swiss army knife and USB memory drive all in one. Very cool :)
Here are some other links.
Note that this was announced before 4/1.
This might be more funny if Mobilemag and its owners didn't have a less-than-stellar history that could be compared to Infinium Labs.
Don't reward Mobilemag with clickthroughs and traffic that they can use to gain advertisers and products. Mobilemag's owner Fabrizio Pilato has a history of being a dishonest scam artist.
The most recent example of Mobilemag dishonesty is posting a story to Slashdot as an anonymous reader that points to (surprise, surprise!) Mobilemag. Of course the post is written as if some third party who has nothing to do with the site submitted it.
Check Mobilemag's Recently Accepted Submissions history for the proof. The Slashdot scam is the least egregious of Mobilemag's sins.
If you need some background on Mobilemag.com, here's the skinny:
Mobilemag is the latest incarnation of TwoMobile (a.k.a. TwoMobile Guys), a pair of high school drop-outs who participated in a de facto fraud with the Canadian dotcom incubator NRG Group. NRG billed itself as a youth marketing research firm that used teenaged "CEOs" as gimmicks to get media attention. (Based on NRG/Mobilemag/TwoMobile activities, the investment waters in Toronto -- Canada's financial capital -- have been poisoned for serious businesses that have an Internet strategy as a key business component. This comes from a lawyer who brokers investment for technology-related companies.) The TwoMobile.com domain is now being redirected to Mobilemag.com.
The two teens used the investment money to buy all sorts of top-dollar toys and electronic equipment such as digital video cameras, pricey suits, etc., burned the cash away with parties, personal trips around the world, vacations and booze. They moved back in with their parents in small-town Ontario when the free ride was over and they ran out of money, and therefore couldn't afford to live in Toronto.
"I created a business where we can play with toys and go on trips!" Mobilemag owner Fabrizio Pilato said that to a Toronto newspaper about an earlier version of the site when he was asked about funding. In other words, he's a scam artist.
"We were sick of reviews that were really more like advertisements" is what the owners of Mobilemag was quoted as saying. His statement would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that Mobilemag is all about advertisements -- the site sells its coverage to manufacturers -- and pandering to the product manufacturers just to get more electronic toys for free.
So don't reward Mobilemag with clickthroughs and traffic that they can use to gain advertisers and products.
That $2000 bandwidth bill will be more than paid for by increasing their ad rates (for the larger audience) and by revenues from clickthroughs on existing ads.
No, you know it's a fake, because Apple has better designers than the guy who photoshoped this. It looks like crap.